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Mysteries in English on Audiofy Bookchips

Mysteries in English on Audiofy Bookchips Get your favorite literature and books on Audiofy Bookchips, compact digital memory cards that can hold five, 10, 15 hours of spoken audio or more. Bookchips are compact digital memory cards that can hold five, ten, fifteen hours of spoken audio or more. A single Bookchip - not much larger than a postage stamp - can hold entire audiobooks that would traditionally require a half-dozen to a dozen compact discs or cassettes. Bookchips work on many desktop computers, laptops, other handheld PDA devices and mobile Smartphones with SD memory card slots. Bookchips move seamlessly from device to device, remembering your listening position each time. With Bookchips, it's easy to pick up from where you left off the day before, or skip to any chapter you like. Not only do Bookchips hold hours and hours of high-quality digital audio, they are rugged and reliable. Bookchips are completely electronic, and can be played by devices without any spinning or moving parts - which means Bookchips never skip! Bookchips are much easier to travel or exercise with than cassette or compact discs... and lighter, too. Mysteries |  Orson Scott Card |  Agatha Christie |  Conan Doyle |  Stuart M. Kaminsky |  Ngaio Marsh |  Spider Robinson |  Georges Simenon |  Rex Stout Other Bookchips:   Fiction |  Classics |  Children's |  History

  Mysteries

Adventures in Time and Space with Max Merriwell by Pat Murphy Narrated by Johanna Ward | Duration: 10 hours Cruise into murder, mayhem, and alternate realities with this book, an engaging science-fiction romp that takes listeners on board a luxury cruise ship and into the strange confluence of time and space known as the Bermuda Triangle. $54.95

The Best Defense by Kate Wilhelm Narrated by Anna Fields When the sister of "Baby Killer" Kennerman asks for help, attorney Barbara Holloway reluctantly looks into matters and finds that incompetent lawyers and a smear campaign from the local right-wing press are going to allow a killer to go free. $54.95

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Yuri Rasovsky Narrated by John De Lancie and a full cast | Duration: 1.5 hours Inspired by a 1919 silent film, this chilling adaptation of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari won the Independent Publisher Award in 1998 for best direct-to-audio production. John De Lancie stars as a young man who visits a fair one night with his friend and girlfriend. Entering Dr. Caligari's tent, they meet the mysterious Cesare, a somnambulist, who is neither alive nor dead. Similar to an old-time radio play, this production, directed by award-winning producer Yuri Rasovsky, includes eerie sound effects and is multi-cast. Prepare for a supernatural thrill! $33.95

Call for the Dead by John le Carre Narrated by Frederick Davidson | Duration: 5.5 hours Call for the Dead introduces the world's most famous undercover operative, George Smiley. Here is le Carre at his best, as he employs special techniques of espionage together with sustained action and a grandly conceived plot. $42.95

City of Masks by Daniel Hecht Narrated by Anna Fields | Duration: 16 hours When Lila Beauforte sees ghostly apparitions in her ancestral home in old New Orleans, Cree Black is called on to help. Cree, a Harvard-educated parapsychologist, is a "ghost buster" but one who must also struggle to keep her own ghosts at bay. $75

Crocodile on the Sandbank by Elizabeth Peters Narrated by Susan O'Malley | Duration: 9 hours Amelia Peabody, that indomitable Victorian, embarks on her first Egyptian adventure armed with unshakable self-confidence, a journal to record her thoughts, and her sturdy umbrella. On her way, Amelia rescues a young woman and helps her elude her rascally lover. $49.95

The Cure by Jack D. Hunter Narrated by William Dufris | Duration: 11.5 hours Controversial oncologist Dr. Anson Lunt dies in a suspicious plane crash just as one of his researchers develops what appears to be a cure for all forms of cancer. How far will the world's movers and shakers go to control - or destroy - the miraculous panacea? $61.95

The Dead Sea Cipher by Elizabeth Peters Narrated by Grace Conlin | Duration: 8.5 hours Dinah Van der Lyn hears the cries for help through her hotel room wall, cries in English in the middle of Beirut. That was the beginning of an odyssey of terror that takes Dinah to Sidon, Tyre, Damascus, and Jerusalem, racing through twisting streets, not knowing if the man she is following will lead her to safety or into a deadly trap. $44.95

