A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a small stone bridge over a quiet road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while...It is impossible for Chief...

The King of England has called upon his Mistress of the Art of Death - anatomist and doctor Adelia Aguilar - to accompany 10-year-old Princess Joanna on her 1,000 mile journey to marry the King of...

When Harriet Bean discovers, at the age of nine, that she has five aunts, she's astonished. How could her father have forgotten to mention them before? There's just one problem - she doesn't know...

When Harry Barnett is informed that his son is in hospital in a diabetic coma, he is certain that there must be some mistake, since he does not have a son. But he soon discovers that he...

In honour of H.R.F. Keating’s 80th birthday, his fellow Detection Club members and the leading lights in crime fiction serve up a new selection of tantalising conundrums.

The stories...

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

Sixteen-year-old Elvira's mother is dead. Elvira is sad, of course, but not as sad as her younger sister, Spinny. Spinny is afraid their father, Luke, will be heartbroken, but Elvira knows better...

Of course it was love for my children, love for my son, that caused me to act as I did. It was a lapse of judgement. If I could have foreseen the rippling aftershocks that followed I would have...

Inspector Ghote embarks on one of his strangest cases when he is ordered to prevent a murder – the killing of a precious flamingo in the Bombay zoo. And then there is the racehorse, fancied to...

When five women are brutally murdered in Sierra Leone, Reuters correspondent Connie Burns questions the arrest of three rebel soldiers for the crimes. No one listens. In the wake of a vicious...

Penelope Keith - who starred as Agatha Raisin in the popular BBC Radio 4 series - reads M. C. Beaton’s entertaining murder mystery.During the grey days of early December, Agatha is obsessed by...

While on patrol outside Oxford, two policemen notice a stolen car parked in a layby. On further investigation, they discover the dead body of a young woman huddled in the boot, strangled with a...

Vicky Rai, the son of a high-profile minister, has been shot dead by one of the guests at his own party. They are a glitzy bunch, but among them the police find six strange, displaced characters...

As Hercule Poirot sifts through his post one particular morning, he alights upon a letter from an elderly and (as it transpires), exceedingly rich spinster - Miss Emily Arundell. She is clearly in...

1948: Indo-China. Lee Crane is an American pilot flying demobbed air transports - C47 Dakotas - across South-East_x001A_ Asia for the highest bidder. But his experiences during the war are...