One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who, in the spring of 1963, was hired to assassinate General Charles de Gaulle. France was infuriated by Charles de Gaulle’s withdrawal from Algeria, and there were six known attempts to assassinate the general that failed. This novel dramatizes the seventh, mostly deadly attempt, involving a professional killer for hire who would be unknown to the French Police. His...
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Read by Hugh Fraser the actor who portrays Captain Hastings in the TV series. Three Act Tragedy is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the United States by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1934 under the title Murder in Three Acts and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in January 1935 under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). The book features Hercule Poirot,...
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A1 Prologue A2 The Tale Of Master Seth A3 Hitler And Witchcraft A4 Witchcraft In History A5 Women As Witches A6 Witch Burning A7 Witch Tortures B1 Witch Tortures (Continued) B2 The World Of Spirits And Demons B3 Preparation For Magic B4 Instruments Of Magic B5 How To Invoke Spirits, Demons, Unseen Forces B6 The Magic Bloodstone B7 The Witches Cauldron B8 How To Communicate With The Spirits C1 How To Communicate With The Spirits (Continued) C2 Gerald Yorke And Necromancy C3 How To Make A Pact...
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The novel features her novelist detective Ariadne Oliver as a minor character, and reflects in tone the supernatural novels of Dennis Wheatley who was then at the height of his popularity. The Pale Horse is mentioned in Revelation 6:8, where it is ridden by Death. A dying woman, Mrs Davis, gives her last confession to Father Gorman, a Catholic priest, but along with her confession she gives him a list of names and a terrible secret. Before he can take action,...
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Book 6 of The Great Brain series. Set in the small town of Adenville, Utah the stories are loosely based on Fitzgerald's childhood experiences. Tom Fitzgerald, alias The Great Brain, is back, struggling to stay reformed now that his friends have threatened to ostracize him if he pulls even one more swindle. But his brother J.D. knows Tom's reformation is too good to be true, and as a reformed Great Brain makes for a dull life, J.D. is not altogether unhappy--or blameless--when his brother's...
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Read by David Suchet, the actor that played Hercule Poirot in the British TV series. Murder on the Orient Express is a detective novel by Agatha Christie featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 1 January 1934. In the United States, it was published on 28 February 1934, under the title of Murder in the Calais Coach, by Dodd, Mead and Company. The U.K. edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the...
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie, first published in June 1926 in the United Kingdom. Read by Hugh Fraser the actor who portrays Captain Hastings in the TV series. More info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Murder_of_Roger_Ackroyd
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Black Coffee is a novelization by the Australian-born writer and opera expert Charles Osborne of the 1930 play of the same name by crime fiction author Agatha Christie . The novelization was first published in the United Kingdom by Harper Collins on 2 November 1998 and in the United States by St. Martin's Press on 31 December 1998. It features Christie's famous literary creation Hercule Poirot , a London-based Belgian private detective. Until the 1998...
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And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by English writer Agatha Christie , widely considered her masterpiece and described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little Niggers , after the British blackface song , which serves as a major plot point. The US edition was not released until December 1939; its American reprints and adaptations were all...
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Here is PART TWO of TWO of the 200 page book about my time with Big City Orchestra , taken from my personal diaries of the period and featuring LOTS of photos, art, posters, ephemera and data. Due to the large size of the page files, I have opted to put it into the archive in TWO parts, of which this is the SECOND and concluding half of the book. Read PART ONE here: https://archive.org/details/BigCityOrch19821997-PartOneofTwo EXTRA! - See a portion of the rehearsal videotape for the hilarious...
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Crooked House (published in 1949) is a whodunit novel by Agatha Christie. The action takes place in and near London in the autumn of 1947. Christie has said that this was one of her two favorites of her own works, the other being Ordeal by Innocence. Plot summary Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. The first person narrator is Charles Hayward who, towards the end of the Second World War, occupies some post in Cairo. There he meets Sophia Leonides, who works for the Foreign...
