Mystery & Detective - Traditional British

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Game of Snipers

Stephen Hunter

"Bob Lee Swagger is a true American literary icon."--Mark Greaney, New York Times Bestselling Author of Mission CriticalIn this blazing new thriller from Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Hunter, master sniper Bob Lee Swagger takes on his...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jul 2019

The Railway Viaduct

Edward Marston

As a train speeds over the Sankey Viaduct, the dead body of a man is hurled into the canal below. Inspector Robert Colbeck and Sergeant Victor Leeming take charge of their most complex and difficult case yet. Hampered by the fact that...

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Published: Sep 2007

Southampton Row (Thomas and Charlotte...

Anne Perry

A riveting new Thomas and Charlotte Pitt novel, in which Anne Perry again proves her mastery of the people, the mores, and the politics of the Victorian era she has made her own. A general election is approaching and Thomas is calle...

Unabridged CD
Published: Aug 2010

Snobbery with Violence

M. C. Beaton

When a marriage proposal appears imminent for the beautiful -- if rebellious -- Lady Rose Summer, her father wants to know if her suitor's intentions are honorable. He calls on Captain Harry Cathcart, the impoverished younger son of a...

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Published: Jan 2013

Dumb Witness: A BBC Full-Cast Radio D...

Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot receives a letter from a rich, elderly spinster, Miss Emily Arundell. She is clearly in great distress, but doesn't say why. Poirot persuades Captain Hastings that they must visit the lady with all haste. On arrival, th...

Abridged CD
Published: Jan 2010

Elephants Can Remember: A Hercule Poi...

Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot is determined to solve an old husband and wife double murder that is still an open verdict...Hercule Poirot stood on the cliff-top. For here, many years earlier, there had been a tragic accident -- the broken body of a ...

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Published: Nov 2011

Sheer Folly: A Daisy Dalrymple Myster...

Carola Dunn

In March of 1926, Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her friend and collaborator Lucy (a.k.a. Lady Gerald) head off for several days at stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country. Working on a book of follies (architectural...

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Published: Mar 2011

Gaudy Night: A Lord Peter Wimsey Myst...

Dorothy L. Sayers

p When Harriet Vane attends her Oxford reunion, known as the Gaudy, the prim academic setting is haunted by a rash of bizarre pranks: scrawled obscenities, burnt effigies, and poison-pen letters, including one that says, "Ask you...

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Published: Oct 2012

Missing, Presumed

Susie Steiner

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A page-turning mystery that brings to life a complex and strong-willed detective assigned to a high-risk missing persons caseNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • NAMED O...

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Published: Feb 2017

The Listerdale Mystery and Eleven Oth...

Agatha Christie

The curious disappearance of Lord Listerdale, a newlywed's fear of her ex-fiance, a strange encounter on a train, and a wild man's sudden personality change are just some of the twelve stories offered in this collection. Read by Hugh ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2006

Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importa...

Gyles Brandreth

One of Britain's premier royal biographers pens the first in a series of fiendishly clever and stylish historical murder mysteriesLovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked i...

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Published: Jan 2008

The Old Wine Shades (Richard Jury Mys...

Martha Grimes

'The dog came back.' 'This is a joke, right?' 'No, it isn't. . . . So do you want to hear the rest of it?' Dumbly, Jury nodded. The rest of it is told by Harry Johnson, a stranger who sits down next to Richard Jury as he's drinki...

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Published: Mar 2007

Dead Man's Mirror (Mystery Masters Se...

Agatha Christie

Poirot arrives for dinner at the country estate of the imperious Sir Gervase Chevenix-Gore to find his host in his study, shot dead. The room is locked, making it appear a suicide, but Poirot is skeptical. When the will is read, the s...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2003

A Very Private Enterprise (Felony & M...

Elizabeth Ironside

To his colleagues, co-workers and friends (did he have any real friends?), Hugo Frenchman was the consummate British civil servant. A bit dull, perhaps; a bit fussily fastidious, a bit of a stickler for protocol. But in the right posi...

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Published: Nov 2007

Hercule Poirot's Christmas: A BBC Ful...