Death Goes on Retreat by Sister Carol Anne O'Marie Narrated by Marguerite Gavin | Duration: 7.5 hours Sister Mary Helen makes a perfectly innocent mistake and arrives at St. Colette's Retreat House a week early. Mary Helen, accompanied by her old friend Sister Eileen, encounter not only a boisterous group of hard-drinking pastors but also a dead body. Someone has killed a former seminary student and left his corpse under the glorious mountain pines. $44.95

Death at Wentwater Court by Carola Dunn Narrated by Bernadette Dunne | Duration: 6.5 hours This first installment of a cozy mystery series transports listeners to the bygone era of 1923 Britain, where unflappable flapper and fledgling journalist Daisy Dalrymple daringly embarks on her first writing assignment - and promptly discovers a corpse. $42.95

The Eagle Heist by Raymond Austin Narrated by Raymond Todd | Duration: 8.5 hours An Eagle Security armored truck carrying sixteen million dollars disappears. Six months later, with the case gone cold, private investigator Beauford Sloan leaves the serenity of his Blue Ridge Mountain ranch and takes the case. $44.95

The Expendable Spy by Jack D. Hunter Narrated by Brian Emerson | Duration: 8.5 hours Set amidst the undercover war between the Gestapo and Soviet agents during the collapse of the Third Reich, The Expendable Spy is the hair-raising novel of an audacious American who uncovers a secret so appalling that his own intelligence office orders his execution. $44.95

The Flight of the Phoenix by Elleston Trevor Narrated by Grover Gardner | Duration: 7 hours They are twelve men who shouldn't be alive. They have survived the sudden blinding sandstorm that crippled their air freighter. Survived a desperate crash landing in the Sahara. Survived to face the slow, dry, agonizing death of the desert. Twelve men with one hope: to build a new plane from the wreckage of their Skytruck and make a flight out of hell. $44.95

Great Detective Stories by Doyle, Chesterton, Poe Narrated by David Case | Duration: 2 hours An anthology featuring famous sleuths: Edgar Allan Poe's The Purloined Letter, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Crooked Man and G.K. Chesterlon's The Man in the Passage. $34.95

The Hermit of Eyton Forest by Ellis Peters Narrated by Roe Kendall | Duration: 8.5 hours The year is 1142, and all England is in the iron grip of civil war. When a young pupil at the abbey disappears and a corpse is found in Eyton Forest, Brother Cadfael is once more forced to leave the tranquility of his herb garden and devote his knowledge of human nature to tracking down a ruthless murderer. $44.95

The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips Narrated by Grover Gardner | Duration: 4.5 hours It's Christmas Eve, 1979, in Wichita, and Charlie Arglist, a crooked lawyer and strip-club owner, is drunkenly making the rounds before he blows town for good. Getting progressively drunker and deeper in trouble, Charlie needs to drop off a photograph of a local official in a compromising position and steal some drug money. Before it's all over, a lot of people are going to wind up dead. $38.95

Legend in Green Velvet by Elizabeth Peters Narrated by Grace Conlin | Duration: 7 hours It is a dream come true for Susan, who loves all things Scottish, when she gets to go on an archaeological dig in the Highlands. But a cryptic message slipped to Susan by a sinister soapbox orator is the first puzzle. And why are she and Jamie Erskine being pursued by the police who want to talk to them about murder? $44.95

Love Her to Death by Linda Palmer Narrated by Celeste Lawson | Duration: 8 hours Following the success of Linda Palmer's first book in the series, Love Is Murder, listeners are treated to the return of Morgan Tyler, feisty head writer for the TV soap opera "Love of My Life." Her imagination is always at work, churning out the scenes that fill many a fan's daytime with drama. But when fiction becomes stranger (and more deadly) than art, Morgan is forced to rely on her ingenuity to save herself from "early cancellation." $44.95

Midnight Cab by James W. Nichol Narrated by Scott Brick | Duration: 12 hours A terrified three-year-old boy is found clinging to a wire fence at the side of a country road. The only clue found by authorities as to the child's identity is a photograph of two little girls and a letter. Sixteen years later, Walker Devereaux is in Toronto to discover the truth about his biological mother. Working as an after-hours cabdriver, Walker befriends Krista, a smart-alecky, wheelchair-bound night dispatcher. Together, they search for a key to Walker's past. But their after-hours sleuthing veers them ever closer to another who has become the embodiment of desperate, violent, and sinister pathologies. $61.95