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A novel adapted by Charles Osborne from an Agatha Christie play. When a stranger runs his car runs into a ditch in dense fog near the South Wales coast, and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheel-chair bound husband, a gun in her hand. She readily admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story. But is it possible Laura Warwick did not commit the crime after all? If so, who is she shielding? As the...
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Hans von Luck , was a German officer in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II . Luck served with the 7th Panzer Division and 21st Panzer Division , seeing action in Poland, France, North Africa, Normandy, and the Soviet Union. In several of the campaigns, he served under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel .
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While visiting Tommy's Aunt Ada at Sunny Ridge Nursing Home, Tuppence encounters some odd residents including Mrs. Lancaster who mystifies her with talk about "your poor child" and "something behind the fireplace". When Aunt Ada dies a few weeks later, she leaves Tommy and Tuppence a painting featuring a house, which Tuppence is sure she has seen before. This realization leads her on a dangerous adventure involving a missing tombstone, diamond smuggling and a horrible...
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Feeling a sense of duty to the Argyles, Calgary is surprised when his revelation has a disturbing effect on the family - it means one of the family is a murderer! Read by Hugh Fraser who plays Captain Hastings in the popular TV series. Dr. Arthur Calgary takes a ferry across the Rubicon River to Sunny Point, the home of the Argyle family. A year before, the matriarch of the family was murdered and a son, Jack, was convicted and sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison. Throughout the...
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Read by Hugh Fraser the actor who portrays Captain Hastings in the TV series. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and is narrated by his friend Arthur Hastings. One novel published after this one features Hastings as narrator, 1975's Curtain: Poirot's Last Case .
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The book features Hercule Poirot . The novel is notable as a rigorous attempt to demonstrate Poirot's repeatedly stated contention that it is possible to solve a mystery purely by reflecting upon the testimony of the participants, and without access to the scene of the crime. This was the last novel of an especially prolific phase of Christie's work on Poirot. She published thirteen Poirot novels between 1935 and 1942 out of a total of eighteen novels in that period. By contrast, she...
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Read by Hugh Fraser the actor who portrays Captain Hastings in the TV series. Peril at End House is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie first published in the US by the Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1932 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in March of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). The book features Christie's famous character Hercule Poirot, as well as Arthur Hastings and Chief Inspector Japp, and is...
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Like The Secret Adversary , The Man in the Brown Suit is less a novel of pure detection than it is a thriller typical of its period. It follows the adventures of Anne Beddingfeld as she becomes involved in a world of diamond thieves, murderers, and political intrigue in this tale set in exotic South Africa. Colonel Race makes his first appearance in the novel; he later appears in Cards on the Table , Sparkling Cyanide , and Death on the Nile . Read by Emilia Fox
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The novel features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings in their final appearances in Christie's works. It is a country house novel, with all the characters and the murder set in one house. Not only does the novel return the characters to the setting of her first, The Mysterious Affair at Styles , but it reunites Poirot and Hastings, who last appeared together in Dumb Witness in 1937. It was adapted for television in 2013. It is the last novel published by Christie before her death,...
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On the morning that he and his downtrodden wife, Gerda, are due to travel down to the country to weekend with friends, Dr John Christow, a successful physician and leading researcher, allows his little daughter to tell his fortune with cards. When the death card is drawn, he pays no attention, but the appearance of an old flame at The Hollow seems to be the final link in a chain of fatal circumstances.
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In 1943, from a windowless basement office in London, two brilliant intelligence officers conceived a plan that was both simple and complicated— Operation Mincemeat. The purpose? To deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed, and the Allies ultimately chose. Charles Cholmondeley of MI5 and the British naval intelligence officer Ewen Montagu could not have been more...
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Topics: WWII, World War II, Espionage, Spy, Double Cross, Nazi, Operation Husky, Allied invasion of Sicily
Disney's "Your Favorite Fairy Tales" Series. Originally released on four cassette tapes in 1987. Includes: Goldilocks and the Three Bears Hansel and Gretel Little Red Riding Hood Rapunzel The Emperor's New Clothes The Gingerbread Man The Little Red Hen The Ugly Duckling Narrated by Marvin Kaplan.
