
The Four Queens of Crime
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Elizabeth Knowelden
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In this debut mystery, DCI Lilian Wyles, the first woman detective chief inspector in the CID, is determined to find a killer with the help of the four queens of crime, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and Margery Allingham, perfect for fans of Elly Griffiths and Claudia Gray.
1938, London. The four queens of British crime fiction, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh, and Margery Allingham, are hosting a gala to raise money for the Women’s Voluntary Service to help Britain prepare for war. Baronet Sir Henry Heathcote has loaned Hursley House for the event, and all the elites of London society are attending. The gala is a brilliant success, despite a few hiccups, but the next morning, Sir Henry is found dead in the library.
Detective Chief Inspectors Lilian Wyles and Richard Davidson from Scotland Yard are quickly summoned and discover a cluster of potential suspects among the guests, including an upset fiancée, a politically ambitious son, a reserved but protective brother, an irate son-in-law, a rebellious teenage daughter, and the deputy home secretary.
Quietly recruiting the four queens of crime, DCI Wyles must sort through the messy aftermath of Sir Henry’s death to solve the mystery and identify the killer.
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Murder in the Bookshop
- Miss Merrill and Aunt Violet Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Anita Davison
- Narrated by: Oona Beeson
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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1915, London: Working in the dusty bookshop that her Aunt Violet mysteriously inherited, Hannah Merrill is accustomed to finding twists in every tale. But discovering her beloved best friend Lily-Anne – with a paperknife through her heart – in the middle of the bookshop, is not a plotline she saw coming. The case is anything but textbook. With the discovery of a coded German message, and Hannah’s instinct that Lily-Anne’s husband is keeping secrets, she determines to get to the bottom of it. She can’t do it alone though.
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Mystery Maven
- By Mystery Maven on 03-29-24
By: Anita Davison
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Murder Most Foul
- By: Guy Jenkin
- Narrated by: Claire Skinner, Hugh Dennis
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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It's 1593, Elizabeth I is Queen and everyone is terrified of the worst outbreak of plague in a generation. Shakespeare has only written six plays and is lagging behind his friend Christopher Marlowe, London's leading playwright. When Marlowe is stabbed to death in mysterious circumstances, rumours abound—but the one that won’t go away is that Shakespeare did it to remove his greatest rival. Will is determined to clear his name, and teams up with his old flame, Marlowe’s sister Ann, who has plenty of secrets of her own.
By: Guy Jenkin
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The New Neighbor
- By: Carter Wilson
- Narrated by: Gary Bennett
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Aidan Marlowe is the superstitious type. He's been playing the same lottery numbers for fifteen years, never hitting the jackpot. Until now. On the day of his wife's funeral. Aidan struggles to cope with these two sudden extremes: instant wealth beyond his imagination and the loss of the only woman he's ever loved, the mother of his twin children. But the money gives him and his kids options they didn't have before. They can leave everything behind. They can start a new life in a new town. So they do.
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Really good!
- By Lulu Dx on 05-01-25
By: Carter Wilson
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Saving Shadow
- The Beckett Files, Book 1
- By: Laura Beers
- Narrated by: Danielle Cohen
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Born with a perfect memory, Lady Elizabeth Beckett has become one of the world's most notorious spies, despite being the daughter of a duke. She is shielded only by her code name: Shadow. When young ladies of High Society begin disappearing from London, Eliza has no doubt who is orchestrating these crimes; a heinous man she has been investigating for years. Vowing to save them before they are sold to the highest bidder, she must risk everything to stop him.
By: Laura Beers
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Watson's Wives and Other Tales of Sherlock Holmes
- By: Tom Turley
- Narrated by: Keith Spilsbury, Steve White
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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"Of all the conundrums that have puzzled Sherlockian scholars, few have been thornier than the "vexed question" of Dr. Watson's wives. In these ten stories, listeners will meet the all-but-unknown women who preceded and succeeded Mary Morstan, as well as learning more about poor Mary's fate. Other cases involve Our Heroes with all levels of Victorian society, including prime ministers and prostitutes, aristocrats and generals, amateur sleuths and Scotland Yarders, composers, novelists, and even ghosts.