Agatha Christie

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatization starring Peter Sallis as the great Belgian detective. Tyrannical millionaire Simeon Lee has been estranged from most of his family for years. But now, on Christmas Eve, the old man calls them all to...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jan 2011

A Presumption of Death: A New Lord Pe...

Jill Paton Walsh

Drawing on the events of "The Wimsey Papers," a tale set during the Blitz in 1940 London finds Lord Peter conducting secret business for the Foreign Office, while Harriet, caring for the family, is shocked by the murder of a...

Unabridged CD
Published: Mar 2003

The Case of the Poisoned Chocolates

Anthony Berkeley

Reissue of one of the great puzzle mystery classics of England's Golden Age of crime fiction; plot involves a group of upper-crust amateur sleuths who set out to solve a murder that has baffled Scotland Yard; catnip for fans of Agatha...

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Published: Jan 2010

The Fleet Street Murders (Charles Len...

Charles Finch

Called "absorbing" (Publishers Weekly) and "beguiling" (The New York Times Book Review), The Fleet Street Murders finds gentleman detective Charles Lenox investigating the mysterious, simultaneous deaths of two vet...

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Published: Jul 2010

Comeback

Dick Francis

New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Crime Fiction Foreign Office diplomat Peter Darwin uncovers a peculiar operation involving a veterinary surgeon and the unexplained deaths of several valuable racehorses.

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Published: Mar 2010

Busman's Honeymoon: A Full-Cast BBC R...

Dorothy L. Sayers

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...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2010

Sherlock Holmes in America

Martin Harry Greenberg

Just in time for Sherlock Holmes, the major motion picture starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law: the world's greatest fictional detective and his famous sidekick Dr. Watson are on their first trip across the Atlantic as they solve...

Paperback
Published: Nov 2009

The Monogram Murders CD: The New Herc...

Sophie Hannah

Hercule Poirot's quiet supper in a London coffeehouse is interrupted when a young woman confides to him that she is about to be murdered. She is terrified—but begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insi...

Unabridged CD
Published: Sep 2014

A Question of Proof

Nicholas Blake

Nigel Strangeways is called in to find a murderer who is prowling the halls of Sudeley Hall, a boys preparatory school. First published in 1935, this was the first mystery by C. Day-Lewis, the future English Poet Laureate.

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Published: Jun 2008

The Innocence of Father Brown Volume ...

G. K. Chesterton

Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular ways of dealing with crime. David Timson, having completed the whole of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon, a remarkable achievement, turns his hand to the genial but...

Unabridged CD
Published: Jun 2009

Murder on the Orient Express CD

Agatha Christie

"The murderer is with us—on the train now . . ."Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabb...

Unabridged CD
Published: May 2013

Put on by Cunning (Chief Inspector We...

Ruth Rendell

Sir Manual Camargue had just announced his intention of taking a second wife, 50 years his junior. On the same cold winter's day, he died as a result of what was surely a tragic accident. But Wexford doubts that Camargue's death came ...

Unabridged CD
Published: Oct 2014

Only the Innocent

Rachel Abbott

Every moment of Sir Hugo Fletcher’s life has been chronicled in the British press: his privileged upbringing, his high-profile charity work to end human trafficking — even his two marriages. But when the billionaire philanthropist...

Unabridged MP3-CD
Published: Feb 2013

The Decent Inn of Death: A John Madde...

Rennie Airth

"[Airth's] meticulously detailed procedural mysteries are beautifully written . . . well worth reading, and rereading." --Marilyn Stasio, The New York TimesSnowed in at a country manor, former Scotland Yard inspectors John M...

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Published: Jan 2020

Death of a Hussy

M. C. Beaton

About the best that can be said of wealthy Maggie Baird is that inside her middle-aged body, there still beats the heart of a beautiful tart. So when her car catches fire with Maggie in it, there are five likely suspects right on the ...

Paperback
Published: Sep 1991

Death of a Prankster

M. C. Beaton

Admittedly, there's a touch of black humor in the case. Rich, old practical joker Andrew Trent summons his kin to remote Arrat House in the dead of winter for a deathbed farewell. They arrive to find him in perfect health and eager to...

Paperback
Published: Jun 2012
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