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The Sittaford Mystery is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie , first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1931 under the title of The Murder at Hazelmoor and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on 7 September of the same year under Christie's original title. It is the first Christie novel to be given a different title for the US market. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6). Mrs Willett and...
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Free audio download. Unabridged. Here is F. Scott Fitzgerald's somewhat obscure short story "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" —obscure of course, until Mr. Button became conflated with Mr. Pitt. Recorded here is the complete, original story as penned by Fitzgerald in the early 1920s, published originally in Colliers and finally collected in the popular Tales of the Jazz Age. One might call Benjamin Button an odd addition to the collection, as he was born in 1860, the year prior...
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After the outbreak of the Second World War and many years after they worked for British intelligence, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford feel useless and sidelined. When Tommy alone is approached to go undercover once more, however, Tuppence decides to join him on his mission whether invited or not. Through good sleuthing she learns where he is to be sent and actually arrives there before him. They begin a search for German fifth columnists . Another British agent that was following these...
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Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper; so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6.30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing and the prank had backfired with tragic consequences. Read by Emilia Fox
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The novel features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the mystery novelist Ariadne Oliver. A girl at a Hallowe'en party with Ariadne Oliver in attendance, claims she witnessed a murder, which at the time as she was so young, she had not realized was a murder. Soon, the girl is found murdered. Oliver calls in Poirot to find the cause of this and the next murder. This book was dedicated to P.G. Wodehouse . During the preparation of a Hallowe'en party in Woodleigh Common,...
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The novel is notable for the fact that Poirot never visits any of the crime scenes or speaks to any of the witnesses or suspects. He is challenged to prove his claim that a crime can be solved by the exercise of the intellect alone. The novel marks the return of partial first-person narrative, a technique that Christie had largely abandoned earlier in the Poirot sequence but which she had employed in the previous Ariadne Oliver novel, The Pale Horse (1961). There are two interwoven...
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Book 7 of The Great Brain series. Set in the small town of Adenville, Utah the stories are loosely based on Fitzgerald's childhood experiences. The Great Brain is back, crafty and conniving as ever. Although he occasionally uses his Great Brain for the general good, Tom can't keep his yearning for money and his love of a good swindle under wraps for long.
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Tommy and Tuppence Beresford were restless for adventure, so when they were asked to take over Blunt’s International Detective Agency, they leapt at the chance. After their triumphant recovery of a pink pearl, intriguing cases kept on coming their way: a stabbing on Sunningdale golf course; cryptic messages in the personal columns of newspapers; and even a box of poisoned chocolates. Read by James Warwick
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Vintage sound effects from "Looney Tunes" Squeaks, Squirts, Stretches, Swimming, Swishes, Suction, Tears, Teeth, Telephones, Tightropes, Trains, Twangs, Vacuums, Washboards, Water Sounds, Whips, Whistles, Whizzes, Windows, Wipes, Wobbles, Woodpeckers, Zips, Blows, Breathing, Crowds, Cries, Gargles, Growls, Grunts, Gulps, Hiccups, Kisses, Laughter, Razzberries, Screams, Sighs, Sneezes, Sniffs, Snores, Spits, Throat Cuts, Whistles, Yawns, Yells.
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Long lost Christie stories found! This audiobook presents two recently rediscovered Hercule Poirot short stories by Agatha Christie. The stories were found inside 73 notebooks discovered at Greenway, Christie's family home in Devon, when the archive at the National Trust property was being established. "The Mystery of the Dog's Ball" was eventually reworked into the novel Dumb Witness, but unlike other Christie short stories-turned-novels it remained unpublished. The other story,...
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After the Funeral is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1953 under the title of Funerals are Fatal and in UK by the Collins Crime Club on 18 May of the same year under Christie's original title. The US edition retailed at $2.50 and the UK edition at ten shillings and sixpence (10/6). A 1963 UK paperback issued by Fontana Books changed the title to Murder at the Gallop to tie in with...
