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Eine Schneiderin schickt Maigret einen verzweifelten Hilferuf. Denn ihr Geliebter, Albert, soll bei einem Einbruch auf dem Boulevard Beaumarchais jemanden erschossen haben und die verzweifelte junge Frau erhält seitdem Drohbriefe.

Kommissar Maigrets Frau Pauline grämt sich wegen eines verpatzten Abendessens. Dabei stecken noch ganz andere Qualitäten in ihr: Denn als der Buchbinder Steuvels durch eine anonyme Anzeige beschuldigt wird, eine Leiche in seinem Heizofen verbrannt zu haben, und als ein kleiner brauner Koffer auftaucht und auf mysteriöse Weise wieder verschwindet, ist Maigret mit seiner Weisheit am Ende. So beginnt Pauline, das Rätsel hinter einem Brief ohne Unterschrift und Absender, Maigrets Geisterkoffer und einem weißen Hütchen selbst zu lösen.

Inspector Purbright is a thoroughly English policeman: affable, polite, dogged and decent. Created by award-winning crime writer Colin Watson, he appeared in 12 Flaxborough mysteries, four of which were adapted for BBC TV under the title Murder Most English. These five radio dramatisations star Peter Jeffrey, John Pullen and John Rowe as Purbright.

When Charles Paris’ agent rings with the news that he has a part for him in a new musical, Charles is delighted - and somewhat amazed, as he can neither sing nor dance. But Maurice has an ulterior motive: as one of the show’s backers, he wants Charles to play detective and investigate a series of accidents that have dogged the production. The pianist has been shot in the hand, and another cast member fell downstairs - or was he pushed? Anxious about their investment and their star, Chris Watt, the ‘angels’ are keen to ensure that nothing else goes wrong.

Leonardo Padura's award-winning Cuban detective series featuring Lieutenant Mario Conde. Havana Blue: it's New Year's Day 1989, and Lieutenant Mario Conde wakes up with another terrible hangover and a case which is close to home. Havana Gold: Lieutenant Conde goes on a trip through his childhood Havana haunts when a young female schoolteacher at his old school is murdered. Havana Red: Conde's fondly held prejudices are tested by this case involving a man found strangled in Havana Woods wearing a beautiful red dress.

This is the third novel featuring the Rev Oughterard, vicar of St Botolph's and genteel murderer of parishioner Mrs Elizabeth Fotherington. So far eluding arrest (but with fears of imminent exposure), he is in the grasp of his blackmailing pal, the shady Nicholas Ingaza, who forces him to steal a valuable figurine of a prancing pig from collector Claude Blenkinsop. Naturally the project backfires and the hapless vicar is plunged into further skulduggery during which someone is murdered.

Ace is apparently killed and her dead Nan appears to help her cross over to "the other side". Faced with her own internal demons, how long can she cling to life? And what is "the other side"? The final track of this download is a 10-minute edition discussion with Bill Baggs and Sophie Aldred, Editor Alistair Lock, and Assistant Producer John Ainsworth.

L'opera fa parte del progetto "AutoreVole: audiodrammi in teatro" in cui autori di fama nazionale si sono confrontati con la drammaturgia radiofonica. Allestiti in teatro, gli audiodrammi permettono agli spettatori - dotati di radiocuffie - di "vedere la radio". Doveva essere una semplice settimana di lavoro, ma dal viaggio Daria non è più tornata. È stata trovata impiccata nella camera di un albergo scalcinato, suicida senza nemmeno un biglietto d'addio. In cerca di una spiegazione al gesto della moglie, Fabio parte per Amsterdam scoprendo che Daria ha trascorso i suoi ultimi giorni sotto l'effetto di sostanze allucinogene, cercando dentro di sé le risposte che i libri non erano più in grado di darle.

Down-and-out drunk Terry Lennox has a problem: his millionaire wife is dead and he needs to get out of LA fast. So he turns to his only friend in the world: Philip Marlowe, Private Investigator. He’s willing to help a man down on his luck, but later, Lennox commits suicide in Mexico and things start to turn nasty. Marlowe finds himself drawn into a sordid crowd of adulterers and alcoholics in LA’s Idle Valley, where the rich are suffering one big suntanned hangover. Marlowe is sure Lennox didn’t kill his wife, but how many more stiffs will turn up before he gets to the truth?