A Mortal Bane by Roberta Gellis Narrated by Nadia May | Duration: 12 hours Magdalene la Bâtarde is the madam of the Old Priory Guesthouse in Southwark. People expect her and her women to indulge in a number of sinful activities, but bloody murder isn't one of them. Then Baldassare, the messenger, dies. The Bishop of Winchester, who was served for many years by Baldassare, puts Sir Bellamy of Itchen, his most trusted knight, in charge of the investigation. Sir Bellamy must find out how and why Baldassare died or else watch the beautiful, mysterious Magdalene meet her fate on the gallows. $61.95

In the Name of Ishmael by Giuseppe Genna Narrated by Grover Gardner | Duration: 14.5 hours A dark, complex thriller set in fogbound, wintry Milan, In the Name of Ishmael is the story of a secret cult of assassins and the two detectives who set out to reveal the true identity of Ishmael, the group's heavily protected and enigmatic leader. $72.95

Requiem at the Refuge by Sister Carol Anne O'Marie Narrated by Marguerite Gavin | Duration: 8.5 hours When a young woman from the Refuge, a shelter for homeless women, is found murdered in the alley, Sister Mary Helen goes to work searching for clues. Listeners will be happy to find that age doesn?t seem to be slowing Mary Helen down a bit. $44.95

Psycho by Robert Block Narrated by Kevin McCarthy | Duration: 2.5 hours The electrifying classic tale of terror and suspense. Mary Crane was on the run. In fear and confusion, she took a wrong turn during a wild storm - onto a dark, lonely road with only one place to stay - THE BATES MOTEL. Welcome to Hell, Mary. Maybe you should skip the shower. Robert Bloch wrote this murderous masterpiece in 1959. Alfred Hitchcock made the famous film version one year later. People have avoided back road motels ever since. Kevin McCarthy (Twilight Zone - The Movie, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Innerspace) reads with frightening flare. $29.95

The Rosewood Casket by Sharyn McCrumb Narrated by C.M. Hebert | Duration: 10.5 hours Randall Stargill's passing causes a dilemma, both for his sons, who must decide what to do with the family farm, and for Nora Bonesteel, who presents a small box that must be buried with Randall. When the box is found to hold the bones of a child, Sheriff Spencer Arrowood is brought into the matter. $54.95

Shadows on the Ivy by Lea Wait Narrated by Nadia May | Duration: 13 hours Maggie Summer's life is full, with her antique print business, her career as a community college professor, and the new man in her life. Then one of the students is poisoned, and the web of danger threatens to encircle Maggie. $56.95

Skull Session by Daniel Hecht Narrated by Christopher Lane | Duration: 17.5 hours Despite his brilliance, Paul Skoglund hasn't held a steady job for years, partly because of his Tourette's syndrome, a neurological disorder that forces his body into wild swings and to blurt out words that are hilariously, often tragically inappropriate. When his eccentric, wealthy aunt asks him to take on the repairs of her magnificent hunting lodge, he is in no position to refuse. But inside the lodge lies a scene of almost superhuman destruction: a violence now mirrored by a series of disappearances and deaths haunting the region. As Paul delves in to the wreckage, he can't help but wonder what dark passion-- and what strength could cause such chaos. Janet -- Paul's icy ex-wife, plans to use his condition to wrest away custody of their young son. And in his otherwise uncertain world, Paul is sure of one thing: nothing and no one is going to come between him and Mark. But quickening events lead him deeper into his family's past, and as Paul faces the darker aspects of his own nature, he must brave the possibility that in saving those he loves, he might well destroy himself. $79

Tailspin by Jack D. Hunter Narrated by Barrett Whitener | Duration: 11.5 hours In 1945, just after the German surrender, a fleet of B-17s disappears without a trace. When Major Kaufmann tries to follow up, his contacts are murdered before he can reach them - and he knows he's next on the list. $61.95

Tales for a Stormy Night by Various Narrated by Various | Duration: 8.5 hours It's midnight. Turn out the lights, cuddle with your true love, and shiver to tales from the greatest fright-meisters in the world. This volume of late-night listening offers tales, plays, and poems, along with music and sound effects, for lovers of the macabre. $44.95

