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Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings reunite for their most difficult case yet. When Poirot receives a letter warning him that a crime is about to be committed by the writer: 'A.B.C' the friends find themselves in a race against time to decipher the killer's twisted logic as he taunts the great detective by announcing the next murder location alphabetically. With every new killing a new pool of suspects is uncovered. Can Poirot and Hastings unmask the killer before a final letter seals an innocent victim's fate?

When Dougy's sister, Gracey, is picked for the state athletics championships, not everybody in their small bush town in pleased. 'Aborigines get special treatment', some of the angry white people say. The championships change everything for Gracey and trigger dramatic events in the town too: Black and white relations reach explosion point. The time is ripe for the mysterious Moodagudda to seek a victim. In the end, it's up to Dougy to save his family - and to prove himself.

Something is wrong at Cheshunt. Nathanial feels it the moment he arrives. It is not the model neighborhood it appears to be; strange things happen, despite the curfew. And soon Nathanial learns that his presence is no accident. As the dark calls its own, so does the light draw its champions, and Nathanial finds he must confront phantoms from his own past in his battle to stop the Gathering and its creator.

Charmwood High, and Year 8 plans to turn the school play, Romeo and Juliet, into a rock musical. Everything's moving along until someone mentions Equal Opportunity. There aren't enough roles for girls in this production. For the narrator, Peter Nutt, Equal Opportunity means more opportunities for teachers like Poxon and girls like Ravolini to get at him. And then there's Millie Miletic from the Holy Family of the Little Sisters by the Sea: she's in love!

Novelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest postwar writers. A master of comic fiction, he came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of seven of his short stories and two novels, all imbued with his characteristic wit and social satire. These are complemented by readings of selected correspondence and an interview with Amis himself.

Killer boots, all right. They'd kicked some wicked goals, but Greg was worried. It'd kill him if he had to give them back, and if things went real bad, his mum would kill him too.

Gracey's come home to Cunningham on holidays. But now she's a state athletics champion and a private school student, and everything looks different - even frightening. Part history, part mystery, Gracey is a challenging story about the past and the present, murder and compassion, and black and white identity.

Hellz, Tan, and Eddie are the local skateboarding trio. Every night after school they hang out together, terrorising "the Witch". That's what they call elderly Lallie. They make their own rules, and give cheek to anyone who gets in their way. But Lallie gives as good as she gets, and when Hellz unexpectedly finds himself in her garden one day, he soon learns that there's more to Lallie than he thought.

Matt is shocked and angered when he witnesses a brutal assault on his friend George, an Aboriginal elder and one of the leaders of a protest against a uranium processing plant at the Port - angry enough to break into the Fortress and try to find out more about the people and company who want the plant built. Despite the odds Matt overcomes Goliath!

Nobody goes near Devil's Island. Those who do, die on its haunted shores. When things start to go horribly wrong, Luke's journey becomes a life-and-death struggle to survive a treacherous cliff, a mountain labyrinth, and a mysterious man who will do anything to guard his deadly secret.

Avalon is cursed. Blood built it, and blood brought it down. A bloody murder. A terrible miscarriage of justice. A deadly secret. Rob's determination to discover the truth is about to turn into a struggle between life and death. Can Rob break the curse of Avalon? Or will he be its next victim?

"Die schönsten Märchen" - in Folge 37 dieser zauberhaften Hörspielreihe hört ihr "Der gestiefelte Kater" und "Die Kristallkugel" nach den Gebrüdern Grimm.