DescriptionWhile playing an erratic round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. His ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the crumpled body of a dying man. With his final breath, the man opens his eyes and says, "Why didn't they ask Evans?" Haunted by these words, Bobby and his vivacious companion, Frankie, set out to solve a mystery that will bring them into mortal danger.
DescriptionIn a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a small table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: "Captain Trevelyan...dead...murder." Is this black magic or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away and, with snow drifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot.
DescriptionMrs McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion fell immediately on her shifty lodger, James Bentley, whose clothes revealed traces of the victim's blood and hair. Yet something was amiss: Bentley just didn't look like a murderer. Poirot believed he could save the man from the gallows. What he didn't realise was that his own life was now in great danger.
DescriptionGifted with even greater powers of observation than his famous brother Sherlock, Mycroft Holmes is a master of elucidation. In this suspenseful Holmesian adventure, authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle, his ability shines in the international political arena. Attending secret high level negotiations with the Japanese ambassador, Mycroft hopes to secure English access to Japanese waters. On the night the agreement is to be signed, a British diplomat, who was opposed to the treaty, is found dead with a Japanese dagger in his back. His wife was the secret lover of Japan's Prince Jiro. Knowing that his own life hangs in the balance, Mycroft musters all his talent for manipulation and negotiation to solve this murder and finalize the agreement.
DescriptionWhen a beautiful Caucasian heiress turns up dead, all clues point to her African-American fiance, who goes straight to Nero Wolfe for help. The case appears black and white, but it's not open and shut, because Wolfe soon uncovers a new motive for the murder.
DescriptionBeautiful young Elinor Carlisle stands serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence is damning: only Elinor had the motive, the opportunity, and the means to administer the fatal poison. Yet, inside the hostile courtroom, one man still presumes Elinor is innocent until proven guilty: Hercule Poirot, who is all that stands between Elinor and the gallows.
DescriptionThe legend of the hound, which has brought terror to the Baskerville family for generations, brings Sherlock Holmes up against a formidable adversary and sends Dr Watson to a bleak and lonely moor where it is all too easy to believe that something not of…
DescriptionCSA's third collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories is read by Edward Hardwicke, who played Dr. Watson to Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes in Granada TV?s popular series broadcast in the early 1990s. The Sussex Vampire tells the story of a beautiful woman caught drinking her baby's blood and assaulting her invalid stepson. The Creeping Man is about a professor who travels to Europe and returns to England to court his young sweetheart with the passionate frenzy of youth. In The Speckled Band we hear of a woman who believes that her sister has died of fright and now fears for her own life in her stepfather's lonely country home. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson bring their own expertise to unravel these mysteries. And Edward Hardwicke brings his own expertise to re-live these masterful stories of suspense.
DescriptionNero Wolfe and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, star in these four gems. In "The Christmas Party", Archie and his fiancee attend an office party where Wolfe condescends to uncharacteristic theatrics. His dramatic technique is good, but it isn't enough to clear him from suspicion of murder. The "Easter Parade" tempts Wolfe to commit petty larceny for an orchid. Though that crime goes unpunished, the inevitable murder doesn't. "A Fourth of July Picnic" has Wolfe scheduled for an unprecedented appearance as an orator. But his day in the sun is rained out by murder. The last selection, "Murder Is No Joke", is a whodunit in a couturier's salon, where a murderer is dressed to kill and kill again.
DescriptionOnly Holmes and Watson can get to the bottom of this baffling murder mystery. John Douglas is found in his study, blasted faceless by a sawed-off shotgun. There is no obvious motive or suspect. Douglas and his wife, Ivy, a rich and locally popular couple, have lived for years in the ancient, moated Birlstone Manor House. Despite Douglas' nightly ritual of raising the drawbridge, the perpetrator had somehow concealed himself, shot Douglas, and made a clean getaway. Does the mystery have something to do with the "interesting" relationship between Cecil Baker, Douglas' only friend from his obscure past, and the surprisingly merry widow? There are plenty of clues, including a brand mark on the deceased's arm and the fact that his wedding ring is missing, but not the ring that he always wore above it.
