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Agatha Christie
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Published January 2007 by HarperCollins Audio at £15.99
ISBN: 0007213220
Read by Hugh Fraser
CD Edition - The Complete Book
When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada is a very difficult old lady.
But when Mrs Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs Lancaster talks about ‘something behind the fireplace’, Tommy and Tuppence find themselves caught up in an unexpected adventure involving a strange inheritance, a missing tombstone - and almost death for the redoubtable Tuppence…
‘The most macabre and eerie Christie for a long time.’ Sunday Express
Hugh Fraser plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs
About The Author
Agatha
Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots.
Agatha Christie says: 'I was born in Devonshire, and had a very happy childhood with practically no lessons and lots of time to roam about the garden and imagine things. It was my mother who told me to write. She was a woman of great charm and great character, and was always convinced that her children could do anything! I was in bed with a bad cold and she said, "You'd better write a short
story. Nonsense, don't say you can't! Of course you can!"
'For some years I enjoyed myself very much writing stories of unrelieved gloom where most of the characters died. Also a good deal of poetry and a novel with an impossible number of characters in it. Then I thought it would be fun to try and write a detective story. It was an exciting day when The Mysterious Affair at Styles was accepted and published. I was working as a dispenser at a Red Cross Hospital during
the First World War when I wrote it.
'As for my tastes, I enjoy my food, hate the taste of any kind of alcohol, have tried and tried to like smoking, but can't manage it. I adore flowers, am crazy about the sea, love the theatre, but am bored to death by the talkies (and am very stupid at following them), loathe wireless and all loud noises, dislike living in cities. I do a lot of travelling, mostly in the Near East, and have a
great love of the desert.'
In 1950 Agatha Christie celebrated the publication of her fiftieth detective novel. Messages of congratulation came to her from many eminent people, including Mr C. R. Attlee, then Prime Minister, who wrote: "I admire and delight in the ingenuity of Agatha Christie's mind and in her capacity to keep a secret until she is ready to divulge it. And I admire, also, another of her qualities, one that is not always possessed by those who produce detective stories, her ability clearly and simply to write the English language."
Born in Torquay, she was encouraged to write by Eden Phillpotts, the famous Devonshire playwright; her first book was rejected by several publishers before it was published in 1920. The wife of a distinguished archaeologist (Professor Max Mallowan of Lodon University), she assisted him in his excavations in Iraq, where he made remarkable discoveries. They lived in a Georgian house overlooking the River Dart.
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Agatha Christie
Postern of Fate
Published January 2007 by HarperCollins Audio at £15.99
ISBN: 0007212569
Read by Hugh Fraser
CD Edition - The Complete Book
Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of The Black Arrow, Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings.
However, when she writes down the letters, they spell out a very disturbing message:
Mary-Jordan-did-not-die-naturally. And sixty years after their first murder, Mary Jordan's enemies are still ready to kill...
‘Past and present interlock impressively… this is a genuine tour-de-force’ Observer
Hugh Fraser plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs
About The Author
Agatha
Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and became, quite simply, the best-selling novelist in history. She wrote 80 crime mysteries and collections, and saw her work translated into more languages than Shakespeare. Her enduring success, enhanced by many film and TV adaptations, is a tribute to the timeless appeal of her characters and the unequalled ingenuity of her plots.
Agatha Christie says: 'I was born in Devonshire, and had a very happy childhood with practically no lessons and lots of time to roam about the garden and imagine things. It was my mother who told me to write. She was a woman of great charm and great character, and was always convinced that her children could do anything! I was in bed with a bad cold and she said, "You'd better write a short
story. Nonsense, don't say you can't! Of course you can!"
'For some years I enjoyed myself very much writing stories of unrelieved gloom where most of the characters died. Also a good deal of poetry and a novel with an impossible number of characters in it. Then I thought it would be fun to try and write a detective story. It was an exciting day when The Mysterious Affair at Styles was accepted and published. I was working as a dispenser at a Red Cross Hospital during
the First World War when I wrote it.
'As for my tastes, I enjoy my food, hate the taste of any kind of alcohol, have tried and tried to like smoking, but can't manage it. I adore flowers, am crazy about the sea, love the theatre, but am bored to death by the talkies (and am very stupid at following them), loathe wireless and all loud noises, dislike living in cities. I do a lot of travelling, mostly in the Near East, and have a
great love of the desert.'
