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The Greatest Female Crime Writers of All Time: Novels and Stories Featuring Hercule Poirot, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Alan Grant
- Hercule Poirot Books 1-6, The Complete Detective Alan Grant Novels, & Lord Peter Wimsey Books 1-5
- By: Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey
- Narrated by: Karen Cass, David Rintoul, Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 123 hrs and 45 mins
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The Greatest Female Crime Writers of All Time is a collection of 17 classic detective novels and stories, read by three award-winning narrators. Included here are stories by some of the greatest female crime writers of the 20th century: Agatha Christie; Dorothy L. Sayers; and Josephine Tey.
By: Dorothy L. Sayers, and others
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Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey & Detective Alan Grant: The Complete Collection
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes Novels and Stories, The Complete Detective Alan Grant Novels, & Books 1-5 in the Lord Peter Wimsey Series
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Karen Cass
- Length: 144 hrs and 51 mins
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Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey, & Detective Alan Grant: The Complete Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 20 classic detective novels and stories from three of the greatest crime writers of the 20th century and their most iconic characters.
By: Arthur Conan Doyle, and others
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Holmes and Moriarty
- The new official Sherlock Holmes novel
- By: Gareth Rubin
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Michael Fenner
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend, Dr John Watson, have been hired by actor George Reynolds. George wants them to find out why the audience who comes to see him perform every night are the same people, only wearing disguises. Is something sinister going on and, if so, what? Meanwhile, Holmes’ archenemy, Professor James Moriarty, is having problems of his own. Implicated in the murder of a gang leader, Moriarty and his second, Moran, must go on the run from the police in order to find out who is behind the set-up.
By: Gareth Rubin
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A Scandal in Bohemia
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 51 mins
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The King of Bohemia engages Holmes to recover an indiscreet photograph showing him with the renowned beauty, adventuress and opera singer Irene Adler – the revelation of which would derail his marriage to a daughter of the King of Scandinavia. In disguise, Holmes witnesses Adler marry the man she truly loves, then by means of an elaborate stratagem discovers the photograph's hiding place. But when Holmes and the king return to retrieve the photo, they find Adler has fled the country with it, leaving behind a letter for Holmes and a portrait of herself for the King. The king allows Holmes to retain the portrait as a souvenir.
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The Five Orange Pips
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 42 mins
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John Openshaw tells Holmes that in 1883 his uncle died two months after receiving a letter inscribed "K.K.K." with five orange pips enclosed, and that in 1885 his father died soon after receiving a similar letter; now Openshaw himself has received such a letter. Holmes tells him to do as the letter asks and leave a diary page, which Holmes deduces is connected to the Ku Klux Klan, on the garden sundial. Openshaw is killed before he can do so, but Holmes discovers the killers have been travelling on a sailing ship, and sends the captain a letter with five orange pips. The ship is lost at sea.
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The Man with the Twisted Lip
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 52 mins
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Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window. The beggar is arrested, but a few days later St. Clair's wife receives a letter from her husband. Holmes concludes, then proves, that the beggar is actually St. Clair in disguise; he confesses that he has been leading a double life as a beggar, making more money that way than in his nominal work.
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The Greatest Female Crime Writers of All Time: Novels and Stories Featuring Hercule Poirot, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Alan Grant
- Hercule Poirot Books 1-6, The Complete Detective Alan Grant Novels, & Lord Peter Wimsey Books 1-5
- By: Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Josephine Tey
- Narrated by: Karen Cass, David Rintoul, Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 123 hrs and 45 mins
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The Greatest Female Crime Writers of All Time is a collection of 17 classic detective novels and stories, read by three award-winning narrators. Included here are stories by some of the greatest female crime writers of the 20th century: Agatha Christie; Dorothy L. Sayers; and Josephine Tey.
By: Dorothy L. Sayers, and others
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Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey & Detective Alan Grant: The Complete Collection
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes Novels and Stories, The Complete Detective Alan Grant Novels, & Books 1-5 in the Lord Peter Wimsey Series
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy L. Sayers, Josephine Tey
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Karen Cass
- Length: 144 hrs and 51 mins
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Sherlock Holmes, Lord Peter Wimsey, & Detective Alan Grant: The Complete Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 20 classic detective novels and stories from three of the greatest crime writers of the 20th century and their most iconic characters.
By: Arthur Conan Doyle, and others
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Holmes and Moriarty
- The new official Sherlock Holmes novel
- By: Gareth Rubin
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Michael Fenner
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
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Sherlock Holmes and his faithful friend, Dr John Watson, have been hired by actor George Reynolds. George wants them to find out why the audience who comes to see him perform every night are the same people, only wearing disguises. Is something sinister going on and, if so, what? Meanwhile, Holmes’ archenemy, Professor James Moriarty, is having problems of his own. Implicated in the murder of a gang leader, Moriarty and his second, Moran, must go on the run from the police in order to find out who is behind the set-up.
