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Hugh Fraser
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Agatha Christie
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James has found himself at the fashionable resort Kimpton-on-Sea, all due to the persuasion of his girlfriend, Grace, who during the last few months of their courtship has become more difficult to deal with. Among the upper echelons of society, including the Rajah of Maraputna, James feels disgruntled and out of place. Eager to both irritate and win over Grace, James bypasses the queue to the changing rooms and ducks into the private huts on the beach so that he can be the first into the sea. It is only later that he realizes he has accidentally come into possession of a very valuable and sought-after object.
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- De nooch85 en 07-21-18
De: Sapper
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Father Brown
- De: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrado por: Bill Wallis
- Duración: 2 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
These four stories test Father Brown in many ways, creating headaches a plenty. However, Father Brown is nothing if not redoubtable and whilst Chesterton's stories are, in his own words, "very slight and improbable", his method is all his own. Bill Wallis captures perfectly the mood and tone of Father Brown in this collection.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Short
- De chambs en 09-22-17
De: G. K. Chesterton
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Grey Mask
- Miss Silver, Book 1
- De: Patricia Wentworth
- Narrado por: Diana Bishop
- Duración: 7 h y 33 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 512
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 458
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 459
The first of the classic mysteries featuring governess-turned-detective Miss Silver, who investigates a deadly conspiratorial ring. Charles Moray has come home to England to collect his inheritance. After four years wandering the jungles of India and South America, the hardy young man returns to the manor of his birth, where generations of Morays have lived and died. Strangely, he finds the house unlocked, and sees a light on in one of its abandoned rooms. Eavesdropping, he learns of a conspiracy to commit a fearsome crime.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The shaky first of a long, strong series
- De Phebe en 07-21-15
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Death in Zanzibar
- De: M. M. Kaye
- Narrado por: Bahni Turpin
- Duración: 9 h y 52 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 83
Dany Ashton is invited to vacation at her stepfather's house in Zanzibar, but even before her airplane takes off there is a stolen passport, a midnight intruder - and murder. In Zanizbar, the family house is Kivulimi, the mysterious "House of Shade", where Dany and the rest of the guests learn that one of them is a desperate killer. The air of freedom and nonchalance that opened the house party fades into growing terror, as the threat of futher violence flowers in the scented air of Zanzibar.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Old Favorite Now in Audio
- De Marie en 01-13-13
De: M. M. Kaye
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A Man Lay Dead
- De: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrado por: Philip Franks
- Duración: 5 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 658
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 577
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 578
Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the fashionable Murder Game, in which a guest is secretly selected to commit a 'murder' in the dark, and everyone assembles to solve the crime. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Upper Crust Mystery
- De Laurence G. Byrne en 02-25-16
De: Ngaio Marsh
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Meet the Tiger
- A Simon “The Saint” Templar Novel
- De: Leslie Charteris
- Narrado por: John Rayburn
- Duración: 8 h y 47 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Narración:1 out of 5 stars 3
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 3
The fiction world of today needs a “Saint” more than it ever did. For years now that scene has been dominated by the “anti-heroes"—those grim gray operators in a sunless sub-culture where global issues are worked out with totally unemotional pragmatism, those hapless uninspired puppets manipulated and expended by ruthlessly dedicated little brothers of Big Brother. It made morbidly fascinating narrative, but it never gave anyone a lift until it climaxed in the hyper-gadgeted parodies of 007 extravaganzas.
