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Whatever you do, don't eat the paella! Simon Turing is on holiday in southern Spain and things are not going at all well. The hire car breaks down on the way from the airport and, while phoning for help, Simon hears a cry of distress from a nearby orange grove. He arrives to find a man lying dead in a ditch. By the time the authorities arrive, however, the body has disappeared. The police think Simon must have disturbed a tramp who scarpered when he went to call for an ambulance.

A tropical getaway turns deadly when a senator and his family are taken hostage by a group of highly trained mercenaries. The United States government wants this handled quietly, so they hire Mercer and his team to resolve the crisis situation.

The Adventure of the Empty House, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Public pressure forced Conan Doyle to bring the sleuth back to life, and explain his apparently miraculous survival of a deadly struggle with Professor Moriarty. This is the first Holmes story set after his supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls, as recounted in "The Final Problem". The Hound of the Baskervilles had seen the return of a pre-Reichenbach Falls Sherlock Holmes, which only served to whet readers' appetites.

The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is the second tale from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. The story was first published in The Strand Magazine in 1903 with original illustrations by Sidney Paget. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are visited by "the unhappy John Hector McFarlane", a young lawyer from Blackheath who has been accused of murdering one of his clients, a builder called Jonas Oldacre. McFarlane explains to Holmes that Oldacre had come to his office only a day earlier and asked him to draw up his will in legal language.

The Adventure of Black Peter is a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle. This tale is in the collection The Return of Sherlock Holmes, but was published originally in 1904 in the Strand Magazine and Collier's. Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he admires, for help. Holmes has already determined that it would take a great deal of strength and skill to run a man through with a harpoon and embed it in the wall behind him.

The Adventure of the Priory School, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Priory School tenth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. Holmes receives a visit from Dr. Thorneycroft Huxtable, the founder and principal of a preparatory school called Priory School in Northern England. He beseeches Holmes to come back to Mackleton with him to look into the disappearance of one of his pupils, the ten-year-old Lord Saltire.

The Adventure of the Dancing Men, a Sherlock Holmes story written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle published as The Return of Sherlock Holmes in 1905. Doyle ranked The Adventure of the Dancing Men third in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories. This is one of only two Sherlock Holmes short stories where Holmes' client dies after seeking his help. The other is "The Five Orange Pips", part of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The original title was "The Dancing Men," when it was published as a short story in The Strand Magazine in December 1903.

The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist, one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is contacted by Miss Violet Smith of Farnham, Surrey about an unusual turn in hers and her mother's lives. Violet's father has recently died and left his wife and daughter rather poor. There was an ad in the news asking about their whereabouts. Answering it, they met Mr. Carruthers and Mr. Woodley, the former a pleasant enough man, but the latter a bully.

Matty Iapen is the most average bounty hunter and investigator you could hire in Cleveland. He graduated college with a journalism degree only to find work chasing criminals and solving B-rate mysteries. Along with his colleagues Mariah and Alison, Matty will solve any mystery -- mainly because he needs to pay the bills.

Eine Kinderleiche – weggeworfen wie Abfall ... Der Auftakt der bekannten Thrillerreihe um Ermittler Roland Benito von der dänischen Krimi-Königin! Manche Bilder kann man nie wieder auslöschen ... Ein schreckliches Verbrechen erschüttert die dänische Großstadt Aarhus: Ein totes, zehnjähriges Mädchen, weggeworfen in einem Abfallcontainer. Kommissar Roland Benito von der Polizei Ostjütland soll herausfinden, wie es zu der grausamen Tat kommen konnte. Hilfe erhält er von unerwarteter Seite – der Zeitungsreporterin Anne Larsen, die schon bald auf eine erste Spur stößt.

A self-published author's life is turned upside down when a vengeful brother-in-law gives the wrong information to the wrong people! Marty McRory, a retired engineer, spends his days writing for fun. His sudden disappearance brings his best friend, a private investigator known as the Polish Dragon, into the case to help solve the mystery.