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Read by Hugh Fraser the actor who portrays Captain Hastings in the TV series. This book features the recurring characters of Hercule Poirot, Colonel Race, Superintendent Battle and the bumbling crime writer Ariadne Oliver, making her first appearance in a Poirot novel. The four detectives and four possible suspects play bridge after dinner with Mr Shaitana. At the end of the evening, Mr Shaitana is discovered murdered. Identifying the murderer, per Mrs Christie, depends wholly on discerning the...
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It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver . The novel is notable for being the first in many years in which Poirot is present from beginning to end. It is uncommon in that the investigation includes discovering the first crime, which happens comparatively late in the novel. Read by Hugh Fraser
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Poirot sets himself a challenge before he retires - to solve 12 cases which correspond with the labours of his classical Greek namesake! In appearance Hercule Poirot hardly resembled an ancient Greek hero. Yet -- reasoned the detective -- like Hercules he had been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot made up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed 'Labours'. Each would go down in the...
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Poirot Investigates is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK. Plot summary links 1.1 The Adventure of the Western Star 1.2 The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor 1.3 The Adventure of the Cheap Flat 1.4 The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge 1.5 The Million Dollar Bond Robbery 1.6 The Adventure of the Egyptian Tomb 1.7 The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan 1.8 The Kidnapped Prime Minister 1.9 The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim 1.10 The Adventure of the Italian...
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Poirot's Early Cases is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by Collins Crime Club in September 1974. In the collection, Christie charts some of the cases from Hercule Poirot 's early career, before he was internationally renowned as a detective. All the stories had first been published in periodicals between 1923 and 1935. Plot summaries 1.1 The Affair at the Victory Ball 1.2 The Adventure of the Clapham Cook 1.3 The Cornish Mystery 1.4...
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When Rosaleen Cloade comes to sleepy Warmsley Vale to collect on her late spouse’s sizable inheritance, the Cloade family — who all rely in various ways on the funds from their dear departed Uncle Gordon — have other plans for the money. This classic Christie, originally published as THERE IS A TIDE, opens with Hercule Poirot in a London club, where he overhears a story that later helps to sort out a tangled murder case. Hugh Fraser, known to PBS "Mystery" fans in...
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Murder in Mesopotamia is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 6 July 1936 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00. The book features Belgian detective Hercule Poirot . The novel is set at an archaeological excavation in Iraq , and descriptive details derive from the author's visit to...
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'Hall of Mirrors' is a podcast short story collection featuring tales of horror, the grotesque and people in... 'unusual' circumstances. Delivered in a style that pays homage to Night Gallery, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the old British horror anthology movies of the 1960s, this is a collection of modern gothic tales with a nail of dark humour hammered through its heart. So roll up, ladies and gentlemen, and enter the Hall of Mirrors â if you dare. "This is the way horror audio should...
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Lady Tressilian invites her ward for his annual visit at Gull's Point. He insists on bringing both his former wife and his present wife, though Lady Tressilian finds this awkward. Her old friend dies, and Superintendent Battle and his nephew are called in. The book is the last to feature her recurring character of Superintendent Battle . Read by Hugh Fraser
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The Big Four is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie , first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on 27 January 1927. Read by Hugh Fraser the actor who portrays Captain Hastings in the TV series. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Four_(novel)
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by Agatha Christie . Audiobook read by David Suchet, the actor that played Hercule Poirot in the British TV series.
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The Murder on the Links is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie , first published in the UK in 1923. The story takes place in northern France, giving Poirot a hostile competitor from the Paris Sûreté . Poirot's long memory for past or similar crimes proves useful in resolving the crimes. The book is notable for a subplot in which Hastings falls in love, a development "greatly desired on Agatha's part... parcelling off Hastings to wedded bliss in the Argentine."...
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The Mystery of the Blue Train is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie , first published in the United Kingdom by William Collins & Sons on 29 March 1928. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystery_of_the_Blue_Train Read by Hugh Fraser the actor who portrays Captain Hastings in the TV series.
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The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding and a Selection of Entrees is a short story collection written by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 24 October 1960. It is the only Christie first edition published in the UK that contains stories with both Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple , the writer's two most famous detectives. It retailed in the UK for twelve shillings and sixpence (12/6) and comprises six cases. It was not published...
