British Mystery Classics
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Murder in the Mill-Race
- British Library Crime Classic
- By: E.C.R. Lorac
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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When Dr Raymond Ferens moves to a practice at Milham in the Moor in north Devon, he and his wife are enchanted with the beautiful hilltop village lying so close to moor and sky. At first they see only its charm, but soon they begin to uncover its secrets - envy, hatred and malice. Everyone says that Sister Monica, warden of a children's home, is a saint - but is she? A few months after the Ferens' arrival her body is found drowned in the mill-race. Chief Inspector Macdonald faces one of his most difficult cases in a village determined not to betray its dark secrets to a stranger.
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A classic crime novel, with some modern themes
- By H. Tollyfield on 07-02-20
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Murder in the Mill-Race
- British Library Crime Classic
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 01-02-20
- Language: English
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When Dr Raymond Ferens moves to a practice at Milham in the Moor in north Devon, he and his wife are enchanted with the beautiful hilltop village lying so close to moor and sky. At first they see only its charm, but soon they begin to uncover its secrets....
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The Fatal Flying Affair
- A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 7
- By: T E Kinsey
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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August 1911. Emily Hardcastle and her inimitable lady’s maid Florence Armstrong are enjoying a fine summer until Harry, Lady H’s brother, turns up out of the blue with a mystery for them to solve. A routine parachute test at a local aeroplane factory has gone horribly wrong - with pilot Dickie Dupree plummeting to his death. Harry is certain there is more to this ‘tragic accident’ than meets the eye, having discovered that someone at the airfield is leaking top secret intelligence to foreign rivals.
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Good continuation of the series
- By RED on 30-12-20
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The Fatal Flying Affair
- A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 7
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Series: A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 7
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 03-12-20
- Language: English
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August 1911. Emily Hardcastle and her inimitable lady’s maid Florence Armstrong are enjoying a fine summer until Harry, Lady H’s brother, turns up out of the blue with a mystery for them to solve....
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Killing by Numbers
- An Oxford Murder Mystery (Bridget Hart, Book 2)
- By: M S Morris
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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When reclusive artist Gabriel Quinn is gunned down outside a gallery on Oxford High Street, Detective Inspector Bridget Hart investigates the world of contemporary art, where paintings can change hands for millions in the auction room. Bridget is convinced that the last words spoken by the artist - a mysterious code of eight digits and a letter - are key to unraveling the mystery of his death.
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Enjoyable story
- By AngieC on 30-10-23
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Killing by Numbers
- An Oxford Murder Mystery (Bridget Hart, Book 2)
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Series: Bridget Hart Series, Book 2
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 08-09-20
- Language: English
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When reclusive artist Gabriel Quinn is gunned down outside a gallery on Oxford High Street, Detective Inspector Bridget Hart investigates the world of contemporary art, where paintings can change hands for millions in the auction room....
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Thornyhold
- By: Mary Stewart
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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The rambling house called Thornyhold is like something out of a fairy tale. Left to Gilly Ramsey by the cousin whose occasional visits brightened her childhood, the cottage, set deep in a wild wood, has come just in time to save her from a bleak future. With its reputation for magic and its resident black cat, Thornyhold offers Gilly more than just a new home. It offers her a chance to start over.
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Mary Stewart fan, but awful Narrator ruined it
- By Jude on 20-11-19
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Thornyhold
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 07-11-19
- Language: English
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The rambling house called Thornyhold is like something out of a fairy tale. Left to Gilly Ramsey by the cousin whose occasional visits brightened her childhood, the cottage, set deep in a wild wood, has come just in time to save her from a bleak future....
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Rabbit Hole
- By: Mark Billingham
- Narrated by: Maxine Peake
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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They were meant to be safe on Fleet Ward: psychiatric patients monitored, treated, cared for. But now one of their number is found murdered, and the accusations begin to fly. Was it one of his fellow patients? A member of staff? Or did someone come in from the outside? DC Alice Armitage is methodical, tireless, and she's quickly on the trail of the killer. The only problem is, Alice is a patient too.
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Keep your hand poised on the volume control….
- By Joolz1967 on 26-07-21
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Rabbit Hole
- Narrated by: Maxine Peake
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 22-07-21
- Language: English
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They were meant to be safe on Fleet Ward: psychiatric patients monitored, treated, cared for....
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Cause for Alarm
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Eric Ambler
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market in Britain in 1937 is pretty slim. So when his fiancée points out the position with an English armaments manufacturer in Italy, he jumps at the chance. Soon after he arrives, however, he learns the sinister truth about his predecessor's departure and finds himself courted by two agents with dangerously different agendas. In the process, Marlow realises that it's not so simple just to do the job he's paid for - not in fascist Italy, on the eve of a world war.
