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Chambers of Death: A Medieval Mystery...

Priscilla Royal

When one of her company falls ill on a return journey to Tyndal, Prioress Eleanor accepts lodging at a nearby manor. There, Master Stevyns s wife is having an affair with the groom, while a local widow acts more like the lady of the m...

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Published: Aug 2009

Whose Body? (Lord Peter Wimsey Myster...

Dorothy L. Sayers

Meet Lord Peter Wimsey, stylish, eccentric, seeming a fool, but in fact one of the great English detectives. The discovery of a body in a bathtub wearing only a pair of spectacles, launches a motley set of sleuths and suspects toward ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2005

Good Morning, Killer

April Smith

FBI Special Agent Ana Gray returns in this complex, involving thriller about a dedicated officer's search for a serial rapist that proceeds alongside her passionate and obsessive love affair with a fellow cop, Santa Monica detective A...

Abridged CD
Published: Apr 2003

Dead in the Water (Kate Shugak Series...

Dana Stabenow

Once, Kate Shugak was the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A,'s office. Now she's gone back to her Aleut roots in the far Alaska north - where her talent for detection makes her the toughest crime-tracker in that stark and mysteri...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2012

The Comedy is Finished

Donald E. Westlake

The year is 1977, and America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam and the national hangover that was the 1960s. But not everyone is ready to let it go. Not aging comedian Koo Davis, friend to generals and p...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2012

Swimming to Catalina (Stone Barringto...

Stuart Woods

[Read by Tony Roberts] In Swimming to Catalina, ex-cop-turned-Manhattan-attorney and investigator Stone Barrington is back, still smarting from his sudden breakup with brilliant, beautiful magazine writer Arrington Carrington, who ha...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2016

The Black Dahlia

James Ellroy

Bonus feature includes an original afterword by James Ellroy, titled 'Hillikers,' read by Stephen Hoye.On January 15, 1947, the torture-ravished body of a beautiful young woman is found in a vacant lot. The victim makes headlines as t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2006

44 Scotland Street

Alexander McCall Smith

44 Scotland Street' is vintage McCall Smith, tackling issues of trust and honesty, snobbery and hypocrisy, love and loss, but all with great lightness of touch. Clever, elegant and funny, this is an audiobook that provides huge entert...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2005

Agatha Raisin: The Quiche of Death & ...

M. C. Beaton

The Quiche of Death - Struggling to adapt to life in a Cotswold village after a lifetime spent in Public Relations, Agatha Raisin determines to make her mark by winning the local baking competition. When the judge is poisoned by her e...

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Published: Sep 2009

Christine Falls

Benjamin Black

Fresh off his Man Booker prize-winning THE SEA, John Banville has donned the pseudonym of Benjamin Black and dipped into the dark waters of crime fiction. His protagonist is a Dublin pathologist named Quirke who, in the aftermath of h...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2007

Death Comes As the End (Mystery Maste...

Agatha Christie

A newly widowed woman returns to her father’s house in ancient Egypt, where she finds sudden death lurking behind every corner after the murder of her father’s manipulative and scheming concubine. Read by Emilia Fox. Book ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2006

Torpedo Juice

Tim Dorsey

The drinks are on Sunshine State historian/spree killer Serge A. Storms, who's decided it's high time he got married. So he's motoring down to the Florida Keys -- the ultimate end of the line -- in search of Ms. Right . . . and fi...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2005

Bangkok Tattoo

John Burdett

Sonchai Jitpleecheep, a deeply spiritual Bangkok police detective maintaining his unique sense of integrity within a corrupt system, returns in this violently farcical, twisty sequel to the bestselling and equally outrageous BANGKOK 8...

Abridged CD
Published: May 2005

Looks to Die for

Janice Kaplan

A smart and sassy heroine makes her debut in a stylish new mystery series from the bestselling co-author of 'The Botox Diaries' and 'Mine Are Spectacular!'Lacy Fields is the wife of a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon, a dedicat...

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Published: Feb 2007

Beastly Things: A Commissario Guido B...