Tales for a Winter's Night by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Narrated by William Sutherland | Duration: 8.5 hours Tales for a Winter's Night brings together eight Arthur Conan Doyle mystery classics that originally appeared in The Strand between July 1898 and January 1899. When the stories were first gathered into one volume in 1908, the book was titled Round the Fire Stories because the author intended they be read ideally "round the fire" on a winter's night. According to Barzun and Taylor in A Catalogue of Crime, "As one reads "The Man with the Watches," "The Lost Special," "The Jew's Breastplate," "The Black Doctor," and the rest, one marvels again at Doyle's natural gift of storytelling... The stories are worth reading even around a radiator." $44.95

Trick of the Eyes by Jane Stanton Hitchcock Narrated by Anna Fields | Duration: 10 hours New York artist Faith Crowell is commissioned to paint the ballroom of a wealthy woman's Long Island mansion. When Faith learns that the woman's daughter was murdered years before and that Faith herself strongly resembles the dead girl, she becomes obsessed with finding out the truth about the past. $54.95

Weeping by Shelly Reuben Narrated by Anna Fields | Duration: 8 hours "Weeping," an arson investigator's term, is the usual emotional state of survivors of a fire. Thus suspicion arises when arson investigator Tilly Quilter meets the seemingly unconcerned Faith Browning, whose sister has just burned to death in their family home. $44.95

Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers Narrated by Nadia May | Duration: 5 hours Dorothy L. Sayers, long considered one of the top mystery authors of our day, has excelled herself in this delightfully macabre tale that centers around the disappearance of a wealthy financier and the discovery of a nude corpse, wearing a golden pince-nez in a bathtub. Sayers's most renowned amateur detective, the engaging and amusing Lord Peter Wimsey, sets out to unravel this puzzling case under the jealous eye of Scotland Yard. $42.95

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  Orson Scott Card

The Lost Boys by Orson Scott Card Narrated by Stefan Rudnicki | Duration: 16 hours From the best-selling storyteller Orson Scott Card comes a gripping story of terror within a small town. In this thriller, a withdrawn eight-year-old in a troubled family invents imaginary friends who bear the names of missing children. $75

The Worthing Saga by Orson Scott Card Narrated by Scott Brick | Duration: 18.5 hours It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever then for a long, long time. Somec created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years. It allowed great plans to be put into motion. It allowed interstellar empires to be built. It came near to destroying humanity. After a long, long time of decadence and stagnation, a few seed ships were sent out to save our species. Each carried human embryos and supplies and teaching robots and one man. The Worthing Saga is the story of one of these men, Jason Worthing, and the world he found for the seed he carried. $89

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  Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie Mystery Collection by Agatha Christie Narrated by David Suchet, Robin Bailey | Duration: 20 hours Agatha Christie continues to shine bright in her new Mystery Collection, which includes: Murder on the Orient Express: An American businessman is stabbed to death aboard the luxury train, the Orient Express, snowbound in the middle of Europe. Nothing escapes the eagle eye and quick intelligence of the great Hercule Poirot, and clues abound. Sorting through a dozen perfectly respectable passengers - all suspects - Poirot is tenacious in his pursuit of the truth. The Mysterious Affair at Styles: Dapper, brilliant Monsieur Poirot, retired as the Chief of Belgian police, is summoned to a magnificent old English country estate to solve a murder. The victim: a wealthy heiress. The suspects: her fortune-hunting husband, her jealous relatives, her hired companion. The solution: a deadly scheme that is revealed by the master detective himself. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: Dr. Sheppard, the character who narrates this remarkable tale, suspects that his new neighbor, with his polished, finicky ways, his foreign accent, and his enormous moustache, must be a retired hairdresser. But the peculiarly brutal murder of wealthy neighbor Roger Ackroyd reveals the truth: that funny little man is actually a retired detective, Hercule Poirot. $129

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie Narrated by David Suchet | Duration: 7 hours Savor one of the most clever of Christie's suspenseful classics. An American businessman is stabbed to death aboard the luxury train, the Orient Express, snowbound in the middle of Europe. Nothing escapes the eagle eye and quick intelligence of the great Hercule Poirot, and clues abound. Sorting through a dozen perfectly respectable passengers - all suspects - Poirot is tenacious in his pursuit of the truth. $49.95