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In the summer of 2013 David Suchet will film his final scenes as Hercule Poirot. After 24 years in the role, he will have played the character in every story that Agatha Christie wrote about him (bar one, deemed not film-able) and he will bid adieu to a role and a character that have changed his life. In Poirot and Me , David Suchet tells the story of how he secured the part, with the blessing of Agatha Christie's daughter, and set himself the task of presenting the most authentic Poirot...
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The Odessa File is a thriller by Frederick Forsyth , first published in 1972, about the adventures of a young German reporter attempting to discover the location of a former SS concentration-camp commander. The name ODESSA is an acronym for the German phrase "Organisation der Ehemaligen SS-Angehörigen", which translates as "Organization of Former Members of the SS". The novel alleges that ODESSA is an international Nazi organisation established before the defeat...
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Topics: top secret, Eduard Roschmann, SS, Riga, Frederick Forsyth, Thriller, action, cloak and dagger,...
The Dogs of War (1974) is a war novel by Frederick Forsyth featuring a small group of European and African mercenary soldiers hired by a British industrialist to depose the government of the fictional African country of Zangaro.
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It features Christie's Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot , who makes a very late appearance in the final third of the novel. The emphasis on espionage in the early part of the novel relates it to Christie's international adventures. At the start of the summer term at Meadowbank School for Girls, the most prestigious prep school in England, Miss Bulstrode, the popular but aging headmistress, has no reason to believe that the challenges facing her on parent's day will be more than the...
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Anton Chekhov's Swan Song [1887] was one of his early plays. In it are but two characters: Vasili Svietlovidoff, a 68 year old comic actor and Nikita Ivanich, who is an even older man, the theater's prompter. Following a benefit evening in his honor, unbeknownst to everyone, the comic actor Svetlovidov falls asleep in a drunken blur. When he awakens, the theater is dark and empty. He falls quickly into saddened monologue... The play opens with Chekhov's stage directions: The scene is laid on...
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When multi-millionaire Simeon Lee unexpectedly invites his family to gather at his home for Christmas, the gesture is met with suspicion by many of the guests. Simeon is not given to family sentiment, and not all of the family are on good terms with one another. To make things worse, he has invited the black sheep of the family, Harry, and Simeon's granddaughter, Pilar, whom none of them has ever met before. Simeon is intent on playing a sadistic game with his family's emotions. An...
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A Bridge Too Far , a non-fiction book by Cornelius Ryan published in 1974, tells the story of Operation Market Garden , a failed Allied attempt to break through German lines at Arnhem across the river Rhine in the occupied Netherlands during World War II in September 1944. The title of the book comes from a comment made by British Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning , deputy commander of the First Allied Airborne Army , who told Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery before the...
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Topics: WWII, British, American, Polish, Paratroopers, Operation Market-Garden. Netherlands, Eindhoven,...
A collection of short stories by Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy - 1828-1910.) This is a growing collection of short stories by Tolstoy. Current audiobook length 1 hr and 48 mins.
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Topics: audiobook, LibriVox, short stories, Russian Literature, 9-12. high school, higher education,...
An on-going collection of stories and other works, including critical articles. introductions, summaries... This audiobook is an on-going collection of stories by Nikolai Vasilievitch Gogol (1809-1852) as rendered into English by a variety of translators whose works are in the public domain. The version of "The Cloak" is translated by Isabel F. Hapgood (1886), the "Memoirs of a Madman" and "The Nose" are translated by Claud Field; and others... There is an oft...
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Topics: russia, russian literature, LibriVox, audiobook, Alan Davis Drake
Die Berliner Kriminalbeamten Marshal Mathew und Shaolin Sandra ermitteln sich, der eine marlboroisierend, die andere meditierend, an ein Tötungsdelikt auf dem zweiten Arbeitsmarkt heran. Romanfragment von Uli Christenn. Mehr auf http://www.valtin.org/ulichristenn/
Topics: Berlin, Mord, Krimi, Hörbuch, Audiokrimi, Uli, Christenn, Die Maßnahme, zweiter, Arbeitsmarkt,...