The world's number one best-selling novelist and his wife are found dead in their east Florida beach home — from no apparent cause. Something outrageous has been done to the bodies. FBI Special Agent Naomi Soul and her partner Xue Sang are ordered to solve the crime. On the west coast of Florida, another best-selling author is murdered. The method is both horrible and graphic. Are the two deaths connected? The MOs are completely different, but the two authors knew each other well. One thing is clear. Someone is killing authors using the methods in their stories.

When a decapitated body washes up on the banks of the River Loire in the ancient city of Tours, the reluctant juge d’instruction Mattiew Lombard is brought in to lead the investigation. But when Lombard’s young niece appears, the inquiry changes course. Suddenly immersed in another world – one of eco-terrorism, bio-medical research, French aristocracy and the violent forgotten underbelly of society – Lombard begins to make unexpected connections.

Il Marinachiara è uno degli alberghi più importanti di Rocca Tirrenica, rinomato centro turistico della costa toscana. Ed è stato anche l’ultimo lavoro di cui si è occupato l’architetto Serpieri, prima di perdere la vita in un tragico incidente stradale. Così, quando dopo un anno la vedova Cristina ritrova tra le cose appartenute al marito una borsa con ventimila euro in contanti, ecco che Dante Baldini, ex poliziotto ora investigatore privato, viene chiamato a scoprire l’origine di quei soldi e il motivo per cui erano nascosti.

Someone had axed Fred Hunter, The Trib's resident muckraker, and his whole family. And I was suspect #1. I'm Dan Warden, newly deposed police chief of Oregon City. It was one of Fred's columns that led to my resignation in scandal. The prosecutor needed a trophy for the next election and my head was his prize.

Dr. Watson hat keine Zeit, zu verarbeiten, dass sein totgeglaubter Freund Sherlock Holmes noch am Leben ist. Kaum ist der Detektiv zurück, zieht er den guten Doktor auch gleich in einen seiner Fälle. Denn bevor er sein gewohntes Leben wieder aufnehmen kann, gilt es noch einen letzten, überaus gefährlichen Gegner auszuschalten.

Bevor Harst und Schraut ihre Reise nach Nagpur fortsetzen können, erhalten die beiden Männer eine geheimnisvolle, große Kiste zugestellt. Sie öffnen diese und schrecken entsetzt zurück. Ein ihnen wohlbekannter Mann, mit gefesselten Händen und Beinen, sitzt halbnackt und grotesk entstellt darin und überbringt ihnen eine grausige Botschaft.

Die Box versammelt insgesamt 10 Kriminalfälle aus Doyles Kurzgeschichtenbänden Die Abschiedsvorstellung und Die letzten Fälle. Nachdem Sherlock Holmes knapp dem Tod entronnen ist, wird der Meisterdetektiv tatsächlich etwas milder und lächelt sogar ab und an, was seiner genialen Kombinationsgabe jedoch keinen Abbruch tut. Die Hörspiel-Edition enthält die legendären Inszenierungen des Bayerischen Rundfunks und des Saarländischen Rundfunks aus den 60er-Jahren sowie Hörspiele des SWR aus den 80er-Jahren — mit herausragenden Sprechern wie Peter Pasetti und René Deltgen.

Eighteen months after Hillary suffered a personal tragedy, she is throwing herself into her work to try to get over it. Former soldier Gareth Proctor joins her team and finds himself quickly growing to enjoy his new environment. The first cold case he works on is the murder of Andrew Feeley. In 2012, this twenty-one-year-old was found dead in the woods near his home, killed by a single stab wound to the chest from his own knife.

When successful mystery novelist and fledgling private detective Marius Quin is invited to speak at the Mystery and Detection Society he jumps at the chance of a luxurious weekend away on the English coast. But arriving at Torquay’s Grand Hotel with his sleuthing partner Lady Bella Montague, there is the definite sense that all is not well. When they wake the next morning to discover the body of a cantankerous local in the hotel pool, the things go from bad to worse. But how can the duo catch a killer when every piece of evidence they uncover is contradicted by two more?