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie Narrated by Robin Bailey | Duration: 7 hours Shattering traditions, this ingeniously tricky masterpiece startled fans, stunned critics, and has remained one of the most controversial mysteries ever written, ever since its original 1926 publication. Dr. Sheppard, the character who narrates this remarkable tale, suspects that his new neighbor, with his polished, finicky ways, his foreign accent, and his enormous moustache, must be a retired hairdresser. But the peculiarly brutal murder of wealthy neighbor Roger Ackroyd reveals the truth: that funny little man is actually a retired detective, Hercule Poirot. $49.95

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie Narrated by David Suchet | Duration: 6 hours Dame Agatha Christie's first book, introducing Hercule Poirot, mystery fiction's greatest detective. Dapper, brilliant Monsieur Poirot, retired as the Chief of Belgian police, is summoned to a magnificent old English country estate to solve a murder. The victim: a wealthy heiress. The suspects: her fortune-hunting husband, her jealous relatives, her hired companion. The solution: a deadly scheme that is revealed by the master detective himself. $49.95

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie Narrated by Ralph Cosham | Duration: 6.5 hours Agatha Christie begins the illustrious career of detective extraordinaire Hercule Poirot in this 1920 mystery classic. The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie. It is her first novel, and introduces the characters of Hercule Poirot, Chief Inspector Japp and Captain Arthur Hastings. $39.95

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  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Adventure of Six Napoleons by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Narrated by Edward Raleigh | Duration: 2.5 hours In 1894, tiring of the famous detective, Arthur Conan Doyle attempted to exterminate him in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The clamor of his admirers forced Doyle to resurrect Holmes in The Return of Sherlock Holmes. This title (the second in the Stories from the Return of Sherlock Holmes collection) contains more memorable adventures featuring Sherlock Holmes after his miraculous return from oblivion. A lunatic is roaming London, seeking out and smashing Napoleonic sculpted busts. Holmes wonders, is he as addled as he seems, or is there a method to his madness? Also included: The Adventure of the Golden Pince-Nez and The Adventure of the Missing Three-Quarter. Arthur Conan Doyle conceived the Sherlock Holmes stories to augment his income from an unsuccessful medical practice and they quickly made him famous. Sherlock Holmes remains the world's most famous detective. Edward Releigh's reading is utterly convincing and highly entertaining. $29.95

Great Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes Mysteries Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Narrated by Ralph Cosham | Duration: 4.5 hours Six stories: Musgrave Ritual, The Red-Headed League, The Resident Patient, The Specked Band, The Boscombe Valley Mystery, The Final Problem. AUDIO BEST OF THE YEAR - Publishers Weekly "Cosham delivers a classic, scholarly reading with fine pacing, clear diction, and an astute sense of dialogue." - The Christian Science Monitor “This production is first rate Horror Audio.” - Audio World $39.95

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Narrated by Walter Covell | Duration: 10.5 hours The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, originally published in 1894, by Arthur Conan Doyle. The twelve stories of the Memoirs are: The Adventure of Silver Blaze, The Adventure of the Cardboard Box, The Adventure of the Yellow Face, The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk, The Adventure of the Gloria Scott, The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual, The Adventure of the Reigate Squire, The Adventure of the Crooked Man, The Adventure of the Resident Patient, The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter, The Adventure of the Naval Treaty, The Adventure of the Final Problem. $57.95

Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle Narrated by Ralph Cosham | Duration: 5.5 hours In this most famous of mysteries, Sherlock Holmes tackles the mystery of the demonic hound, the curse of the Baskerville family. The Hound of the Baskervilles is a crime novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, originally serialised in the Strand Magazine in 1901 and 1902, which is set largely on Dartmoor 1889. At the time of researching the novel, Conan Doyle was a General Practitioner in Plymouth, and thus was able to explore the moor and accurately capture its mood and feel. In the novel, the detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson are called to investigate a curse which is alleged to be on the house of the Baskervilles. AUDIO BEST OF THE YEAR - Publishers Weekly $39.95

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  Stuart M. Kaminsky

Catch a Falling Clown by Stuart M. Kaminsky Narrated by Tom Parker | Duration: 7 hours Toby Peters, the Hollywood private eye, finds trouble under the big top when his services are required by Emmett Kelly. A circus elephant has been electrocuted, and Kelly fears for his life. Toby goes undercover as a clown with some bizarre characters, including a beautiful snake charmer and a baffling witness named Alfred Hitchcock. It's all in a day's work for Toby Peters. $44.95

