This full-cast audio dramatization of Gaudy Night was specially recorded for BBC Radio. When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the 'Gaudy,' the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obs...

p Mystery novelist Harriet Vane, recovering from an unhappy love affair and its most unpleasant aftermath, seeks solace on a barren beach deserted but for one notable exception: the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut. Fro...

Ian Carmichael is Lord Peter Wimsey, with Patricia Routledge as his mother, in this BBC radio full-cast dramatization. Wimsey's mother has heard through a friend that Mr. Thipps, a respectable Battersea architect, found a dead man in ...

The New York Times Best Seller"[Hope Never Dies is] an escapist fantasy that will likely appeal to liberals pining for the previous administration, longing for the Obama-Biden team to emerge from political retirement as actio...

An exciting new historical mystery series featuring woman-on-the-run Elizabeth Miles--from the beloved national bestselling author of the Gaslight Mysteries.Like most women, Elizabeth Miles assumes many roles; unlike most, hers have m...

When the prompter falls dead during the second act of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre during a matinee performance at the Metropolitan Opera, as one can imagine, it causes quite a stir, especially when it is discovered that the dece...

Mark Twain is at his irreverent best with this hilarious parody of the 19th-century mystery. The tale begins with the murder of Flint Buckner and a heinous crime against a young woman. A man with special gifts―no less a personage th...

Who knew going home could be deadly? I will show them success. Artist Jill Madison repeats this mantra when she returns to her small hometown to restart her life. Hired to manage a new community art center, she vows to make it succ...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA December 2018 Indie Next PickOne of Kirkus Reviews' Best of 2018 PicksBookPage Best of the Year 2018 A LibraryReads Pick for November 2018A LibraryReads Hall of Fame WinnerWashington Post's 10 Boo...

This Christmas, lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, can't say no to helping young Danny and his dachshund, Murphy. Lawyer Andy Carpenter and his wife, Laurie, have started a new Christmas tradition. Their local pet ...

An urgent cry for help brings Hercule Poirot to France, but he arrives too late to save his client, whose brutally stabbed body now lies face down in a shallow grave on a golf course. But why is the dead man wearing his son's overcoat...

No one is surprised when the seductive Arlena Marshall is found strangled to death at the Jolly Roger hotel, and it is up to master sleuth Hercule Poirot to unravel the web of evil that surrounded her and shrouded each hotel guest wit...

A brilliant spy story by the queen of mystery. To help the British war effort in 1940, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford take on assumed identities to uncover Nazi informers who have infiltrated British armed forces and intelligence. They ...

"[A] magic kingdom of Victorian murder and intrigue."—The New York Times Book Review  Thomas Pitt is now the powerful head of Britain's Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilit...

A lovely but murderous spring follows the quiet, snowbound winter in this addition to the long-running mystery series featuring Hamish Macbeth, a constable in the Scottish Highlands. Lochdubh newcomer Effie Garrard, discovered next to...

With private security firms supplying bodyguards in every theatre of war, who will notice the emergence of a sexual psychopath from the ranks of the mercenaries? When five women are brutally murdered in Sierra Leone, Reuters correspon...

When Rex Fortescue falls dead after taking a sip of his midday tea, it is obvious to most that his drink was poisoned. But when rye is found in one of his pockets, the reasons are not so obvious. Miss Marple must dissect an old nurser...

Published only a month before Rex Stout's death, this case is regarded as one of the author's truest. When Nero Wolfe's favorite waiter is murdered in an explosion just feet from him, the detective takes it as a personal affront and ...

Hercule Poirot arrives at The Hollow for a weekend luncheon just in time to see Gerda Christow standing, revolver in hand, over the body of her husband. It seems obvious that she has killed her wayward spouse, but Poirot doesn't belie...

Moments after Hercule Poirot leaves his dentist, Mr. Morley, the poor man is found dead with a bullet hole in his head. That he committed suicide is apparent to all, except, of course, to Poirot, who immediately suspects foul play.

The Leonides are one big happy family living in a sprawling, ramshackle mansion. That is until the head of the household, Aristide, is murdered with a fatal barbiturate injection. Suspicion naturally falls on the old man's young wido...

When a local woman tells Sergeant Hamish Macbeth that she doesn't remember what happened the previous evening, he doesn't begin to worry. She had been out drinking, after all, and he'd prefer not to be bothered with such an arrogant a...

Sherlock Holmes is dead. Days after Holmes and his arch-enemy Moriarty fall to their doom at the Reichenbach Falls, Pinkerton agent Frederick Chase arrives in Europe from New York. The death of Moriarty has created a poisonous vacuum ...

A millionaire's been found stabbed in the back on his private golf course. Hercule Poirot finds no shortage of suspects in the victim's family tree, but even he is surprised when the killer strikes again.

Agatha Bunson desperately wanted to fire the cook at her boarding house but her father's will made that impossible. Then someone very kindly murdered the cook. Agatha, who was given to sleepwalking, thought she might have done the dee...

The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature's most popular creations. Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers' charming investigator in this BBC Radio full-cast dramatiza...

A collection of mystery stories featuring the Tuesday Night Club illustrates the sleuthing talents of elderly spinster Miss Jane Marple, who solves the most intricate of crimes with the same methodical approach she applies to her knit...

Normally, a mere outbreak of petty thefts in a youth hostel wouldn't be enough to interest the great detective Hercule Poirot. However, the warden of the hostel is sister to Poirot's secretary Miss Lemon, and concern for her sister is...

Lord Peter Wimsey Clears the Family Name in this Classic Mystery! In Clouds of Witness, murder strikes close to home. Lord Peter is on vacation when he hears that a dead body has been found at the Wimsey family retreat, and that Lor...

In addition to the title story, in which a nightmare may hold a terrifying premonition, this collection includes The Haunted Policeman, which features a house numbered thirteen on a street of even numbers; and Talboys, in which one of...