By: Gareth Rubin
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A Scandal in Bohemia
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 51 mins
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The King of Bohemia engages Holmes to recover an indiscreet photograph showing him with the renowned beauty, adventuress and opera singer Irene Adler – the revelation of which would derail his marriage to a daughter of the King of Scandinavia. In disguise, Holmes witnesses Adler marry the man she truly loves, then by means of an elaborate stratagem discovers the photograph's hiding place. But when Holmes and the king return to retrieve the photo, they find Adler has fled the country with it, leaving behind a letter for Holmes and a portrait of herself for the King. The king allows Holmes to retain the portrait as a souvenir.
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The Five Orange Pips
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 42 mins
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John Openshaw tells Holmes that in 1883 his uncle died two months after receiving a letter inscribed "K.K.K." with five orange pips enclosed, and that in 1885 his father died soon after receiving a similar letter; now Openshaw himself has received such a letter. Holmes tells him to do as the letter asks and leave a diary page, which Holmes deduces is connected to the Ku Klux Klan, on the garden sundial. Openshaw is killed before he can do so, but Holmes discovers the killers have been travelling on a sailing ship, and sends the captain a letter with five orange pips. The ship is lost at sea.
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The Man with the Twisted Lip
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 52 mins
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Neville St. Clair, a respectable businessman, has disappeared and his wife claims she saw him at the upper window of an opium den. Rushing upstairs to the room she found only a beggar who denied any knowledge of St. Clair – whose clothes are later found in the room, and his coat, laden with coins, in the River Thames outside the window. The beggar is arrested, but a few days later St. Clair's wife receives a letter from her husband. Holmes concludes, then proves, that the beggar is actually St. Clair in disguise; he confesses that he has been leading a double life as a beggar, making more money that way than in his nominal work.
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A Case of Identity
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 41 mins
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Against the wishes of her stepfather, Mary Sutherland has become engaged to Hosmer Angel. On the morning of their wedding Hosmer elicits a promise that Mary will remain faithful to him "even if something quite unforeseen" occurs, then mysteriously disappears en route to the church. Holmes deduces that Hosmer was Mary's stepfather in disguise, the charade a bid to keep Mary a spinster and thus maintain access to her inheritance. Holmes does not reveal the truth to Mary because "There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman".
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The Boscombe Valley Mystery
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 55 mins
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Inspector Lestrade asks for Holmes's help after Charles McCarthy is murdered, and his son, James, is implicated. McCarthy, and another local landowner, John Turner, are both Australian expatriates, and Lestrade was originally engaged by Turner's daughter, Alice, who believes James is innocent. Holmes interviews James, and then inspects the scene of the murder, deducing a third man was present. Realising Holmes has solved the case, Turner confesses to the crime, revealing that McCarthy was blackmailing him due to Turner's criminal past.
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The Red-Headed League
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 52 mins
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Jabez Wilson, a pawnbroker, consults Holmes about a job, gained only because of his red hair, which took him away from his shop for long periods each day; the job for to simply copy the Encyclopædia Britannica. After eight weeks, he was suddenly informed that the job ended. After some investigation at Wilson's shop, Holmes contacts a police inspector and the manager of a nearby bank. With Watson, they hide in the bank vault and catch two thieves who had dug a tunnel from the shop while Wilson was at the decoy copying job.
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Paul Temple. Die große Box
- By: Francis Durbridge
- Narrated by: René Deltgen, Annemarie Cordes
- Length: 27 hrs and 51 mins
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Einst fesselten sie ein Millionenpublikum, heute sind sie Kult: die Hörspielklassiker um den smarten Londoner Kriminalisten Paul Temple, der 30 Jahre lang im britischen Äther Karriere machte und mit der Stimme von René Deltgen auch Deutschland wie im Flug eroberte. Geschaffen wurden sie von Francis Durbridge, dessen Mehrteiler echte »Straßenfeger« waren. Die Hörspielbox umfasst sechs Hörspiele, in denen der Gentleman-Detektiv Paul Temple mit seiner bezaubernden Frau Steve die kniffligsten Fälle mit britischer Gelassenheit und unbeirrbarem Charme löst.
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The Musgrave Ritual
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 41 mins
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The Musgrave Ritual is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The story was originally published in Strand Magazine in 1919, and was collected later in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Unlike the majority of Holmes stories, the main narrator is not Doctor Watson, but Sherlock Holmes himself. With Watson providing an introduction, the story within a story is a classic example of a frame tale. It is one of the earliest recorded cases investigated by Holmes, and establishes his problem solving skills.