In 1950 Agatha Christie celebrated the publication of her fiftieth detective novel. Messages of congratulation came to her from many eminent people, including Mr C. R. Attlee, then Prime Minister, who wrote: "I admire and delight in the ingenuity of Agatha Christie's mind and in her capacity to keep a secret until she is ready to divulge it. And I admire, also, another of her qualities, one that is not always possessed by those who produce detective stories, her ability clearly and simply to write the English language."
Born in Torquay, she was encouraged to write by Eden Phillpotts, the famous Devonshire playwright; her first book was rejected by several publishers before it was published in 1920. The wife of a distinguished archaeologist (Professor Max Mallowan of Lodon University), she assisted him in his excavations in Iraq, where he made remarkable discoveries. They lived in a Georgian house overlooking the River Dart.
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Andrew Gross
The Blue Zone
Published June 2007 by HarperCollins Audio at £16.99
ISBN: 0007259514
Read by Ilyana Kadushin
CD VersionThere are no rules in the Blue Zone
They were the perfect family. And he was the perfect family man. One day changed it all.
Arrested for racketeering, Ben Raab must take his family into America’s Witness Protection Programme. Only his eldest daughter, Kate, chooses to stay on the outside.
But the Programme’s perfect success rate is about to come to a shocking end. A case agent is tortured to death and Ben vanishes. The one person who might be able to find him is Kate.
Pursued by killers, forced to question everything she knows about her life so far, Kate is plunged into a terrifying existence for which nothing has prepared her.
Most people would call it certain death. The FBI calls it the Blue Zone.
5 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs
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Stuart MacBride
Dying Light
Published January 2007 by HarperCollins Audio at £15.99
ISBN: 0007216823
Read by John Sessions
CD Edition
It starts with Rosie Williams, a prostitute, stripped naked and beaten to death down by the docks - the heart of Aberdeen’s red light district. For DS Logan McRae it’s a bad start to another bad day. Only a few short months ago he was the golden boy of Grampian police. But following a botched raid that leaves a PC in a coma he’s palmed off on a DI everyone knows is jinxed, waiting for the axe to fall with all the other rejects in the ‘Screw-up Squad’.
Logan’s not going to take it lying down.
He’s determined to escape DI Steel and her unconventional methods, and the best way to do that is to crack the case in double-quick time. But Rosie Williams won’t be the only one making an unscheduled trip to the morgue. Across the city six people are burning to death in a petrol-soaked squat, the doors and windows screwed shut from the outside. And despite Logan’s best efforts, it’s not long before another prostitute turns up on the slab…
5 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs
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James Patterson
Step On a Crack
Published February 2007 by Headline at £18.99
ISBN: 0755330390
And Michael Ledwidge
First came Alex Cross. Then the Women’s Murder Club.
Now meet Detective Michael Bennett, NYPD - and his ten children.
Detective Michael Bennett is about to take on the most sinister challenge of his career. The nation has fallen into mourning after the unexpected death of a beloved former first lady, and the most powerful people in the world gather in New York for her funeral. Then the inconceivable occurs. Billionaires, politicians, and superstars of every kind are suddenly trapped within one man’s brilliant and ruthless scenario. Bennett - father of ten - is pulled into the fray. As the danger escalates, Michael is hit with devastating news. After fighting for many years, his wife has succumbed to a terrible disease. As New York descends into chaos, he has lost the great love of his life and faces raising his ten devastated children alone - and rescuing thirty-four hostages.
Day after day, Bennett confronts the most ruthless man he has ever dealt with, a man who kills without hesitation and counters with impunity everything the NYPD and FBI throw at him. As the entire world watches and the tension boils to a searing heat, Bennett has to find a way out - or face responsibility for the greatest debacle in history.
From the man the Sunday Telegraph called ‘the master of the suspense genre’ comes his most fiendishly terrifying thriller yet.
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About The Author
James Patterson has written numerous international number one bestsellers. He lives in Florida. Kiss The Girls was made into a number one hit movie, and the film version of Along Came A Spider is currently out on video.
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Phil Rickman
The Remains of an Altar
Published September 2007 by Quercus at £15.99
ISBN: 1847243193
Read by Julie Maisey
In high summer, darkness descends on Elgar’s England
Shadowed by the Malvern Hills, the village of Wychehill is no rural paradise but an uneasy mix of embittered farmers, escapees from the city and a pub with a reputation for drug dealing. Called in to investigate an unsettling series of road accidents, Merrily Watkins stumbles into a barbed tangle of alienation, murder... and the fatal pursuit of an archaic secret...