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Cause for alarm!
- By Banjoman on 24-08-20
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Cause for Alarm
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Daniel Weyman
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 30-07-20
- Language: English
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Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market in Britain in 1937 is pretty slim. So when his fiancée points out the position with an English armaments manufacturer in Italy, he jumps at the chance....
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Do No Evil
- An Oxford Murder Mystery (Bridget Hart Series, Book 3)
- By: M S Morris
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
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When Detective Inspector Bridget Hart returns to her old Oxford college for a reunion dinner, she's hoping for a fun weekend catching up with old friends. But the reunion takes a macabre turn when body parts are served up at the college feast, and one of her friends is found murdered. With Bridget's arch rival Inspector Baxter leading the murder inquiry, and herself a potential suspect, Bridget is forbidden from taking part in the investigation. But that doesn't stop her from carrying out her own private inquiries. Bridget soon realizes that the murderer is someone known to her.
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Zero 'detective work'
- By Giselle on 16-05-24
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Do No Evil
- An Oxford Murder Mystery (Bridget Hart Series, Book 3)
- Narrated by: Esther Wane
- Series: Bridget Hart Series, Book 3
- Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 23-09-20
- Language: English
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When Detective Inspector Bridget Hart returns to her old Oxford college for a reunion dinner, she's hoping for a fun weekend catching up with old friends. But the reunion takes a macabre turn when body parts are served up at the college feast, and one of her friends is found murdered....
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Epitaph for a Spy
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Eric Ambler
- Narrated by: Mark Noble
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be developed at a local chemists, he suddenly finds himself mistaken for a Gestapo agent, and a charge of espionage is levelled at him. To prove himself innocent to the French police, he must discover which one of his fellow guests at his pension is the real spy. As he desperately tries to uncover the true culprit's identity, Vadassy must risk his job, his safety and everything he holds dear.
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I couldn't finish this....
- By RNHMorton on 01-03-21
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Epitaph for a Spy
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Mark Noble
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 30-07-20
- Language: English
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Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be developed at a local chemists, he suddenly finds himself mistaken for a Gestapo agent....
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The Haunted Hotel
- By: Wilkie Collins
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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When Lord Montbarry dies suddenly in his Venice palace, and his courier goes missing, suspicion is instantly thrown on his new wife, the beautiful Countess Narona, who has collected his life insurance and fled to America. Montbarry's former fiance, Agnes, still harboring feelings for him, and Henry Westwick, Montbarry's younger brother, decide to investigate this tragedy and head for the palace, now a hotel. Not long after their arrival they experience strange and unsettling occurrences, and the circumstances of Montbarry's death begin to unravel.
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Not the best Wilkie Collins novel
- By David M on 11-11-19
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The Haunted Hotel
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 08-11-19
- Language: English
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When Lord Montbarry dies suddenly in his Venice palace, and his courier goes missing, suspicion's instantly thrown on his new wife, the beautiful Countess Narona, who has collected his life insurance and fled to America. Montbarry's ex-fiance, Agnes, and his younger brother, investigate....
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Classic Tales of Mystery: The Limitations of Pambe Serang
- By: Rudyard Kipling
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 12 mins
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A shipboard quarrel between Nurkeed and Pambe Serang leads to a lingering grudge and a terrible revenge. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet and novelist. He wrote tales and poems of British soldiers in India and stories for children.
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Classic Tales of Mystery: The Limitations of Pambe Serang
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 12 mins
- Release date: 22-06-10
- Language: English
- A shipboard quarrel between Nurkeed and Pambe Serang leads to a lingering grudge and a terrible revenge....
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Death Has Deep Roots
- British Library Crime Classic
- By: Michael Gilbert
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
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At the Central Criminal Court, an eager crowd awaits the trial of Victoria Lamartine, an active participant in the Resistance during the war. She is now employed at the Family Hotel in Soho, where Major Eric Thoseby has been found murdered. Thoseby is believed to have fathered Lamartine's child, and the prosecution insist that his death is revenge for his abandonment of Lamartine and her arrest by the Gestapo. A last-minute change in Lamartine's defence counsel grants solicitor Nap Rumbold just eight days to prove her innocence.
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Slow
- By martin on 02-03-20
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Death Has Deep Roots
- British Library Crime Classic
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 01-01-20
- Language: English
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Solicitor Nap Rumbold has just eight days to prove Victoria Lamartine's innocence....