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Women of Watson
- By ciak on 03-15-25
By: Tom Turley
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The Winter Goddess
- A Novel
- By: Megan Barnard
- Narrated by: Aoife McMahon, Aidan Kelly
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Cailleach, goddess of winter, was not born to be a blight on humanity, but she became one. She would say with scorn that it was their own fault: mortals were selfish, thoughtless, and destructive, bringing harm to each other and the earth without cause or qualms. One day, Cailleach goes too far. Thousands die, lost to her brutal winter. In punishment, her mother Danu, queen of the gods, strips the goddess of her powers and sends Cailleach to earth, to live and die as the mortals she so despises, until she understands what it is to be one of them.
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A tale of humanity...
- By Kindle Customer on 05-23-25
By: Megan Barnard
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The Case of the Christie Conspiracy
- By: Kelly Oliver
- Narrated by: Penelope Rawlins
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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1926 – Christie is a darling of the literary circuit and the most desired guest in London’s glittering social scene. She can often be found at meetings of the Detection Club – where mystery writers come together to share ideas, swap secrets and drink copiously. But then a fellow author's initiation ceremony takes a gruesome turn, and one of the group ends up dead. Now, Agatha is no longer just the creator of great mystery plots – she’s a player in one.
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Interesting Beginning
- By TeaMonster on 02-21-25
By: Kelly Oliver
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An English Garden Murder
- Julia Bird Mysteries, Book 1
- By: Katie Gayle
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Recently divorced and reluctantly retired, Julia Bird has fled London to enjoy idyllic rural life in the Cotswolds. Determined to have the perfect English garden, her first job is to tear down the old shed, where she unearths much more than she’d bargained for: a body, apparently buried for decades. But who could it be, and who killed them? The police draw a blank, and even the gossip-fest that is the local book club can’t remember anyone going missing in the village.
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Above average cozy series
- By wisconsinclark on 03-27-23
By: Katie Gayle
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Wordsworth in Bogotá
- By: Scott E. Sundby
- Narrated by: Boyd Barrett
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Father–son relationships are rarely easy and certainly not when the son’s first love is Shakespeare and the father is the kingpin of a drug empire. Esteban Velasquez, however, manages to forge a frosty détente with his father—he studies literature abroad while his father grooms his older brother as the heir.
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Captivating writing
- By Desmond Dennis on 03-28-25
By: Scott E. Sundby
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No Comfort for the Dead
- By: R.P. O'Donnell
- Narrated by: Nicola F. Delgado
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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1988, West Cork, Ireland. Emma Daly has returned to her home in Castlefreke, a small and peaceful village where everybody knows everybody. She has taken over the local library and is trying not to think about the scandal she left behind in the city. But when the richest man in the village is murdered and the main suspect is the mysterious son of a local family, her charming small-town life is turned upside down.
By: R.P. O'Donnell
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The Gatsby Gambit
- A Novel
- By: Claire Anderson Wheeler
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
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Freshly twenty-one and sporting a daring new bob, Greta Gatsby—younger sister to the infamous Jay—is finally free of her dull finishing school, and looking forward to an idyllic summer at the Gatsby mansion, the jewel of West Egg. From its breathtaking views to its eccentric denizens, Greta is eager to inhale it all—even to the predictable disapproval of Mrs Dantry, Jay’s exacting housekeeper. Indeed, nothing could disrupt the blissful time Greta has planned . . . except finding out that Jay’s cadre of dubious friends will be summering there, too.
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The Undead Mr. Tenpenny
- The Cassie Black Trilogy, Book 1
- By: Tammie Painter
- Narrated by: Samantha Desz
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Cassie Black works at a funeral home. She's used to all manner of dead bodies. What she's not used to is them waking up. Which they seem to be doing on a disturbingly regular basis lately. Just when Cassie believes she has the problem under control, the recently-deceased Busby Tenpenny insists he's been murdered and claims Cassie might be responsible thanks to a wicked brand of magic she's been exposed to. The only way for Cassie to get her life back to normal is to tame her magic and uncover Mr. Tenpenny's true killer.
By: Tammie Painter
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The Seven Dials Mystery
- Superintendent Battle, Book 2
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Gabrielle de Cuir
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Gerald Wade is among the many invited to the Chimneys estate for a party. Rented by Sir Oswald and Lady Coote for the season, it is rather the place to be. Unfortunately, during his stay there Gerry has garnered the teasing of his friends for a particular talent of his: to oversleep. One day the set decides to “fix” the matter with a little joke. The plan is to set out eight alarm clocks in Gerry’s room, all set to different times … as early as 6:30 a.m.! When they go to check on him, his friends discover that Gerry hasn’t overslept this time. In fact, he has been murdered.
By: Agatha Christie