Die Berliner Kriminalbeamten Marshal Mathew und Shaolin Sandra ermitteln sich, der eine marlboroisierend, die andere meditierend, an ein Tötungsdelikt auf dem zweiten Arbeitsmarkt heran. Romanfragment von Uli Christenn. Mehr auf http://www.valtin.org/ulichristenn/
Topics: Berlin, Mord, Krimi, Hörbuch, Audiokrimi, Uli, Christenn, Die Maßnahme, zweiter, Arbeitsmarkt,...
Literatura. Gure irratia.
Topic: Literatura. Gure irratia.
Elephants Can Remember is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie , first published in 1972 . It features her Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the recurring character Ariadne Oliver . This was the last Christie novel to feature either character, although in terms of publication it was succeeded by Curtain: Poirot's Last Case , which had been written in the early 1940s but published last. The novel is notable for its concentration on memory and oral testimony...
Topics: Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot, audiobook, mystery, murder, detective
Book 4 of The Great Brain series. Set in the small town of Adenville, Utah the stories are loosely based on Fitzgerald's childhood experiences. Everyone knew that Tom Fitzgerald, better known as the Great Brain, would get into trouble when he went off to boarding school at the strict Catholic Academy for Boys. But no one–including Tom–knew just how much! Whether he’s running an illegal candy store or earning a reputation as the fastest potato peeler, Tom’s great brain never falters...
Topics: The Great Brain, Great, Brain, Tom, John D., Fitzgerald, Morgan White
The Bookshop Killing, my story, read by Greg Wagland
Topic: audiobook
Podfic of Red Light's Already Off , orphaned by author, read by AceOfTigers. A Teen Wolf podfic rated Teen and Up Audiences. The original story can be found at https://archiveofourown.org/works/4532175 . Do not repost my work, or host it elsewhere.
Topic: podfic
Littafi na Shida A cikin wannan littafi mai suna Dankutungayya an yi amfani da mutane da namun daji da wasu dabbobin gida. Littafin kuma ya Jcunshi tatsuniyoyi goma sha daya ne, kowace da irin abin da take koyarwa. Daya daga cikin wadannan tatsuniyoyi ta kunshi labarin Ardo ne da ya sami labarin matarsa tana da wani kwarto da take kai wa abinci har gidansa suna ma-sha’a idan mijinta ya fita kiwo. Rannan sai ya bi ta har gidan kwarton ba tare da ta sani ba, ya labe. Da yake ba ta tarar da...
Topics: Sarki, Tatsuniya, kwarto, dankutungayya, Marowata, Marainiya, Maharbi, zaki, Kura, Kare, Ardo
"Noch rücksichtsloser gehts wohl nicht?" fragt Shaolin Sandra ihren Kollegen von der Berliner Mordkommission, als dieser den halben Radweg und die Feuerwehrzufahrt blockiert. Dazu fällt Marshal Mathew nur das ein: "Noch näher ran geht nicht; ein paar Schritte werden wir wohl laufen müssen". Marshal Mathew und Shaolin Sandra ermitteln sich an ein Tötungsdelikt auf dem zweiten Arbeitsmarkt heran. Die Maßnahme: Romanfragment von Uli Christenn in 12 Teilen.
Topics: Literatur, Podcast, Uli Christenn, Mord, Mordkommission, Die Maßnahme, Berlin, Krimi, Hörbuch,...
"Gemeinnutz geht vor Eigennutz und Gemeinheit geht vor Eigenheit." In der 14. Folge lernen wir Polizeiweisheiten kennen und gleichen sie mit der Arbeits- und Abendrealität des Berliner Mordermittlers Marshal Mathew ab. Marshal Mathew und Shaolin Sandra ermitteln sich an ein Tötungsdelikt auf dem zweiten Arbeitsmarkt heran. Die Maßnahme: Romanfragment von Uli Christenn in 15 Teilen. Jetzt das Hörbuch als Podcast auf www.valtin.org kostenlos herunterladen, oder auf YouTube,...
Topics: Literatur, Podcast, Uli Christenn, Die Maßnahme, Berlin, Neukölln, Schrebergarten,...
