Traditional Detectives

DI Tom Janssen is currently suspended pending the outcome of the events at the close of his previous case. Using the time away from the office to consider his future, and how this will impact on his family life, Tom is invited to attend a school reunion which he reluctantly agrees to.

The windswept shores of Norfolk may look peaceful, but dark secrets fester beneath the surface. As the seasons turn, so too does the tide of crime, and DI Tom Janssen must face new and chilling investigations.

A cozy crime series set in gorgeous Tuscany. It's murder in paradise....

The Josephine Tey Collection includes unabridged recordings of all 6 of the novels in the Inspector Alan Grant series....

Three gripping crime fiction thrillers featuring DCI Whitney Walker and forensic psychologist Dr. Georgina Cavendish: Deadly Games, Fatal Justice, and Death Track....

Nestled high in the Tuscan hills lies Villa Volpone, home to renowned crime writer Jonah Moore and his creative writing course. It’s also the last place retired DCI Dan Armstrong expected to spend his retirement....

Firefighters race to put out a blaze at a remote farmhouse. They discover two young girls alone in the house. Their mother is gone, and in her place is the dead body of a man, frozen naked in the fetal position. Two chess pieces made of ice have been left on the doorstep....

Baking. It can get a guy killed. When a retired detective superintendent chooses to take a culinary tour of the British Isles, he hopes to find tasty treats and delicious bakes...what he finds is a clue to a crime in the ingredients for his pork pie....

When a revered sports legend falls victim to a brutal home invasion, a nation is shaken to its core. Outrage swells and the press and powers that be demand answers.

Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison has moved up the ranks, fighting every step of the way to break through Scotland Yard's glass ceiling. Now, on her first day as the head of the Vice Squad, a high-profile case threatens to destroy everything she has worked for....

DCI Tom Raven’s hopes for a few quiet days with his daughter, Hannah, are shattered when a shocking murder plunges him into a macabre mystery in the nearby coastal town of Whitby. In the hallowed grounds of the ruined abbey, a man lies lifeless....

Here is the world's first ever fully dramatised Sherlock Holmes canon: 56 short stories and 4 novels, all made by the same team of directors, producers, dramatists and leading actors, and packed with the high production qualities of a film or TV drama that set it apart....

For decades, the peaceful village of Windridge has harboured dark mysteries, whispers of ancient rituals, and hidden crimes.

DCI Jane Tennison came through the ranks the hard way, opposed and resented at every step by her male colleagues....

There are two sides to every story, the truth and the lies… Twenty years ago, two women from the village of Parton, vanished, sending shock waves through the tranquil seaside Cumbria community.

The new Kings Lake Central murder squad is about to spend its first morning on team-building exercises and reviewing cold cases when the call comes in that the body of one of the city's rough sleepers has been found in a shop doorway.

Early one morning, DI Clare Mackay receives a message from her boss, DCI Alastair Gibson, telling her to meet him in secret. She does as he asks and is taken to a secure location in the remote Scottish hills....

Sam Earnshaw’s recovery from a year-long coma should be an occasion for celebration. Instead, he reveals that the hit and run incident that left him close to death was no accident. Someone deliberately pushed him into the path of a speeding vehicle....

When DCI Freya Bloom and DI Ben Savage are called to an abandoned farmhouse in Billinghay, Lincolnshire, they expect the worst. The caller to emergency services had reported finding a man’s body.

DI Fenella Sallow has retreated to her work, escaping the trauma of the last case, when a strange man is found dead in the ruins of an ancient castle.

When a body is found draped over Swanage’s iconic Globe monument, DCI Lesley Clarke is called in. A message points to the motive: Go Home. Is this a hate crime? Or something closer to home?

Fine-art aficionado. Master of disguise. Jewelry expert. Historian. Gentleman. Burglar. Arsene Lupin is all of these and more....

Paul Temple swings into the '60s with five complete radio dramas featuring the writer-cum-amateur detective and his wife, Steve, plus bonus archive material....

Historian Jaya Jones receives a mysterious package and discovers the secrets of a lost Indian treasure may be hidden in a Scottish legend. But she's not the only one on the trail....