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Silver Blaze
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 59 mins
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Silver Blaze, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked Silver Blaze 13th in a list of his 19 favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. Sherlock Holmes and his partner Dr. Watson travel by train to Dartmoor to investigate a crime of disappearance of the great race horse Silver Blaze and the murder of the horse's trainer, John Straker. Holmes and Watson arrive at King's Pyland, from which Silver Blaze is missing.
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The Adventure of the Yellow Face
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 42 mins
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The Yellow Face, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the third tale from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine in 1893 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget. Sherlock Holmes, suffering from boredom due to a want of cases, returns home from a walk with Dr. Watson early in spring to find he has missed a visitor but that the caller has left his pipe behind.
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The "Gloria Scott"
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 42 mins
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The Gloria Scott, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It is chronologically the earliest case in Sherlock Holmes canon. This story is related mainly by Holmes rather than Watson, and is the first case to which Holmes applied his powers of deduction, having treated it as a mere hobby until this time. This is one of the two Sherlock Holmes stories in which a protagonist is haunted by an old acquaintance for an old crime. The other is "The Boscombe Valley Mystery".
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The Stockbroker's Clerk
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 39 mins
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The Stockbroker's Clerk is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the fourth of the twelve collected in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in most British editions of the canon, and third of eleven in most American ones (owing to the omission of the "scandalous" "Adventure of the Cardboard Box"). The story was first published in Strand Magazine in March 1893 and featured seven illustrations by Sidney Paget. A young clerk, Hall Pycroft, consults Holmes with his suspicions concerning a company that has offered him a very well-paid job.
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The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 53 mins
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The Adventure of the Cardboard Box is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the second of the twelve Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes in most British editions of the canon, and the second of the eight stories from His Last Bow in most American versions. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1893. Miss Susan Cushing of Croydon receives a parcel in the post that contains two severed human ears packed in coarse salt. Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard suspects a prank by three medical students whom Miss Cushing was forced to evict because of their unruly behaviour.
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The Murder on the Links
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Graham Stuart
- Length: 7 hrs and 7 mins
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Hercule Poirot is at it again in this murder mystery set both in England and France. Hercule must travel back to France to solve the crime, and finds himself battling the French Police Force as much as the culprit!
By: Agatha Christie
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The Adventure of the Speckled Band
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 54 mins
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Helen Stoner worries her stepfather may be trying to kill her after he contrives to move her to the bedroom where her sister had died two years earlier, shortly before her wedding. Stoner is herself now engaged, and Holmes learns that her stepfather's annuity (from the estate of his wife — Stoner's mother) would be greatly reduced if either sister married. During a late-night investigation of the bedroom, Holmes and Watson discover a dummy bell-pull near a ventilator. As they lie in wait a whistle sounds, then a snake appears through the ventilator.
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The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 51 mins
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A banker asks Holmes to investigate after a "Beryl Coronet" entrusted to him is damaged at his home. Awakened by noise, he had found his son, Arthur, holding the damaged coronet. Arthur refuses to speak, neither admitting guilt nor explaining himself. Footprints in the snow outside the house tell Holmes that the banker's niece had conspired with a blackguard to steal the coronet; Arthur had discovered the crime in progress and the coronet had been damaged during his struggle to prevent it being stolen. He had refused to tell his father the truth of the crime because of his love for his cousin.
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The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 45 mins
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Lord Robert St. Simon's new American bride, Hatty Doran, has disappeared almost immediately after the wedding. The servants had prevented an old love interest of his from forcing her way into the wedding breakfast, Hatty had been seen in whispered conversation with her maid, and Inspector Lestrade arrives with the news that Hatty's wedding dress and ring have been found floating in the Serpentine. Holmes quickly solves the mystery, locating Hatty at a hotel with a mysterious, "common-looking" man who had picked up her dropped bouquet after the ceremony.
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The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 44 mins
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An engineer, Victor Hatherley, attends Dr Watson's surgery after his thumb is chopped off, and recounts his tale to Watson and Holmes. Hatherley had been hired for 50 guineas to repair a machine he was told compressed Fuller's earth into bricks. Hatherley was told to keep the job confidential, and was transported to the job in a carriage with frosted glass, to keep the location secret. He was shown the press, but on closer inspection discovered a "crust of metallic deposit" on the press, and he suspected it was not being used for compressing earth.
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The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 53 mins
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FViolet Hunter consults Holmes after being offered a governess job subject to a number of unusual conditions, including cutting her hair short. The wage is extremely high, £120, and she decides to accept the job, though Holmes tells her to contact him if she needs to. After a number of strange occurrences, including the discovery of a sealed-off wing of the house, she does so. Holmes discovers that someone had been kept prisoner in the wing, but when Holmes, Watson and Hunter enter, it is empty.
