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A collection of the best and most popular programs from the Golden Age of Radio, digitally remastered, and including performances from some of Hollywood’s most beloved stars, like Vincent Price, Claude Rains, Peggy Lee, and many more.

PC Gareth Bell watches the psychopath who stabbed Bell’s partner stroll out of court a free man. Somebody on the inside tampered with the evidence, and now one of Brighton’s most dangerous criminals is back on the streets again. Bell’s personal mission for revenge takes him onto the other side of the law and into the dark, violent underworld of the glamourous seaside city. Soon he faces a horrifying choice: risk everything he holds dear, or let the man who tried to kill his partner walk free.

Un vendedor de enciclopedias abandona el hospital tras una operación a cerebro abierto. La vuelta a la rutina, un camino aparentemente sencillo, se convierte en una odisea cuyo sentido no puede comprender. La visita al consultorio de un neurocirujano, la comida en un restaurante que amenaza con convertirse en improvisada sala de operaciones, el desafortunado encuentro con dos hombres que, tras presentarse como policías, amenazan con torturarle y la visita final a un prostíbulo son las piezas de un puzle que el protagonista trata de interpretar.

Martin Billings heads to Venezuela to locate a friend’s business partner. The man has slipped off the radar, and a lot of people want to find him. It’s easy enough to locate the man’s wife, vacationing on Margarita, but she knows nothing of the man’s whereabouts and cares even less. Several people do care where he is, however, including an ex-British spy named Simon, organized crime, and a mysterious foreign woman. None of it seems to have a thing to do with the reason he's there, but Martin is caught in the middle—again.

Al igual que en las grandes novelas de aventuras que se escribían a finales del XIX, y a las que Travesía del horizonte rinde cariñoso y también burlón homenaje, esta novela, publicada a los veintiún años, tiene como hilo conductor una atrevida expedición: el capitán Kerrigan, millonario y excéntrico, ha organizado un viaje a la Antártida para hombres de letras y científicos.

Victor Svensson, un tipo ambicioso y sin escrúpulos, se casa con la hija de un multimillonario galerista en los últimos momentos de la vida de este. Cuando el hombre fallece, Victor engaña a su mujer y logra hacerse con el negocio y ver colmadas por fin sus ansias de dinero y poder. Sin embargo, la aparición en escena de un hijo bastardo de Victor, fruto de una antigua relación, podría dar al traste con sus planes, y no está dispuesto a permitirlo.

The Emperor Henry of the Holy Roman Empire is dying, and his wife, the Empress Matilda, is in danger from those who would use her to gain the title and the power. King Henry of England sends Alfraed of Norton to rescue her and avoid a war. With enemies from France, Flanders and the empire, as well as Norman traitors, the handful of Northern Knights have to fight across Europe and back. A fast-moving novel that moves from Germany to the Scottish borders in the turbulent times of the early 12th century, when friends could become foes overnight.

Talon has returned to Acre, the Crusader port, after more than a year in Byzantium. He is now a rich man, the owner of ships and in possession of a license to play the merchant within the Empire to the north. However, riches bring enemies and his past is about to catch up with him as accusations of witchcraft have followed him from Languedoc. An investigation is about to disrupt his life but then everything is changed when he travels to a small fort with Sir Guy de Veres, his Templar mentor.

A riveting story of family, foreign waters, and a fortune beyond your wildest dreams. Hours before undoing a complicated and family-busting competition for a vast treasure trove of Spanish gold, Richard Dennison dies—leaving his spoiled children to piece together the clues to track down their inheritance.

London 1895. Im Garten eines Hauses im vornehmen Londoner Stadtteil South Norwood werden zwei Leichen gefunden. Offenbar wurden die Opfer zunächst erdrosselt und anschließend auf ihrem eigenen Grund und Boden in Särgen bestattet. Wer hatte ein Motiv, das in der Nachbarschaft als sonderlich geltende Geschwisterpaar zu ermorden? Und warum sind sämtliche Schuhe aus dem Haus verschwunden? Die Spuren führen Chief Inspector Swanson und sein Team schließlich zu einem berüchtigten Pub in Colnbrook.