High in the mountains stands the magnificent Saracen fortress, home of the mysterious Mr. Oberon, leader of a coven of witches....

Poirot’s peace is disturbed when a local gentleman, Roger Ackroyd, is found murdered in his study. Clues include a vanished letter, a scrap of cambric cloth, a goose quill, and an elaborately tooled Tunisian dagger. We follow Poirot, aided by the village doctor, James Sheppard, as he traces his way through a tangle of suspects that include Ackroyd’s sister-in-law, niece, secretary, adopted son, and housemaids—all of whom appear to have motives for killing him.

Til en ungdomsfest praler den unge Joyce Reynolds af at have været vidne til en forbrydelse: ”Jeg så et mord,” siger hun … Hercule Poirot tror dog ikke på hendes historie. Og heller ingen andre tror tilsyneladende på hende, men det koster hende livet, og da festen er slut, finder man hendes lig. Poirot bliver overtalt til at påtage sig opklaringen, og han opdager snart, at livet i denne lille forstad til London ikke er nær så fredeligt som først antaget.

Meet DCI Lesley Clarke. She’s a straight-talking city copper who doesn’t suffer fools gladly… and she’s been transferred to rural Dorset. After being injured in a bomb attack, Lesley is presented with a choice — early retirement, or a period of respite in a calmer location. But things don’t stay calm for long. Before she’s even started her new job, Lesley is dragged into investigating a murder at one of England’s most iconic landmarks, the imposing Corfe Castle.

Het is 1799. Als rekruut van het Britse leger belandt Sharpe in India, waar hij het moet opnemen tegen een lokale potentaat, de Tippoo van Mysore, een man die zich steeds laat omringen door tijgers. Maar het gevaar schuilt niet alleen in vijandige rangen. Sharpe's gevaarlijkste tegenstander is sergeant Hakeswill, zijn meerdere.

Frankrijk, Gascogne, de 14de eeuw. Thomas van Hookton is een uitzonderlijk begaafde boogschutter in het leger van de Engelse koning Edward. Thomas redt een jonge vrouw van de brandstapel en wordt daardoor beschuldigd van de misdaad die voor haar tot de doodstraf leidde: ketterij. Thomas en Vrouwe Geneviève slaan op de vlucht. Heel ver wegvluchten wil Thomas echter níet, want in Gascogne hoopt hij de moordenaar van zijn vader te vinden.

Thóras klient Markús Magnússons barndomshjem er et af de huse, der skal graves ud, men han har gjort indsigelse og forlangt at få lov til at gå alene ned i husets kælder, inden arkæologerne tager fat. I kælderen ligger et hoved og ligene af tre mænd, der er blevet banket til døde. Markús' veninde findes snart efter død i sit hjem. Det formodede selvmord viser sig hurtigt at være mord, og de to mordgåder flettes nu sammen i en forrygende opbygget intrige.

Gereon Rath, en ung, desillusioneret kriminalassistent fra Køln, bliver overflyttet til Berlin, efter at han i selvforsvar har dræbt en psykopatisk massemorder. I Berlin opdager han liget af en mand i en bil i floden Spree. Offeret, en russer, er helt tydeligt blevet både tortureret og myrdet, før han blev kørt i vandet. Inden Rath når at se sig om, er han dybt involveret i at optrevle en kontrarevolutionær plan om at smugle guld for en værdi af 80 millioner rigsmark fra det kommunistiske Rusland til Berlin.

Карр заманивает читателя в сети ловко расставленных ловушек, ложных подсказок, обманных ходов и тонких намеков и предлагает принять участие в решении хитроумной головоломки. В настоящем сборнике представлены романы «Убийства единорога», Убийства в стиле Джуди и Панча и «Десять чайных чашек, или Убийство павлиньими перьями», которые продолжают серию о великолепном сэре Генри Мерривейле — обаятельном, эксцентричном, взбалмошном толстяке, ставшем, по признанию критиков, одним из самых неординарных сыщиков в детективной литературе.

