Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired. He and his wife, Dora, now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coachhouse in Hampstead, belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. Wexford takes...

Steven Mackintosh stars as Martin Beck, with Neil Pearson as Lennart Kollberg, in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of The Laughing Policeman. The Martin Beck books are widely acknowledged as some of...

Douglas Perkins of Perkins and Tate (Public Relations) had an uncomplicated attitude to cats: take them or leave them. But when he found himself PRO to a glorified feline extravaganza known as the...

Chris Cameron is clever, charismatic, a natural leader. But he’s also a maverick fighter pilot.

When Whitehall picks up intelligence suggesting that the ruler of a former African...

A man drowns, another dies in a motorbike crash. The Mid-Yorkshire Gazette receives correspondence from someone claiming responsibility for the deaths. And, when a third murder takes place,...

October, 1940: the London borough of West Ham is in the grip of yet another night of bombing, and undertaker Francis Hancock is in the grip of yet another night of temporary insanity. A veteran of...

Peter Russell lost a daughter to a serial killer. His marriage was the next casualty. Now he gets by as Mr Fixit for a film millionaire with a young wife on a big Hollywood estate, infamous for...

A brand new fully dramatised remake of the lost archive drama Paul Temple and Steve, starring Crawford Logan and Gerda StevensonFrom 1938 to 1968, crime novelist and detective Paul Temple and...

Clive Merrison and Michael Williams star as Holmes and Watson in the first collection of stories from the unique fully dramatised BBC Radio 4 canon.'The Five Orange Pips' Five orange pips...

London, 1850. Fog in the air and filth in the streets, from the rat-infested graveyard of Tom-All-Alone's to the elegant chambers in Lincoln's Inn Fields, where the lawyer Edward Tulkinghorn has...

A daughter’s death A teenage girl is found brutally murdered in her squalid flat. A mother’s love Her mother is devastated. She gave her child up to the care system, only to lose her again,...

Ian Hart stars in these BBC Radio 4 dramatisations of Patricia Highsmith’s five ‘Ripley’ novels.

Tom Ripley detests murder unless it is absolutely necessary. He prefers someone...

It is October 1918 and London is gathering in its dead. For Henry Speake of Speake & Son Undertakers, laying to rest the shattered young bodies of those sent home from the Front to die has become...

BETRAYALThey have fought for Rome in the Forgotten Legion and been press-ganged into Caesar’s legions in Alexandria, but Romulus, an ex-gladiator, and Tarquinius, an Etruscan soothsayer, are...

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...