The dignified calm of the Bellona Club is shattered when Lord Peter Wimsey finds General Fentiman dead in his favourite chair. A straighforward death by natural causes? Perhaps... but why can...

Where has George Cameron disappeared to? What deadly formula has he discovered? Why is his daughter Lucy in such terrible danger? And why was the meek chemist Tibbs so ruthlessly killed? The fate...

The great radio detective lives again in a brand new reading by Anthony Head.

Crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve made their first appearance on BBC...

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...

Richard Derrington and Deborah McAndrew star in this thrilling dramatisation of P.D. James' enduringly popular mystery.When two men are discovered with their throats cut in the vestry of St...

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in the fifth collection of stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon.'The Lion's Mane': Holmes has retired to the...

The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey is one of detective literature's most popular creations.Ian Carmichael is the personification of Dorothy L. Sayers' charming...

'A Murder of Quality', set in the early 1960s, sees George Smiley investigating a murder in a public school. When the wife of one of the masters is found bludgeoned to death, Smiley, out of...

Recently married to James Lacey, Agatha quickly finds out that it's not all 'happy ever after' - before long the newlyweds are living in separate cottages and accusing each other of infidelity....

The First Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery.

Love and death – the only two sensational things that had ever happened to Margaret Parsons. 
The police knew all about her life and, by...

Toby Stephens stars in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Raymond Chandler’s first Philip Marlowe mystery.Fast-talking, trouble-seeking private eye Philip Marlowe is a different kind...

Crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve first appeared on BBC Radio in 1938. They inhabited a sophisticated world of cocktails and fast cars, where the women were...

A brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Raymond Chandler mystery featuring private eye, Philip Marlowe.

Marlowe is now married, living in the resort town of Poodle...

John Taylor has written and created six new tales that were inspired by the original Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Simon Callow stars as Sherlock Holmes and Nicky Henson as Dr...

Chief Inspector Wexford had every reason to remember the Painter case - it was the first murder he’d ever handled on his own. There had been no mystery - Painter had done it and been hanged.