Der sker mærkelige ting på plejehjemmet Ömheten: Et mystisk indbrud efterfulgt af et dødsfald vækker mistanke hos den pensionerede politimand Tore Lindahl. På Norrtelje Dagblad keder ferieafløseren, journalist Veronika Wiklund, sig, så da Tore kontakter hende om sin mistanke, begynder de straks at efterforske sagen sammen. Dødsfaldet på Ömheten fører dem ind i et virvar af forbrydelser. Spørgsmålene vokser i takt med, at de graver dybere i sagen.

Когда Джорджа Эббершоу приглашают на уик-энд в Блэк-Дадли, он видит в этом шанс сделать предложение Мегги Олифант. Но безобидное развлечение гостей превращается в смертельную игру, и поиск преступника теперь занимает Джорджа больше, чем будущая помолвка.

It’s Tamsyn Poldhu’s first day as a police constable in her home town of Penzance in Cornwall. She already knows that life can be cruel, but she has no idea how tough it’s going to be. Detective Inspector Rob Rego has just transferred to the coastal southwest from Greater Manchester Police, and he gets seasick just looking at a boat. When a body washes up on a remote Cornish beach, Tamsyn’s involvement in the case goes deeper than she could ever have imagined.

Карр заманивает читателя в сети ловко расставленных ловушек, ложных подсказок, обманных ходов и тонких намеков и предлагает принять участие в решении хитроумной головоломки. Вниманию читателей предлагается роман Окно Иуды, один из самых известных в творчестве Карра, а также романы Смерть в пяти коробках и Читатель предупрежден, в которых мы снова встретимся с обаятельным и эксцентричным сэром Генри Мерривейлом, по признанию критиков одним из самых неординарных сыщиков в детективной литературе.

Het leven van fysiotherapeut Harold Daver stort in wanneer zijn ex-vrouw wordt vermoord en hij de belangrijkste verdachte is. Slechts drie maanden na zijn huwelijk raakt Harold verstrikt in een gepassioneerde affaire met zijn patiënte Isabelle Vald, een Argentijnse danseres. Hij ziet nog maar één uitweg: een tanguero worden, een man die in de danssalon zijn lot vindt terwijl hij zijn grote liefde stevig tegen zich aan drukt.

Hoewel de politie de dood van Angela als zelfdoding beschouwt, hebben zowel ex-marinier Ray Sola, verantwoordelijk voor Integrale Veiligheid binnen de gemeente, als Angela's echtgenoot hun twijfels. Angela's man vertrouwt Ray een bijna onleesbaar memo toe, samen met een tas vol geheime documenten. Terwijl Ray dieper in Angela's verleden graaft, ontdekt hij dat ze een gevaarlijk dubbelleven leidde. Dit vormt het begin van een complexe en intrigerende zoektocht naar de waarheid achter Angela's dood en de geheimen die ze met zich meedroeg.

Золотой век детектива подарил нам множество звездных имен. Произведения таких писателей, как Агата Кристи, Гилберт Честертон, Эрл Стэнли Гарднер, Рекс Стаут, развивали и совершенствовали детективный жанр, их романы, безоговорочно признанные классикой, по сей день любимы читателями и являются эталоном качества для последующих поколений авторов детективных историй. Почетное место в этой плеяде по праву принадлежит Джону Диксону Карру (1906–1977) — виртуозному мастеру идеально построенных «невозможных преступлений в запертой комнате».

When a body turns up on the grounds of Liggan Manor, Malachite Peck is called in. The lady of the manor swears her family has nothing to do with it—and she wants Mal to prove it. Mal isn't convinced, but with too much time on her hands, she agrees. What starts as a simple case quickly unravels into a tangle of family secrets, a whispered new will, and a surprising new heir no one saw coming. As generations clash over the sprawling estate, another second body is discovered, and it's clear—a killer is hunting the Liggan heirs one by one. Now, Malachite is in a race against time.

Карр вовлекает читателя в сети ловко расставленных ловушек, обманных ходов и тонких намеков и предлагает принять участие в решении хитроумной головоломки. Захватывающее путешествие во времени, сделка с дьяволом и романтическая любовная история сочетаются с расследованием загадочного преступления, которое произошло несколько веков назад, в эпоху поздней Реставрации.