Donna Leon

When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing–person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. Where...

Unabridged CD
Published: Apr 2012

My Name Is Red

Orhan Pamuk

At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the power of art, My Name Is Red is a transporting tale set amid the splendor and religious intrigue of sixteenth-century Istanbul, from one of...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2008

The Best American Mystery Stories 200...

Lawrence Block

The acclaimed author of Hit List serves as guest editor for this new collection of the finest mystery tales of the year, in an anthology that incorporates pieces of short fiction by Joyce Carol Oates, T. Jefferson Parker, Russell Bank...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2001

Colonel Warburton's Madness & Other M...

Anthony Boucher

From 1939-1946 Americans gathered around their radio to listen to 'The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' featuring Basil Rathbone as the high-strung crime-solver and Nigel Bruce as his phlegmatic assistant, Dr. Watson.Witty, fast-pac...

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Published: Sep 2004

Endless Night: A BBC Full-Cast Radio ...

Agatha Christie

Mike Rogers dreamed that, as an adult, he'd have a beautiful wife and a beautiful home, his reward for a turbulent early life. When he meets Ellie Gutman at Gypsy's Acre, suddenly it is all within his grasp. However, things are not as...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2010

Blood Rain: An Aurelio Zen Mystery (A...

Michael Dibdin

Michael Dibdin's diffidently honest Italian policeman Aurelio Zen has got the posting he always dreaded—he has been sent to Sicily, home of the Mafia, in a nondescript liaison job. The discovery of an unidentified, decomposed corpse...

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Published: Mar 2011

Cape Perdido

Marcia Muller

Amid ancient redwoods and sun-dappled reeds, the Perdido River runs clear and cold from the mountains of Soledad County to the blue Pacific. A wildlife refuge and a pristine recreational area, the river brings tourists to the old lumb...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2005

Instruments of Darkness

Imogen Robertson

An intricate historical novel about a forbidding country estate and the unlikely forensic duo who set out to uncover its deadly secrets.

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2011

The Godfather Returns: The Saga of th...

Mark Winegardner

A sanctioned sequel to Mario Puzo's blockbuster novel, The Godfather, continues the saga of the Corleone family, beginning in 1955 and recounting the events that occurred between the end of the original novel and the episodes chronicl...

Abridged CD
Published: Nov 2004

The Mystery of the Blue Train: A BBC ...

Agatha Christie

A BBC full-cast radio drama starring Maurice Denham as the great Belgian detective. A millionaire strikes a deal on the seedier side of Paris and gives to his heartsick daughter, Ruth Kettering, the "Heart of Fire," one of t...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2010

Paul Temple and the Front Page Men (B...

Francis Durbridge

Crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve made their first appearance on BBC Radio in 1938. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wor...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2011

The Best American Mystery Stories 200...

James Ellroy

The acclaimed author of L.A. Confidential and American Tabloid serves as guest editor for this new collection of the finest mystery tales of the year, in an anthology that incorporates pieces of short fiction by Robert B. Parker, Joyc...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2002

Second Wind

Dick Francis

The catastrophic power of a giant hurricane can raise coastal waves thirty feet high and blow through houses at devastating speeds. For TV meteorologist Perry Stuart, however, such predictions are generally hypothetical, as he chiefly...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2008

Return of the Thin Man

Dashiell Hammett

Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett's last-and most successful-novel. Following the enormous success of "The Thin Man" movie in 1934, Hammett was commis...

Unabridged CD
Published: Nov 2012

A Sea of Troubles: A Commissario Guid...

Donna Leon

Donna Leon has amassed devoted fans around the world for her atmospheric and intelligent Commissario Brunetti series. A Sea of Troubles offers a rare glimpse into the scrupulous Commissario's personal life. When Brunetti investigates ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Feb 2012

Djibouti

Elmore Leonard

New York Times bestselling author Elmore Leonard brings his trademark wit and inimitable style to this twisting, gripping—and sometimes playful—tale of modern-day piracy Dara Barr, documentary filmmaker, is at the top of her game...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2010
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