Performance Mystery

Available only in audio, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - Makers, Mysteries and Magic lifts the lid on the moviemaking secrets behind the latest installment in J.K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts series. Narrator Dan Fogler (who plays No-Maj Jacob Kowalski) will guide you through the process of creating the magical on-screen world and explore the story, themes, and characters of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.

Once a privileged heiress, Annabelle Ross is now struggling to hold her home and her life together through the devastation of the War Between the States. But with a forced marriage and a desolate future on the horizon, her hopes are beginning to dwindle. When she discovers an encrypted note on a dying soldier, she seizes the opportunity to use it to deliver a message of her own. Instead, she’s mistaken for a spy and captured. Can she unravel a conspiracy before her secrets cost a man his life? The complete trilogy of exciting Accidental Spy novels.

A murder on stage. Her father a prime suspect. Can an amateur sleuth step into the limelight and find the killer before the final curtain falls? Dotty Sayers and her cat, Earl Grey, are anxious about visiting her parents in Edinburgh, Scotland. When Dotty and her father accept a stranger’s VIP tickets to a Fringe Festival play, they discover more than the best seats in the house. On stage for the first act, Dotty hears a shot in the dark and presumes it’s part of the script. So she’s shocked when a spotlight illuminates a controversial politician’s dead body. Befriended by a local ...

Having inexplicably nabbed the duke of Kesgrave, 26-year-old spinster Beatrice Hyde-Clare is determined to marry him at once, and no amount of hand-wringing from anxious family members, worried friends, and well-meaning acquaintances will convince her to delay. Except, maybe, she is a little swayed by her uncle’s efforts to make amends for treating her with cold indifference during her childhood.

Amid the grim realities of wartime Britain, inside during the blackout hidden from the tatters left by the Blitz, glitz and glamour live onstage in the West End. But at one theater, The Regent, a malevolent force is causing escalating problems. Sabotage, damage and injury feed mistrust among the cast and crew.

A beautifully written, evocative literary page-turner about a brilliant nineteenth-century female pianist from Poland lost to history and another woman’s quest to ensure she is not forgotten—with a shocking twist of a finale. Clara Bishop hasn’t touched a piano since a concert hall fire...

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She was meant to fly. Instead, she fell. When celebrated ballerina Alina Novikova collapses mid-performance of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake at New York’s Lincoln Center, the world mourns what appears to be a tragic end to a legendary career. But journalist Luna Moreno isn’t convinced. What Luna witnessed that night didn’t feel like an accident. In her fifth investigation, Luna takes us into the elite world of ballet, where perfection is everything, pain is hidden behind beauty, and the pressure to perform pushes bodies—and minds—beyond their limits. As she digs deeper, she uncovers ...

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre presents Robert E. Howard's tale of horrors in Eastern Europe in a 1930s-style radio drama. Charlie Tower seeks refuge from the horrors of the Great War in Berlin's most notorious nightclubs. There a chain of events is set in motion that will lead him across Europe to investigate the mysterious Black Stone. Is it merely a creation of superstitious peasants, or is it a nexus for hideous gods of the ancient world to set foot into ours?

The door to magic is closed, but it’s not locked. And now Joshua Jay, one of the world’s most accomplished magicians, not only opens that door but brings us inside to reveal the artistry and obsessiveness, esoteric history, and long-whispered-about traditions of a subject shrouded in mystery...

As Sherlock Holmes takes the stage, who is moving in the shadows? London, September 1901. William Gillette is performing the detective Arthur Conan Doyle created, but cannot escape. Two rows ahead sits Henry Cyril Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey: the Dancing Marquess, famous for his jewels, his private theatres, his perfume-exhaust motorcar, and a life lived as dazzlingly as a performance. By morning, Henry’s jewels will be gone. But a shock confession is only the beginning of the mystery. Told in three voices, Arthur Conan Doyle and the Dancing Marquess is a literary historical mystery ...