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The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
- Sherlock Holmes
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Carl Mason
- Length: 43 mins
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A Blue Carbuncle is stolen from a hotel suite, and a former felon is soon arrested. However, an acquaintance of Holmes discovers the carbuncle in the throat of a Christmas goose. Holmes traces the owner of the goose, but soon determines that he was not the thief by offering him a replacement goose. The detective continues his search, first to an inn and then a dealer in Covent Garden. The dealer refuses to provide Holmes with information about the source of the goose, but Holmes observes another man trying to find the same information, and confronts him.
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Kalla hjärtan
- By: Tess Gerritsen
- Narrated by: EvaMaria Oria
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
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Den unga, ambitiösa läkaren Abby DiMatteo har med en kombination av skicklighet och järnhård vilja lyckats få fast anställning som kirurg på det ansedda Bayside Hospital i Boston. Och hon är nära att nå sina drömmars mål – att få ingå i sjukhusets berömda transplantationsteam. Men så inträffar något som äventyrar hennes utnämning, hela hennes karriär. Ett trafikoffer, en hjärndöd kvinna, kommer en kväll in till sjukhuset, där en sjuttonårig pojke väntar på hjärttransplantation.
By: Tess Gerritsen
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Ont blod
- By: Tess Gerritsen
- Narrated by: EvaMaria Oria
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
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Claire måste få veta sanningen för att kunna rädda sin son. Hon anar inte vilka starka krafter hon kämpar mot … Claire, som är läkare och ensamstående mamma till Noah, flyttar från storstaden till den lugna lilla badorten Tranquility. Plötslig spricker idyllen. En av skolans elever öppnar eld i klassrummet och skjuter sin lärarinna till döds. Händelsen följs snabbt av fler fruktansvärda våldsbrott och staden invånare drabbas av panik. Claire misstänker att det finns en gemensam nämnare hos förövarna.
By: Tess Gerritsen
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Die Beryll-Krone
- Ein Sherlock Holmes Abenteuer
- By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Peter Bocek
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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Die Beryll-Krone (The Beryl Coronet) erschien erstmals im Mai 1892 im Strand Magazine, Im Oktober desselben Jahres wurde der Fall in Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes veröffentlicht, Handlungszeitpunkt.
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Der Mann mit der entstellten Lippe
- Ein Sherlock Holmes Abenteuer
- By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Peter Bocek
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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Der Mann mit der entstellten Lippe (The Man with the Twisted Lip) erschien erstmals im Dezember 1891 im Strand Magazine und wurde ein Jahr später mit 11 anderen Fällen in Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes veröffentlicht. Handlungszeitpunkt Juni 1889: Im Londoner Hafenviertel verschwindet der angesehene Gentleman Neville St. Clair spurlos. Alle Beweise sprechen für Mord und der einzige Verdächtige ist ein Bettler mit grausam entstellter Lippe.
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Der adelige Junggeselle
- Ein Sherlock Holmes Abenteuer
- By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Peter Bocek
- Length: 56 mins
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Der adelige Junggeselle (The Noble Bachelor) erschien erstmals im April 1892 im Strand Magazine. Noch im selben Jahr wurde der Fall in Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes veröffentlicht. Handlungszeitpunkt: Oktober 1886: Lord Robert St Simon, der zweite Sohn des Herzogs von Balmoral, sagt sich brieflich für den Nachmittag bei Holmes und Watson an. Aus den Zeitungen rekapitulieren sie, dass sich der 41jährige am Vortag mit Hatty Doran, der einzigen Tochter eines US-Millionärs aus San Francisco, verheiraten wollte.
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Der Daumen des Ingenieurs
- Ein Sherlock Holmes Abenteuer
- By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Peter Bocek
- Length: 53 mins
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In Dr. Watsons Praxis erscheint sehr früh am Morgen der knapp 25jährige Hydraulik-Ingenieur Victor Hatherley, der in der Nacht einen Daumen verloren hat. Da er von einem Mordanschlag spricht, schaltet Watson umgehend Holmes ein. Ihm berichtet Hatherley, dass ihn gestern in seinem miserabel laufenden Laden ein ungewöhnlich dünner Mann mit deutschem Akzent aufgesucht hat, der sich als Oberst Lysander Stark ausgab.
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Die Blutbuchen
- Ein Sherlock Holmes Abenteuer
- By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Peter Bocek
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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Die Blutbuchen (The Copper Beeches) erschien erstmals im Juni 1892 im Strand Magazine. Noch im selben Jahr wurde der Fall in Die Abenteuer des Sherlock Holmes veröffentlicht. Handlungszeitpunkt: Vorfrühling 1890: Der arbeitslosen Miss Violet Hunter wird ein verlockendes und gleichzeitig seltsamens Arbeitsangebot gemacht: Für 120 Pfund im Jahr soll sie als Gouvernante auf das Anwesen The Copper Beeches (Die Blutbuchen) ziehen, allerdings ihr üppiges, kastanienbraunes Haar kurz und, wenn man es von ihr verlangt, ein spezielles Kleid tragen.