Showing results by publisher "HarperCollins" in Traditional Detectives

Read by Tony Britton, The Hound of the Baskervilles is the most celebrated tale of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s canon. A fiendish evil lurks amid the mist and loneliness of Devon’s fabled Dartmoor. In the form of a hellish hound, it feeds upon the trembling flesh of the heirs of Baskerville Hall...

The classic tale of young scoundrel Huck Finn and runaway slave Jim’s breathtaking raft journey down the Mississippi. A masterpiece of American literature. 'We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty...

The classic of eternal youth. 'How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young… If it was only the other way!' Wilde's first and only published novel recounts the story of handsome Dorian Gray who upon having his portrait painted desires...

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...

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...

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?...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time as an ebook. Fifteen years ago, Miss Marple’s niece, Mabel Denman was accused of murdering her husband. Mabel’s marriage had been an unhappy one, as Geoffrey had been abusive and violent. Can Miss Marple clear...

Agatha Christie’s complete Tommy and Tuppence short story collection. Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance. After their triumphant recovery of a pink pearl, intriguing...

The Floating Admiral was the first of the Detection Club’s collaborative novels, in which twelve of its members wrote a single novel. Eighty-five years later, fourteen members of the club have once again collaborated to produce The Sinking Admiral. ‘The Admiral’ is a pub in the Suffolk...

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...

Another Wexford mystery read by George Baker and available for the first time on digital download. China both delighted and frustrated Wexford; the beauty, the history, all of that brought immense pleasure. But the unending attention of Mr Sung of the Chinese Tourist Board was hugely irritating...

Another Wexford mystery read by George Baker "We're all racist in this country" said Wexford. "Without exception. People over 40 are the worst and that's about all you can say. " But until he became involved with the Akandes, whose daughter had gone missing, Wexford hadn't applied that reality...

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...

Ein kriminalistisches Abenteuer auf den Spuren Arthur Conan Doyles. London, 1889: Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson werden von einem jungen Schauspieler engagiert, um einem seltsamen Fall nachzugehen. Zu seinen Aufführungen kommen jeden Tag dieselben Zuschauer – jedoch immer in anderen Verkleidungen. Zur gleichen Zeit läuft Professor Moriarty und Sebastian Moran die Zeit davon: Sie werden für einen mysteriösen Mord verantwortlich gemacht und müssen untertauchen. Eine unsichtbare Hand zieht das Netz um die beiden verfeindeten Genies Holmes und Moriarty immer enger.