The police are desperate to cut off supplies of heroin and cocaine to the capital, but they are struggling. So Sir Graham Forbes turns to Paul Temple. By fast car and police launch, on deserted houseboats and midnight beaches, in dodgy East End pubs and smart West End restaurants, braving booby traps, bullets and blazing houses, Paul and Steve pursue the ruthless and feared drug dealer known only as ‘Valentine’. This new production for BBC Radio 4 uses the original scripts, vintage sound effects and much of the original incidental music from the missing 1946 production.

Just as he and Steve are looking forward to a well-earned break, Paul is contacted by the wealthy financier Maurice Lonsdale, whose brother-in-law was apparently killed by accident in Geneva. His widowed sister Margaret is increasingly convinced that her husband is still alive, and she wants Paul Temple to investigate! Suddenly attempts are being made on Paul and Steve's lives, and they become embroiled in a plot of deception stretching from London to Switzerland.

From 1938 to 1969 crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular serials. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats, a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case.

Bernard Braden stars in an original 1940 full-cast production of the very first Paul Temple adventure. Between 1938 and 1968, the exploits of amateur detective Paul Temple and his wife, Steve, enthralled generations of BBC radio listeners. Theirs was an exciting world of violence and glamour - car bombs and cocktail parties. In Paul and Steve’s very first adventure, starring Bernard Braden as Paul, with Peggy Hassard as Steve, a spate of jewel robberies in the Midlands has left the police baffled.

In a shocking scandal, the likes of which has not been seen in the English aristocracy since the 18th century, the Duke of Denver stands accused of the foul murder or his sister's fiance, shot through the heart on a cold, lonely night at Riddlesdale Hall in Yorkshire. The Duke's brother, Lord Peter Wimsey, attempts to prove Denver's innocence, but why is the Duke refusing to co-operate? And what does his sister, Lady Mary, know about the affair?

War-wounded sailor Dickie Carpenter is haunted by strange visitations from a ghostly woman. When his friend Robert tries to solve the mystery, though, he ultimately has to fight his own terrifying battle between love and death.

Polina Nazarova is a soprano whose past is dangerously entangled with the present. Given the opportunity to sing her Tosca opposite the arrogant and cruel Andre Breon, it seems that her desire for revenge may prove irresistible.

A group of adventurers set out from Damascus to visit the legendary Gate of Baghdad, also known as the Gate of Death. When one of the party is found dead, the others look to the seemingly unimpeachable Mr Parker Pyne.

Anna Bellini, commissario di polizia, e Giada Santini, ufficiale dei servizi segreti, riescono a salvare Nicola Maceratini e il capitano dei carabinieri Tommaso Sauro, il quale si occupa di recupero opere d'arte. Anna accetta di collaborare con lui per arrivare all'arresto di Naseen. Come prima cosa, Tommaso porta Anna ad un'asta e le fa incontrare un facoltoso appassionato d'arte, tale Vittorio Spada. Anna ottiene un incontro a casa di Vittorio Spada, ma, quando va a trovarlo, la situazione degenera.

Il commissario Anna Bellini è invischiata nel caso Roveda più di quanto mai avrebbe pensato. Ora scopre che Rebecca Garrone, il suo referente nei servizi segreti, è stata allontanata, e al suo posto è arrivata una certa Giada Santini. Ora Anna dovrà avere a che fare solo con lei. I metodi di Giada sono molto diversi da quelli di Rebecca. La prima azione estrema che Giada ordina ad Anna è infatti di distruggere l'archivio di Roveda. Ha intenzione di farlo saltare in aria.

Anna Bellini, commissario di polizia milanese, è sempre più coinvolta dal caso spionistico legato alla morte dell'usuraio Antonio Roveda. Ora deve fingere di essere solo interessata ai soldi e di volere quindi vendere l'archivio di Roveda. Insieme al suo capo, Nicola Maceratini, preparano l'incontro che Anna dovrà avere con Besic, imprenditore legato all'Isis. Anna va al ristorante di Besic. L'uomo d'affari è fascinoso e seduttivo, ma anche duro e spietato.