The Fala Factor by Stuart M. Kaminsky Narrated by Tom Parker | Duration: 9 hours The year is 1942, and Eleanor Roosevelt is convinced that there is an imposter in the White House masquerading as Fala, FDR's prized Scottie. Positive that a shady veterinarian has absconded with the genuine pooch, Eleanor turns for help to that much battered and near penniless private eye Toby Peters, who is never one to refuse a lady in distress, much less the First Lady. $54.95

Never Cross a Vampire by Stuart M. Kaminsky Narrated by Tom Parker | Duration: 6 hours Bela Lugosi, the actor who introduced millions to Count Dracula, has just received his latest death threat, a hatbox containing a small bat with a tiny stake impaled through its heart. Toby Peters agrees to sleuth for the culprit. His business doubles in sound and fury when William Faulkner, the nation's most distinguished author gone Hollywood, is accused of killing a movie agent he hardly knew. $42.95

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  Ngaio Marsh

Black As He's Painted by Ngaio Marsh Narrated by Nadia May | Duration: 8.5 hours When the president of Ng'ombwana proposes to dispense with the usual security arrangements on an official visit to London, his old schoolmate, Chief Superintendent Alleyn, is called in to try to persuade him otherwise. Alleyn does so. However, an assassin does strike, and Alleyn discovers a wealth of suspects residing in the very shadow of the embassy. $44.95

Death on the Air by Ngaio Marsh Narrated by Nadia May | Duration: 7 hours Death on the Air and Other Stories serves as the perfect introduction to Ngaio Marsh and her creation, Inspector Roderick Alleyn, or as a nostalgic journey for their many fans. The book concludes with a script written for the television series Crown Court. $44.95

Death at the Bar by Ngaio Marsh Narrated by Nadia May | Duration: 8.5 hours After an evening of friendly darts and vintage brandy, a distinguished barrister is in no condition to leave. In fact, the poor fellow's expired. Everyone in the pub swears the death was caused by a dart that punctured the victim's finger, but to Inspector Roderick Alleyn, the "accident" was really a case of murder. $44.95

Death of a Fool by Ngaio Marsh Narrated by Nadia May | Duration: 10 hours At the winter solstice, South Mardian's swordsmen weave their blades in an ancient ritual dance. Then an unexpected decapitation turns the fertility rite into a pageant of death. Now Inspector Roderick Alleyn must penetrate not only the mysteries of folklore but also the secrets and sins of an eccentric group, including a surly blacksmith, a domineering dowager, and a not-so-simple village idiot. $54.95

Last Ditch by Ngaio Marsh Narrated by Nadia May | Duration: 8.5 hours Young Ricky Alleyn has come to a picturesque fishing village to write. Though the sleepy little town offers few diversions, Ricky manages to find the most distracting one of all: murder. In a muddy ditch, he sees a dead equestrienne whose last leap was anything but an accident. When Ricky himself disappears, the case becomes a horse of a different color for his father, Inspector Roderick Alleyn. $44.95

Spinsters in Jeopardy by Ngaio Marsh Narrated by Nadia May | Duration: 10 hours Inspector Roderick Alleyn glimpses from a train the shocking scene of a murder in progress. Thus begins his exploration of the Chateau of the Silver Goat, where death threatens a spinster--and even Alleyn's own son. $54.95

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  Spider Robinson

Callahan's Con by Spider Robinson Narrated by Barrett Whitener | Duration: 10 hours In Jake Stonebender's little Key West bar, Fast Eddie Costignan learned to curse back at parrots as he played the house piano, the Reverend Tom Hauptman learned to tend bar bare-chested without blushing, and Long-Drink McGonnigle discovered the margarita and several senoritas. Nobody even noticed them save the universe. After ten slow, merry years, their laid-back existence is disturbed by a malevolent, moronic mastodon of a Mafioso named Toney Donuts, Jr., intending to resurrect the classic protection racket. Then, thanks to very poor accessorizing, Jake's wife Zoey picks the wrong belt to wear and suddenly finds herself in a place with no light, no heat, no air, and no way home. The urgent question of where she was turned out to be a problem so complex that even the entire gang, equipped with telepathy, teleportation, and time travel might not be able to crack it in time. $54.95

