BBC Audiobooks America.
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Under the stifling summer sun, Venice is flooded with tourism. Commissario Guido Brunetti is planning the perfect mountain vacation where he can catch up on his reading. However, before he can go, an old friend has him look into a court corruption case. As he probes deeper, Commissario Brunetti quickly becomes embroiled in a shocking murder case that is linked to his own investigation.
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BBC Audiobooks America
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[2009]
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6 sound discs (7 hr, 34 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Originally published in 1946, The Silent Speaker unfolds yet another mystery starring the vainglorious detective Nero Wolfe and his quick-thinking assistant Archie Goodwin. When Cheney Boone, the Director of the Bureau of Price Regulation, is murdered with a monkey wrench just minutes before he presents a speech at a National Industrial Association dinner, the Association hires Nero Wolfe to solve the troubling murder mystery.
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Miss Marple encounters a compelling murder mystery in St. Mary Mead, where under the seemingly peaceful exterior of an English country village lurks intrigue, guilt, deception, and death. Colonel Protheroe, local magistrate and overbearing landowner is the most detested man in the village. Everyone—even in the vicar—wishes he were dead. And very soon he is—shot in the head in the vicar’s own study. Faced with a surfeit of suspects, only the...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 28
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Sir George and Lady Stubbs, the hosts of a village celebration, hit upon the novel idea of staging a mock murder mystery featuring a Murder Hunt, hosted by mystery writer Ariadne Oliver. One need only follow the game's make-believe clues to be the first to find the body. Only this time, it isn't a game, and the clues lead to a genuine corpse. Ariadne needs the help of her old friend, Hercule Poirot.
7) The keep
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From National Book Award finalist Egan comes a spellbinding work of literary suspense enacted in a chilling psychological landscape.
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BBC Audiobooks America
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p1992, 1999, c1999
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3 sound discs (2 hr., 55 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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The author and his inspector look back together over four of their greatest cases. Where is the vital report that holds the key to the fate of the French government? What is the secret behind the sudden disappearance of one of Paris' best known solicitors? And will the demented double murderer strike again?--Container.
9) The essential Agatha Christie stories: [Agatha Christie's best sleuths crack twenty famous cases]
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BBC Audiobooks America
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c2009
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12 sound discs (15 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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BBC Audiobooks America
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[2010], p2002
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6 sound discs (7 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Three single girls share a London flat. The first works as a secretary; the second is an artist; the third, who comes to Poirot for help, disappears believing she is a murderer. There are rumors of revolvers, flick-knives, and blood stains. But, without hard evidence, it will take all Poirot's tenacity to establish whether the third girl is guilty, innocent or insane.
11) Another country
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Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video
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2004
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1 DVD (107 min. [i.e. 87 min.]) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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A rueful, romantic tale of the awfulness of life in an ancient English public school in the 1930's. At its center is the friendship of Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett), a dark, Byronically handsome young man, who accepts the horrors of the school system in return for its rewards, and Tommy Judd (Colin Firth), who attends the school against his will, refuses to play the gentleman's game, and is already a Marxist. Guy falls in love with a handsome fellow...