‘Compassionate, original and sharply contemporary. Rickman’s crime series is one of the best around’ Spectator
‘A first class thriller with a difference’ Guardian
Julie Maisey has appeared at the Hampstead Theatre, the Royal National Theatre and on TV in The Bill, EastEnders and various sitcoms including Birds Of A Feather and Holding the Baby. Voice work includes the BAFTA-nominated and British Animation Award-winning Dad’s Dead (Best Short) and Peoples Britain (Best Comedy), and a number of cartoons for the AIR scheme with Channel 4.
4 Cassettes Running Time: 5 hrs
About The Author
Phil Rickman was born in Lancashire. He has won awards for his TV and radio journalism, and his highly acclaimed earlier novels are Candlenight, Crybbe, The Man in the Moss, December, The Chalice and The Wine of Angels. He is married and lives on the Welsh Border.
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Peter Temple
In the Evil Day
Published October 2007 by Quercus at £15.99
ISBN: 1847243215
Read by Jack Klaff
Five people lie dead on the floor of a fortified Johannesburg mansion. In his hands, the solitary survivor holds his death warrant.
Powerful men - and powerful nations - will kill to keep the videotape now in Con Niemand’s grasp buried. The tape and the man must be erased.
A pyrotechnic thriller for the 21st Century, In the Evil Day summons a world where everyone is under surveillance, where information is more dangerous than explosives and where secrets are worth more than human life.
‘A rip-roaring thriller that speeds like a bullet from an AK47 to its violent conclusion’
Irish Times
‘A towering achievement ... seldom has a waltz of the damned proved so hypnotic. Indispensable’ Guardian
Jack Klaff has performed a range of plays in West End Theatres, at the RSC and in prime venues throughout Britain and abroad including The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, The Royal Hunt of the Sun and Insignificance. His extensive TV work includes leading roles in Vanity Fair, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries and Midsomer Murders. Jack’s films include Star Wars and For Your Eyes Only. His radio roles include Oscar Wilde, Byron, and Quasimodo and he has received two Silver Sony Certificates.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 5 hrs 15 mins
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Joseph Wambaugh
Hollywood Station
Published August 2007 by Quercus at £15.99
ISBN: 1847242146
Read by Kerry Shale
While the cops out of Hollywood Station deal with the costumed crackheads, prostitutes, purse snatchers, tweakers and everyday lunatics that haunt the precinct’s famous boulevards, in the streets behind the lights and crowds, the real Los Angeles simmers, never far from boiling point.
Under-staffed and over-worked, bound by red tape and hobbled by political correctness, the men and women of Hollywood Station hold the front line in LA’s epicentre, but add a diamond robbery, the Russian mafia and a cluelessly ambitious glass freak and something has got to give ...
‘Joseph Wambaugh is the best in the business’ Kathy Reichs
‘Wambaugh’s back and better than ever’ Independent On Sunday
‘Violent, funny and moving ... Hugely enjoyable’ The Times
Kerry Shale is an award-winning reader whose credits include such films as Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Labyrinth, as well as a range of Audiobooks and a number of documentary voice-overs for the BBC, Granada and the Discovery Channel.
4 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 4 hrs 30 mins
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Jacqueline Winspear
Birds of a Feather
Published October 2007 by John Murray at £14.99
ISBN: 0719520533
Read by Emilia Fox
Maisie Dobbs is a private investigator like no other. And her detective skills are about to be tested as never before .. .
London, 1930. Joseph Waite is a man who knows what he wants. As one of Britain’s wealthiest men, the last thing he needs is a scandal. When his daughter runs away from home, he is determined to keep the case away from the police and the newspapers. So he turns to a woman renowned for her discretion and investigative powers - the extraordinary Maisie Dobbs.
Waite’s instructions are to find his daughter and bring her home, but the task is far from straightforward. Maisie soon uncovers a chilling link to a recent murder case, and finds herself revisiting the tragedy of the Great War.
‘Immensely readable… a vivid new addition to crime fiction’ Mail on Sunday
‘A terrific mystery… intriguing and full of suspense’ Observer
‘In Maisie Dobbs, Jacqueline Winspear has given us a real gift’ Alexander McCall Smith
Emilia Fox has appeared in a variety of theatre, film and television productions. Her television appearances include Pride and Prejudice, Stephen Poliakoff's Shooting the Past, and a starring role in Rebecca.
Emilia Fox has "one of the sexiest recording voices in the world" according to The Independent
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 2 hrs 30 mins
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