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The Incredible Crime
- By: Lois Austen-Leigh
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
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Spirited, beautiful, and thoroughly unconventional, Prudence Pinsent is a remarkable young woman. One fine morning she sets out for Suffolk to join her cousin Lord Wellende for a few days hunting. On the way Prudence encounters Captain Studde of the coastguard who is pursuing a quarry of his own. Studde is on the trail of a drug smuggling ring that connects Wellende Hall with the cloistered world of Cambridge.
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beautifully written and a compelling read
- By Christopher Leach on 07-11-17
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The Incredible Crime
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 07-09-17
- Language: English
- Prince's College, Cambridge: Prudence Pinsent, a remarkable young woman, must unravel the identity of drug smugglers who may be forced to kill to protect their secret....
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The Mystery of 31 New Inn
- By: R. Austin Freeman
- Narrated by: Graham Scott
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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Overworked locum Dr. Jervis is called to the bedside of a gentleman who refuses to see a doctor except on the condition that the doctor must be told neither his name nor his address. After a strange ride in a closed carriage, Jervis finds his patient apparently suffering the effects of morphine poisoning, and departs with a sense of uneasiness. Anxious to trace the man again, Jervis consults his old friend and colleague, the eminent scientific investigator Dr. John Thorndyke.
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liked it
- By Maureen on 24-06-21
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The Mystery of 31 New Inn
- Narrated by: Graham Scott
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 16-06-21
- Language: English
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Overworked locum Dr. Jervis is called to the bedside of a gentleman who refuses to see a doctor except on the condition that the doctor must be told neither his name nor his address....
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The Sign of Four (AmazonClassics Edition)
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
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Ten years ago, Mary Morstan’s father, an officer in an Indian regiment, vanished. Four years later, elegant pearls began to arrive, six in total, and now she holds an invitation to meet her mysterious anonymous benefactor. As Miss Morstan shares this peculiar tale with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, she urges the detectives to accompany her. Her only clues to her father’s disappearance: a map of a fortress with the names of four strangers and an assertion that she’s been dreadfully wronged.
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The Sign of Four (AmazonClassics Edition)
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Series: Sherlock Holmes, Book 2
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 10-09-19
- Language: English
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Ten years ago, Mary Morstan’s father, an officer in an Indian regiment, vanished. Four years later, elegant pearls began to arrive, six in total, and now she holds an invitation to meet her mysterious anonymous benefactor....
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Murder in Advance
- By: Marjorie Bremner
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 41 mins
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A playwright is murdered, seemingly in connection with the suspected blackmail of his friend—a rising young MP who, without explanation, disappeared from public view before his untimely death. With a number of high-profile suspects to investigate, the key to solving the case rests on a written clue left behind by the killer....
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Murder in Advance
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Length: 41 mins
- Release date: 07-04-22
- Language: English
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A playwright is murdered, seemingly in connection with the suspected blackmail of his friend—a rising young MP who, without explanation, disappeared from public view before his untimely death....
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The Ghost at Massingham Mansions
- A Max Carrados Mystery
- By: Ernest Bramah
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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Max Carrados is called in to investigate a mysterious ghost which haunts an empty flat in Massingham Mansions in London. Every night gaslights are seen in the apartment, even though the gas has been disconnected. Also water runs in the bath every night, even though the water supply has been turned off. Carrados quickly realises that the detectives on the case are barking up the wrong tree....
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The Ghost at Massingham Mansions
- A Max Carrados Mystery
- Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
- Release date: 11-12-18
- Language: English
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Max Carrados is called in to investigate a mysterious ghost which haunts an empty flat in Massingham Mansions in London. Every night gaslights are seen in the apartment, even though the gas has been disconnected....
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Mr Medhurst and the Princess
- By: Wilkie Collins
- Narrated by: Rob Goll, Amanda Friday
- Length: 57 mins
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Ernest Medhurst is unwittingly caught up in a minor political intrigue while second secretary to a small German Court. The Princess falls in love with him and to avoid the possibility of scandal affecting her forthcoming marriage her father ensures that Medhurst is duped into leaving the country.
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Mr Medhurst and the Princess
- Narrated by: Rob Goll, Amanda Friday
- Length: 57 mins
- Release date: 01-07-24
- Language: English
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Ernest Medhurst is unwittingly caught up in a minor political intrigue while second secretary to a small German Court. The Princess falls in love with him and to avoid the possibility of scandal affecting her forthcoming marriage her father ensures that Medhurst is duped into leaving the country.
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