Callahan's Key by Spider Robinson Narrated by Barrett Whitener | Duration: 12.5 hours The universe is in desperate peril. Due to a cluster of freakish phenomena, the United States' own defense system has become a doomsday machine, threatening the entire universe. Only one man can save everything-as-we-know-it from annihilation. Unfortunately, he's not available. So the job falls instead to bar owner Jake Stonebender, his wife Zoey, and their superintelligent toddler, Erin, not to mention two dozen busloads of ex-hippies and freaks, Robert Heinlein's wandering cat, a whorehouse parrot, and misunderstood genius-inventor, Nikola Tesla, who is in fact alive and well. $66.95

Very Bad Deaths by Spider Robinson Narrated by Spider Robinson | Duration: 7.5 hours The heartbroken recluse. . .The hardboiled cop. . .The walking wounded telepath. . .And the serial killer. Russell Walker retreats from the shock of his wife's death by becoming a hermit in the woods of British Columbia. There he finds himself thrust into a precarious role as intermediary- between a telepath called Smelly so sensitive he can't stand to be near most people-and Constable Nika, a skeptical police officer who needs Smelly's insight to track down a monstrous serial killer. $44.95

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  Georges Simenon

Maigret and the Killer by Georges Simenon Narrated by Full Cast Production | Duration: 3 hours When the son of a wealthy perfume manufacturer is stabbed to death, his parents reveal to Maigret that he was a loner who wandered Paris taping people's conversations. Among his recordings is that of a group of people conspiring to pull off an art theft, one of them a sailor known to pack a Swedish switchblade. As police interrogate the gang and a high-powered lawyer prepares an elaborate defense, Maigret steps back and patiently waits for the real killer to reveal himself. Also included: Maigret Sets a Trap and Maigret's Christmas. $29.95

Maigret and the Reluctant Witness by Georges Simenon Narrated by Full Cast Production | Duration: 2.5 hours In a deteriorating family mansion, the son of a biscuit maker whose reputation has been tarred by the spectre of dirty money is murdered in an apparent burglary. Skeptical about the circumstances of the crime, Maigret locates an estranged family member, who becomes the key to reconstructing a tangled saga of jealousy, intrigue - and desperation. Also included: Maigret Hesitates and Maigret in Society. $29.95

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  Rex Stout

Nero Wolfe Mystery Collection by Rex Stout Narrated by Michael Prichard | Duration: 25.5 hours We are excited to offer you this Rex Stout Three-Pack featuring the incomparable Nero Wolfe, which includes: Fer-de-Lance: When a fer-de-lance, one of the most dreaded snakes known to man, is given to Nero Wolfe, Archie knows he's getting very close to solving the clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. The investigation proceeds from the brownstone on West 35th Street as the listener is entertained by the symbiotic relationship of Wolfe and Goodwin. The League of Frightened Men: This second mystery featuring eccentric detective Nero Wolfe and his able assistant, Archie Goodwin, is deemed "the most interesting psychological study... and a treasure trove for a rich variety of Wolfean aphorisms," according to Robert Goldsborough's introduction to Bantam's Crime Line edition. The Rubber Band: What do a wild-west lynching and a respected English nobleman have in common? This third Nero Wolfe mystery solves a questionable homicide amidst a corporate high-finance scandal. $129

Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout Narrated by Michael Prichard | Duration: 8.5 hours This first mystery from one of America's best-loved writers introduces one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time - Nero Wolfe. When a fer-de-lance, one of the most dreaded snakes known to man, is given to Nero Wolfe, Archie knows he's getting very close to solving the clever murders of an immigrant and a college president. The investigation proceeds from the brownstone on West 35th Street as the listener is entertained by the symbiotic relationship of Wolfe and Goodwin. $54.95

The League Of Frightened Men by Rex Stout Narrated by Michael Prichard | Duration: 9 hours From one of America's best-loved writers, Rex Stout. This second mystery featuring eccentric detective Nero Wolfe and his able assistant, Archie Goodwin, is deemed "the most interesting psychological study... and a treasure trove for a rich variety of Wolfean aphorisms," according to Robert Goldsborough's introduction to Bantam's Crime Line edition. $54.95

The Rubber Band by Rex Stout Narrated by Michael Prichard | Duration: 8 hours What do a wild-west lynching and a respected English nobleman have in common? This third Nero Wolfe mystery solves a questionable homicide amidst a corporate high-finance scandal. Reader Michael Prichard was named one of the "Top Ten Golden Voices" by SmartMoney magazine. $54.95

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