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4 out of 5 stars
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droning
- De Kindle Customer en 04-27-24
De: Leslie Charteris
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Lord Peter Wimsey: Novels 1-3
- De: Dorothy L. Sayers
- Narrado por: Graham Scott
- Duración: 26 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 18
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14
The first three mysteries for Dorothy L. Sayers' aristocratic sleuth: first, a body is discovered in a Battersea bathroom, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez, on the same night that financier Sir Reuben Levy disappears from his Park Lane home. Then, Wimsey returns to England when his brother, the Duke of Denver, is accused of murdering the fiance of their sister, Lady Mary, and a trial in the House of Lords looms; and finally, an overheard conversation in a restaurant begins an investigation of the strangely premature death of wealthy and terminally ill old lady Miss Agatha Dawson.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love Lord Peter
- De Mav's mom en 10-16-24
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The Lost World (AmazonClassics Edition)
- De: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrado por: Gary Furlong
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 143
There’s only one way for Professor George Edward Challenger to prove that dinosaurs still roam the earth. He invites skeptical journalist Edward Malone to accompany him and a group of adventurers to see the creatures with his own eyes. But when they arrive at the fantastic volcanic plateau in the Amazon where time stands still, their expedition quickly becomes one of survival. With its cliff-hanging escapes, rousing humor, and nailbiting suspense, The Lost World is a pioneering work of fantasy-adventure that paved the way for every thrill ride to follow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful -short listen, amazing adventure
- De January MH en 02-15-23
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Hunger
- De: Knut Hamsun
- Narrado por: Gunnar Cauthery
- Duración: 6 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 97
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 85
Verging on death, a starving, destitute writer navigates the cold and indifferent city of Kristiania in search of his next meal. Frenzied and fevered, he chews on stale bread, devours scraps of wood, and bites his own finger, sleeping under the stars in old, pungent blankets, until one day he is able to sell an article and buy some food - only for the cycle then to repeat itself....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great book great narrator
- De Gunnar en 08-27-20
De: Knut Hamsun
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A Fatal Obsession
- Ryder and Loveday, Book 1
- De: Faith Martin
- Narrado por: Stephanie Racine
- Duración: 8 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 355
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 321
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 311
Oxford, 1960. There's a murderer on the loose, and two unlikely heroes are poised to solve the case. Meet Probationary WPC Trudy Loveday - smart, enthusiastic and always underestimated. In the hope of getting her out of the way, Trudy’s senior officer assigns her to help coroner Clement Ryder as he re-opens the case of a young woman's death. She can't believe her luck – she is actually going to be working on a real murder case.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Just didn't buy it
- De Marie en 12-04-19
De: Faith Martin
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Raffles
- The Amateur Cracksman
- De: E.M. Hornung
- Narrado por: Walter Covell
- Duración: 5 h y 19 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 5
Raffles is Sherlock Holmes' polar opposite, a foil for great detectives and a man with all the immoral charms of a hero-thief, plus a remarkable ability at cricket. Raffles is the godson of Robin Hood, the model for Cary Grant in "To Catch a Thief," and the inspiration of Leslie Charteris' "The Saint." As the great reinvention of the trickster for the 20th century, Raffles convinces readers to throw away their scruples and follow along for wit, bold adventures, and thrilling suspense.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Fairly good
- De Paul en 01-31-08
De: E.M. Hornung
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The Double and The Gambler
- De: Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear - translator, Larissa Volokhonsky - translator
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 45
The two strikingly original short novels brought together here - in new translations by award-winning translators - were both literary gambles of a sort for Fyodor Dostoevsky. The first real expression of his genius, The Double is a surprisingly modern hallucinatory nightmare in which a minor official named Goliadkin becomes aware of a mysterious doppelgänger. Written 20 years later under the pressure of crushing debt, The Gambler is a stunning psychological portrait of a young man's exhilarating and destructive addiction.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Exciting
- De Tad Davis en 02-25-19
De: Fyodor Dostoevsky, y otros
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Pietr the Latvian
- Inspector Maigret, Book 1
- De: Georges Simenon, David Bellos - translator
- Narrado por: Gareth Armstrong
- Duración: 3 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 894
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 789
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 788
The first audiobook which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Long live Maigret
- De Adeliese Baumann en 11-19-14
De: Georges Simenon, y otros
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The Fair Miss Fortune
- De: D. E. Stevenson
- Narrado por: Patience Tomlinson
- Duración: 5 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 96
Jane Fortune causes a stir when she arrives in the small community of Dingleford. She has bought an old cottage and plans to open a tearoom. Old friends Charles Weatherby and Harold Prestcott both fall for the newcomer, but her behaviour seems to vary wildly – she encourages first one then the other and at other times barely recognises them. Is there more to the fair Miss Fortune than meets the eye?
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Humorous Look at 1930s English Village Life
- De Pam en 09-13-12
De: D. E. Stevenson
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The Magic Christian
- De: Terry Southern
- Narrado por: Edoardo Ballerini
- Duración: 2 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 108
Guy Grand, an eccentric billionaire prankster, is rich enough to do whatever he likes. And what he likes is to carefully execute projects where he can cauterize by ridicule what the rest of the world ignores: Complacency, greed, corruption, and idiocy. Determined to "make it hot for people," Grand spends his billions staging a series of hilarious, sometimes bewildering stunts, lampooning along the way the American holy cows of money, status, power, beauty, media, and stardom.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Easily the my worst audible experience
- De Kindle Customer en 03-11-15
De: Terry Southern
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Victory
- De: Joseph Conrad
- Narrado por: George Guidall
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 120
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 107
From one of the greatest modern writers in world literature comes a magnificent story of love, adventure, and rescue played out against the shimmering South Seas. Alone on a tropical island, a Swedish baron and a beautiful violinist discover the long-lost joys of love. But when two treasure hunters arrive on the beach, the lovers know that evil has invaded their romantic paradise—an evil they are powerless to stop.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful, sad and powerful
- De Darwin8u en 01-20-13
De: Joseph Conrad