BBC Radio.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
The body in the library. Who is the strange young blonde lying strangled on the library floor at Gossington Hall? Miss Marple must piece the clues together. A murder is announced. A murder is announced to take place at Little Paddocks. Is it a game? Miss Marple finds out. The mirror crack'd from side to side. When former film star Marina Gregg and her husband throw a benefit party for a local hospital, the day ends in tragedy when a guest has a poisoned...
Author
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Society's eligible women are in mourning. Lord Peter Wimsey has married at last, having finally succeeded in his ardent pursuit of the lovely mystery novelist Harriet Vane. The two depart for a tranquil honeymoon in a country farmhouse, but find, instead of a well-prepared love nest, the place left in shambles by the previous owner. His sudden appearance, dead from a broken skull in the cellar, only prompts more questions. Why would anyone have wanted...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010], p2007
Language
English
Description
Ireland is neither cursed with snakes, nor blessed with nightingales, and the characters in Maeve Binchy's fiction occupy the same middle ground. These five stories feature modern Irishwomen emerging from a culture where they knew their place into a more hazardous, but more rewarding light.
49) Dumb witness
Author
Pub. Date
p2007
Language
English
Description
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 great distress and seeking his help, but doesn't say why. Her only specific mention is "the incident of the dog's ball." However, what intrigues Poirot is the date of the communication--it was written two months ago. He persuades Captain Hastings that they...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The moving finger. In the quiet town of Lymstock, a brother and sister receive a harassing letter. They soon discover other town residents have received similar letters and when one recipient commits suicide, Miss Marple helps cast light on the matter. Sleeping murder. When Gwenda Reed finds a house for her and her husband in the town of Dillmouth, she experiences a strange sense of déjà vu. MIss Marple realizes that an unsolved murder is behind...
Author
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
Missing: one junior diplomat and 43 of the British Embassy's most confi dential files. The timing is alarmingly significant: with neo-Nazi riots and radical student demonstrations, the threat to Germany's security is all too apparent. Britain's own Alan Turner is sent in, with instructions to tread carefully at all costs. But will he find the missing man and the files before the political situation erupts?
Author
Pub. Date
[2010], p2008
Language
English
Description
This 90-part narrative history is divided into three series of 30 programs. It tells the story through the voices of those who were there--presidents and farmers, mothers and children, slaves and Indians. It celebrates the American achievement--settling a harsh continent, breaking free of British rule, becoming the global powerhouse of goods and popular culture.
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.
59) 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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008], p1998, 2005
Language
English
Description
Arthur Dent never could get the hang of Thursdays. On this particular Thursday, his house is set to be demolished and his friend Ford Prefect turns out to be from a star named Betelgeuse (and not, after all, from Guildford). Furthermore, it turns out that the whole Earth is scheduled for demolition by the Vogons to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. The irony of the situation is almost lost on Arthur as he and Ford hitch an intergalactic ride away...