Головокружительное расследование убийства, жертва которого обнаружена в тумане недалеко от знаменитой лондонской улицы. В числе подозреваемых оказываются представители родовитой британской аристократии, и детектив Даукер едва не отправляет на виселицу невиновного.

Der Farbenhändler im Ruhestand ist eine der 56 Sherlock-Holmes-Erzählungen des britischen Schriftstellers Sir Arthur Conan Doyle und außerdem ist sie eine der 12 Geschichten aus dem gesammelten Zyklus Sherlock Holmes’ Buch der Fälle. - Sherlock Holmes ist von einem pensionierten Farbenhändler, Josiah Amberley aus Lewisham, engagiert worden, um im Fall des Verschwindens seiner Frau zu ermitteln. Sie hat ihn mit einem Nachbarn, Dr. Ernest Ray, und einer beträchtlichen Menge an Geld und Wertpapieren verlassen. Amberley fordert, dass Holmes die beiden aufspürt.

Der auf Gut Shoscombe lebende Reiter Sir Robert Norberton muss das nächste Rennen unbedingt gewinnen, weil er durch die Abhängigkeit von seiner Schwester, Lady Beatrice, in finanziellen Nöten ist. Außerdem berichtet der Pferdetrainer Mason, dass Norberton nachts eine alte Gruft aufsuchte. Nach einigen Untersuchungen vor Ort überraschen Holmes und Watson den Reiter in der Gruft. Er erklärt ihnen, dass seine Schwester eine Woche vor dem wichtigen Rennen gestorben sei, womit der Nießbrauch des Gutes endete.

In this newly unearthed journal, Sherlock Holmes offers his own account of the dark events on Dartmoor, with annotations by Mycroft Holmes. An investigation shadowed by secrets, moral ambiguity, and dangers Watson chose not to reveal. As Holmes navigates the spectral legends, a brooding landscape, and the troubled Baskerville legacy, the case proves more complex, and more human, than you the listener ever knew.

Der Winter rückt näher. Und nachdem zwei Bergwanderer in der berüchtigten Höllerklamm eine grausige Entdeckung machen, nimmt das Unheil Fahrt auf. Eine Serie bizarrer Morde versetzt die Menschen der kleinen Dorfgemeinschaft in Angst. Bald kommt es zu gegenseitigen Verdächtigungen. Und das schreckliche Ungeheuer aus einer uralten Tiroler Legende, das in früheren Jahrhunderten regelmäßig Menschenopfer forderte, scheint zum Leben erwacht zu sein.

Holmes lebt an der Küste von Sussex, als er mit dem rätselhaften Tod des Lehrers McPherson konfrontiert wird. Der Mann lag tot am Ufer und hatte rote Striemen auf dem Rücken. Seine unverständlichen letzten Worte waren "die Löwenmähne". Während der Ermittlungen erleidet der Hauptverdächtige Murdoch die gleichen Wunden wie McPherson. In John George Woods Buch Out of Doors findet Holmes den Mörder: die auch unter dem Namen Löwenmähne bekannte Qualle Cyanea Capillata, die Gelbe Haarqualle.

This wide-ranging collection of stories takes Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson from their cozy rooms in London, to exploring England's bucolic Lake District, to clambering up an extinct volcano in Scotland. There is murder on the Thames, a spectacularly unpleasant Lord finds himself on the wrong end of a carving knife at the legendary Simpson's-in-the-Strand restaurant, and the brutal slaying of the brilliant Hypatia of Alexandria in 415 CE may finally be solved.

Trevor Bennett hat beobachtet, wie sich sein Chef Presbury, Professor für vergleichende Anatomie, in bestimmten Nächten seltsam verhält. Der Wissenschaftler bewegt sich in nach vorne gebeugter Haltung und klettert an Wänden hoch. Außerdem wird er von seinem Hund angegriffen, wie Holmes und Watson selbst sehen. Die Erklärung liefert ein nur an Languren getestetes Medikament, das der Professor als Jungbrunnen nutzen wollte, um auf eine junge Frau interessanter zu wirken.