Draper’s Girl is attempting to fall off the grid, but "time off" doesn’t exist within the Organization. Additionally, her therapy sessions are working, bringing up long-buried horrors of her childhood. With a trove of data she’s acquired from Draper, she flirts with the idea of Accelerating—the method Jack Glasser uses—to make sense of it all. Amin suffers a devastating loss in Atlanta, pulling in Luke, Chas, and Quan to unravel the mystery deaths. Slowly and painfully, they peel back layers of a larger conspiracy to defraud a church—a plan crafted by Organization members.

When McGarvey’s best friend, Otto, is charged with treason, Mac and his wife, Petey, set out on a desperate odyssey to clear Otto’s name. Crossing oceans and continents, their journey will take them from Japan to the US to Pakistan to Russia. Caught in a Kremlin crossfire between two warring intel agencies, Mac and Petey must fight for their lives every step of the way.

Con una sensibilidad especial y una profundidad que pocos narradores consiguen, esta novela nos relata el viaje de dos hermanastros por las costas de Cádiz y Huelva en pos de un pasado esquivo. Un intento por reconstruir las piezas de un puzle cuyo resultado es el enigma ocurrido una mañana de noviembre de 1970. En el viaje, como en todos, nuestros dos protagonistas dejarán parte de sí mismos en el camino.

Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the company to which he sold the mine. A former acquaintance from his days in South Africa has shown up and claims that he has the original deed to the mine and that he is in fact the owner of the mine. Shortly after a meeting with Deane, the man is found murdered and the deed he claims to have had is missing. Another man which Deane hired to negotiate the return of the deed to Deane is accused of the murder, tried, and sentenced to death.

London, 1942. OSS Agent Conor Thorn is desperate for a second chance. After a botched mission in Tangier, Thorn knows failure is not an option. When confidential directives for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa, go missing, the agent must recover the plans before the Nazis thwart the crucial mission. Thorn teams up with MI6 agent Emily Bright to seek out the traitor in their midst. Untangling the web of suspects leads them to Nazi sympathizers, double-crossing Soviet spies, and Vatican clergymen with motives of their own.

My motivation to escape to an equestrian lifestyle in the countryside was to experience a pleasant respite from the hectic pace and often callous and compassionless interactions of the city. But despite the allure of the charming rural scenery with elegant dressage shows and exciting jumping competitions, I soon learned that beneath the veneer of gentrified civility history often has a disquieting tendency to repeat itself.

When the head of the French DST, Philip Rostand, an old friend of Jordan Fletcher, comes to FSI and provides information that he and his counterpart at MI5 have credible intelligence that Group 45, due to past setbacks, is in financial difficulty and may be using their new nemesis, “The Broker”, to gain a treasure trove in the Caribbean, Jake and Mike are sent to investigate.

Following a traumatic event, a young woman with undiscovered extrasensory perception finds herself battling sinister forces determined to stop her from uncovering a long-buried and mysterious family secret. Barbara Roselia Vance excelled in high school, earned a BS degree in math, and a master's in computer science from the University of Chicago. She turned down scholarship offers to Ivy League schools to stay in Chicago to look after her cancer-stricken mother. She worked for a successful company.

Strange happenings and visitations start to haunt a Norfolk village when Tim, the local builder, discovers a stone slab concealing the entrance to an ancient pit. Evidence of a long forgotten and shameful event from the distant past is revealed, and in a race against time it becomes clear that only in the darkness of the pit can an answer be found.

From the criminal underbellies of Little Odessa and New York’s Chinatown, Noah Reid rescues two groups of young girls caught in human trafficking. As illegals, it’s up to Noah to protect them from their terrible options: deportation or sexual slavery. One of the depraved masters is a brutal Russian mob leader. The other, the steroid-fueled son of a Triad leader Noah took down. He wants not only the girls but the family fortune that Noah has seized. The two form an uneasy alliance to launch battle on Noah. The spoils of war are innocent girls whose lives have barely begun.