It's very easy to kill - so long as no one suspects you.' So says Miss Pinkerton when ex-policeman Luke Fitzwilliam meets her on a train. Luke doesn't take much notice of this little old lady's...

Theo is determined to seek happiness with her husband's business rival, Vincent. Having fled London for Paris, however, she soon learns of Richard's financial collapse - and discovers that rather...

Two BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations from the Queen of Crime. ‘The Unexpected Guest’ A foggy night... a lonely country house... and a woman with a gun in her hand quietly surveying the...

A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Agatha Christie mystery. ‘There’s Rosemary, that’s for remembrance.’ Published in 1945, Sparkling Cyanide is all about remembrance....

Two recently-rediscovered Hercule Poirot short stories by Agatha Christie, read by David Suchet.In 2004, a remarkable archive was unearthed at Agatha Christie’s family home, Greenway – 73 of...

Smiley, wrestling with retirement and disillusionment, is summoned to a secret meeting with a member of the Cabinet Office. Evidence has emerged that the Circus has been infiltrated at the highest...

Michael Jayston reads this classic spy thriller from bestselling author John le Carré: the first novel in the ‘Karla’ trilogy.Mr George Smiley is small, podgy and, at best, middle-aged. He...

Michael Jayston reads this captivating spy thriller from bestselling author John le Carré.George Smiley has become chief of the battered British Secret Service...The betrayals of a Soviet...

Two seemingly unconnected events heralded the summons of George Smiley from his dubious retirement.The first was an old woman in Paris promised the return of a daughter she’ll never see and...

Michael Jayston reads this compelling thriller from the master of the spy genre, John le Carré.Alec Leamas has ended his time in Berlin. Or his time has ended him. The last of his Eastern...

In 1963, the fast-moving, suspenseful serial The Desperate People kept TV audiences hooked as they tried to piece together the clues to Rex Holt's mysterious death. Now, in this exciting...

A brand new eight-part remake of the lost archive drama 'A Case for Paul Temple', starring Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson.From 1938 to 1968 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his...

Paul Temple is in the middle of a lecture tour in America when he receives an urgent summons from the Home Secretary, requesting his immediate return to England. A serial killer calling himself...

The coat was expensive. A woman's cashmere coat with the maker's name 'Margo' prominently displayed, it was dropped into the back of Paul Temple's car - possibly by the people responsible for the...

Paul Temple faces danger once again, as he and Steve become entangled in a case which see-saws from the dingy back streets of Kilburn, London, to the bracing winter atmosphere of Geneva. They must...

Carleton Hobbs stars as Sherlock Holmes in this box set containing all three volumes of the classic full-cast BBC Radio dramas.In these twelve classic stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, Carleton...

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in this story, part of the second collection from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon.

An epic intellectual...

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in this story, part of the second collection from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon.

In this story, the young...

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in this story, part of the second collection from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon.

Holmes' reclusive brother...

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in this story, part of the second collection from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon.

In this story, a...