BBC Radio 4.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The Torchwood team is involved in a dangerous adventure at the real-life CERN particle accelerator project in Geneva, which is attempting to recreate the conditions following the Big Bang--no small undertaking. Voices from the past are calling out to people at the project, and scientists begin to disappear. Includes a bonus feature that goes behind the scenes of the television program.
42) Towards zero
Author
Pub. Date
[2010], p2010
Language
English
Description
Superintendent Battle of Scotland Yard struggles to find the person who penned the details of a vicious murder.
43) The high window
Author
Series
Philip Marlowe mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[2012], p2011
Language
English
Description
This BBC full-cast radio dramatization of a classic Raymond Chandler mystery features private eye Philip Marlowe. Marlowe's on a case: his client, a dried-up husk of a woman, wants him to recover a rare gold coin called a Brasher Doubloon, missing from her late husband's collection. That's the simple part.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008], p2007
Language
English
Description
Roman private eye Falco is dispatched to one of the most hostile parts of the Empire to deliver an iron hand to one of the legions. Germania is cold, wet, dismal, and full of dark forests inhabited by bloodthirsty barbarians, but Falco has an even bigger problem to worry about--he has forgotten Helena Justina's birthday, and she is being pursued by the Emperor's son Titus Caesar. As Falco makes his way through dangerous territory, he encounters the...
Author
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
In Homecoming, the Brennans run Quentin's restaurant in Dublin for the owner, who lives abroad. But what will happen when he suddenly pays a visit? Telling Stories sees Irene's fianc e turning up the night before the wedding with a face as white as the dress that is to be worn the next day. Then trouble starts. In Needy, Heather is painfully aware that Valentine's Day declarations of love should be viewed with suspicion, even if the sender is the...
Author
Pub. Date
p2001
Language
English
Description
A friend informs Lady Windermere that her husband, Lord Windermere, has paid a number of visits, and a substantial sum of money, to the disreputable Mrs. Erlynne. Deeply upset, Lady Windermere runs precipitately into the arms of another man. Ironically, it is Mrs. Erlynne who saves Lady Windermere's reputation--at further risk to her own.
Pub. Date
[2012], p2012
Language
English
Description
Lilies for the Ladies: In the first episode of the series, detective Sexton Blake investigates the unexplained murders of four wealthy society women. The Sin-Eater: An old friend of Blake's receives a series of cryptic messages written on playing cards. Bluebeard's Keys: Blake is sent a mysterious key in the post, the attached note reads: "This is Bluebeard's first key." Murder on the Portsmouth Road: In one of Britain's earliest surviving drama recordings...
49) Inspector Steine
Author
Pub. Date
[2011], p2008
Language
English
Description
Brighton in the 1950s. Inspector Steine, naive and innocent, he believes that he wiped out all the villains at a single stroke in the Middle Street Massacre when seventeen local hoodlums gunned each other to death. Fortunately, long-suffering Sergeant Brunswick is at hand to help Steine with his inquiries. Aided by keen Constable Twitten, they must find the criminal mastermind who is operating undetected in their midst.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011], p2011
Language
English
Description
The Birling family are spending a happy evening celebrating the engagement of Sheila Birling to Gerald Croft--a marriage that will result in the merging of two successful local businesses. Yet, just when everything seems to be going so well, they receive a surprise visit from an Inspector Goole who is investigating the suicide of a young girl.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010], p2009
Language
English
Description
When 24-year-old Steven Ballard is found dead, the police quickly realize that this is no ordinary case--for his body is that of a man in his seventies. They call in Torchwood to investigate, and after another corpse is found, it becomes clear that something terrible is happening. Someone is sending victims to a dark dimension, to be punished by the thing they fear most. Who is the shadowy taxi driver preying on his passengers? What significance do...
Series
Pub. Date
[2012], 2008
Language
English
Description
Following a moonquake, the tourist-cruiser "Selene" sinks fifteen meters into the dust of the Sea of Thirst. That dust is more liquid than sand, and it flows quicker than syrup and slower than water. No rescue attempt under such extraordinary conditions has ever been mounted--but now the lives of dozens of people are dependent upon it.
53) A perfect spy
Author
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
Magnus Pym, Britain's premier spy, has vanished--sending intelligence communities on a frenzied international manhunt. As the search plays out, so does a chain of clandestine operations surfacing in Washington, Vienna, Prague, London, and Berlin. But the most powerful drama of all comes from exploring Pym's background--his education as a spy, and the spectacular motives and mentors who transformed him into a master of guile and deception.