It's the classic law of the invader. Get to the strongest guy and smash him, then watch the weaker ones fall like ninepins. Which is just what a vicious gang of horse dealers decides to do when...

When Richard Hannay offered sanctuary to the man he found on the doorstep of his London flat in the middle of the night, he took the first step on a trail of peril, murder, conspiracy and...

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 Sussex Vampire': A return to the...

Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sat the corpse of Mrs Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist was the only sign of the fatal injection that had...

What is the connection between a corpse with a missing face and a ruthless secret society which once terrorised a desolate region of the United States? With the aid of a local guidebook, a missing...

He saw the body of the naked woman. She was kneeling down in the snow, head bent right over touching the ground. He felt cold just to look at her. The young woman was Rachel Tenison, a wealthy art...

Elvis Cole is once again coming to terms with life as a PI on the streets of Los Angeles. He loves his girlfriend, but their relationship is stretched to the limit when Cole’s job brings danger...

Tim Ekaterin's bank is about to invest in a œ5million stallion called Sandcastle. But racing is riddled with all kinds of Tim Ekaterin’s merchant bank, like all banks, only invests in sure...

Penelope Keith - who starred as Agatha Raisin in the popular BBC Radio 4 series - reads the whole of M. C. Beaton's novel.
Reports of a haunted house soon have amateur sleuth Agatha Raisin...

Robert Amiss is in a mess, and he faces the indignity of life on the dole. So when his old friends in the CID ask him for help, he is in no position to refuse Strange things have been happening at...

When successful biographer Rona Parish is asked to write the life story of a recently deceased bestselling author, she is intrigued - to say the least. After all, Theo Harvey led a very colourful...

Ed Bishop stars as Philip Marlowe in this powerful and atmospheric full-cast 1978 adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s classic noir novel.The first time Marlowe sets eyes on Terry Lennox, he is...

Fran Varady knows that making friends with down-and-out “Alkie” Albie Smith on Marylebone Station is not a wise move. But Fran is a soft touch. Albie has a disturbing tale to tell—he claims...

A full-cast BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of an Agatha Christie story.On a flight from Le Bourget to Croydon, on which Hercule Poirot is an apprehensive passenger, a woman is found dead. A doctor...

We enter ‘The Last Precinct’ through the reverberating aftershocks of ‘Black Notice’, inconceivably finding Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta an object of suspicion —and...