When a theatre troupe invades Harper Lane’s bookstore for rehearsals, the bookseller expects drama, not death. But when the show’s demanding star, Victoria Chase, collapses mid-monologue, Harper and her trusty dog Watson smell the distinct scent of poison. The police ruled it a heart attack. Harper knows it’s murder. Was it the ambitious understudy, too eager to step into the spotlight? Or the brooding lighting technician, cousin to a vanished actress, whose margin notes read like blueprints for murder? Victoria Chase bullied everyone, earning boos behind the curtain, not sympathy. ...

Investigating a crime seemingly unconnected to the Royal Family, Holmes & Watson uncover a conspiracy to kidnap Queen Victoria and destabilise the British Empire. With a ticking clock to her next public engagement, Holmes and Watson must discover who is behind the plot and locate her majesty, while Mycroft tries to keep the monarch’s disappearance a secret from the British people. At first, Holmes believes Moriarty is responsible for the abduction, but when the Napoleon of Crime is proved innocent, Holmes must work with his arch-nemesis to rescue the Queen.

Murder on an Island is a captivating murder mystery set on a secluded island off the coast of New England during the vibrant 1920s. This novel by Maxwell Hastings immerses readers in the intriguing world of high society and hidden secrets. Laura Kitteredge, a once-celebrated actress now shunned due to her engagement to the infamous James Stephenson, is invited to perform in a charity play on the Island. The island, beautiful yet isolated, becomes the perfect backdrop for a series of mysterious events and simmering tensions among the cast. As rehearsals begin, underlying jealousies and ...

One minute, my favorite pop star, Lizzie Lizard was on stage right in front of me, and in the next minute, she was passed out in front of the whole audience. They say that it was an accident, but in all my years of detective work, I've discovered there are no such things as coincidences. No one gets away with hurting my favorite singer.

The show must go on—but in Bloomsville, murder always steals the spotlight. When the Briar Rose Playhouse joins forces with a traveling troupe for Alice in Wonderland, Grace is ready to cheer on the town’s latest production—until a shocking death on opening night turns the whimsical show into a full-blown investigation. With her estranged brother Daniel among the cast and quickly cast as a prime suspect, Grace teams up with forensic specialist Chloe, baker Tom, coroner Oscar —and her loyal Westie, Rosie, whose nose for trouble is sharper than ever. As secrets unravel backstage and ...

TAP THE POWER OF YOUR SUBCONCSIOUS MIND TO ACCOMPLISH MORE IN LESS TIME, AND DO A BETTER JOB IN THE PROCESS! This audio program will bring you positive messaging embedded in four tracks by top New Age musicians. The specially created music will assist you in focusing your attention as subliminal...

What happens when you lose the thing that matters most? Ella Parker's life seems like a fairytale. At only twenty years old, she is a rockstar, the founder of an up-and-coming music school, and planning a wedding to the world's most eligible bachelor, Jackson Montgomery. But when a suspicious accident turns Ella's darkest nightmare into reality, her fairytale ending crumbles. Forced to face the future without Jack by her side, she is thrust into a cutthroat business arena. Alone. With rumors and accusations swirling around her and the paparazzi dogging her every step, Ella finds herself ...

An inspiring, revelatory exploration of the genesis and impact of the fabled Elephant 6 collective and the baffling exodus of its larger-than-life luminary, Neutral Milk Hotel frontman Jeff Mangum Years after its release, Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea remains one of the...

Peter Wagner is an orthopedic surgeon beginning a one-year Sports Medicine fellowship in Tulsa, Louisiana. There he meets Heather Jackson, the Sports Information Director for the number one ranked college football team in the nation - the Tulsa Valley Tarpons. Dr. Wagner is immediately captivated by the pre-season spectacle of a team predicted to win the national championship. He immerses himself into the team’s daily routine, including a stay at their remote summer camp on the bayou, under the watchful eye of head coach Buford B. Hayes. Coach Hayes played for the Tarpons fifty years ago ...