Showing results by publisher "HarperCollins" in Cosy

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. When Mr. Satterthswaite visits a new exhibit at the Harchester Galleries there is one painting with a male figure that bares a more than unusual likeness to a mysterious acquaintance of his, a Mr. Quin...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. A medium agrees to perform one last seance before retiring. But even she could not have anticipated the chain of events that it...

A classic winter’s crime novel by one of the most highly regarded exponents of the genre. Victor Harleston awoke with uncharacteristic optimism. Today he would be rich at last. Half an hour later, he gulped down his breakfast coffee and pitched to the floor, gasping and twitching. When the...

A classic crime novel by one of the most highly regarded exponents of the genre. The murder of old Mr Fransham while washing his hands in his niece’s cloakroom was one of the most astounding problems that ever confronted Scotland Yard. Not only was there a policeman in the house at the time...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. Mrs Lancaster doesn’t believe in ghosts. She moves her family into a house that has been derelict for years, unconcerned about the story of the young boy who lived...

Sleigh bells ring. Snow is glistening. A body's in the trunk – did you kill him? Ella Chambers didn’t kill Liam Montgomery. If she had, she wouldn’t have done it outside his family’s mansion during their Christmas party. She wouldn’t have loaded his body into the trunk of her car. And...

Diese Eifler Seniorinnen lassen sich nichts vormachen! Die Neuigkeit macht in Himmelrath schneller die Runde als man gucken kann: Der Verbandsbürgermeister Hubert Brandt ist tot. Erschlagen. Mit einem Stein. Tragisch, wirklich! Der Schrecken bei den vier Rommé-Freundinnen Evelyne, Barbara, Ingrid und Rosa sitzt tief. Darauf erst mal ein Schlückchen Wein … Schnell wird klar, dass Barbaras gemütlicher Bruder Hannes, Kriminalbeamter kurz vor der Pensionierung (gedanklich jedoch bereits seit vielen Jahren in Rente), mit diesem Fall maßlos überfordert sein wird.

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is the world’s first locked-room mystery, a seemingly impossible crime story as powerful as any that have copied the scenario since. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a...

The next time you visit Olympia, take a good look around and see if you think it would be possible to murder someone in the middle of the crowd there without being seen. The new Comet was fully expected to be the sensation of the annual Motor Show at Olympia. Suddenly, in the middle of the dense...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. In this supernatural tale by the Queen of Crime, a nun has memories of a past-life in an ancient civilisation and believes she can harness natural psychic...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. A man confides in a friend that he has a fear of gypsies stemming from childhood nightmares. When he sees a gypsy in a red scarf he becomes unhinged. Encapsulated in...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. Sitting in front of a fire, Hastings listens as Poirot recounts his greatest failure. When a wealthy French deputy dies, everyone believes it is from natural causes. Poirot is on vacation from the Belgian...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on audio. When civilian life proves too dull for Major Wilbrahams he contacts Parker Pyne in order to escape his boredom. Pyne’s assistant arranges a chance meeting with the beautiful Freda Clegg and the two join...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook. A prima donna soprano is commissioned to give a command performance at a country estate. It sets off a chain of tragic events – but are they accidents or an act of revenge?...

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the forgotten second novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’ and recognised as one of the ‘big four’ Golden Age crime authors. When the body of Sir William Ponson is found in the Cranshaw River near his home of...

The latest in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins is a reissue of one of literature’s most audacious and thought-provoking novels of murder and intrigue, performed by Richard E. Grant. Includes John Inglisham’s foreword from the original Detective Story...

The fourth in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a tragic accident during a shooting party. As the story switches between Paris and Hampshire, the possibility of it not being an accident seems to grow more likely. “The Detective Story Club”...

The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a blind man who stumbles across a murder. As he has not seen anything, the assassins let him go, but he finds it is impossible to walk away from murder. “The Detective Story Club”, launched by...

Hausmeister Penzkofer lebt und arbeitet in einer Wohnanlage auf St. Pauli in Hamburg. Als er die Tür zur Wohnung von Herrn Schmadtke öffnet, da sich die Mieterin in der Wohnung unter ihm Frau Schreier über das Wasser beschwert hat, das von der Decke tropft, erblickt der Hausmeister den Mann tot, an einen Stuhl gefesselt. Schnell findet Penzkofer Gefallen daran, den Ermittlungen um die mysteriösen Ereignisse in der Anlage selbst nachzugehen. Er erfährt, dass der Tote Bienen gehalten hat, aber wo?

Susanne Oswald kombiniert Cosy Crime mit Strickromantik Im Strickladen »Strickschick« von Mette treffen sich einmal pro Woche vier Menschen aus Lüttjekoog, einem kleinen Ort an der Nordseeküste, um gemeinsam zu stricken. Für alle ist die Gruppe zur zweiten Heimat geworden, ihren persönlichen Problemen zum Trost. Das Motto der Strick-Crew: Zusammen strickt man weniger allein! Als Pfarrerin Anne in ihrer Kirche überfallen wird und kurz darauf ein Mord geschieht, entscheiden die vier dem Verbrechen selbst auf die Spur zu gehen. Besonders Mette ermittelt begeistert – und das nicht immer legal.