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This is a story from the Four Short Stories collection. In these stories, Conan Doyle draws the listener in to experience drama, suspense and, ultimately, the shock of surprise. Here is a unique combination of a famous analytical intellect telling spine-tingling tales against a background of turn-of-the-century England. Nothing is quite as it seems. What is the secret of "Lot No. 249"? What lies in wait for an aviator in the stratosphere? And what lies inside "The Sealed Room"?

When investigative journalist Miren Triggs is sent a photo of a missing girl, it’s the first promising lead in a decade long cold case that continues to haunt her family. Miren is instantly intrigued by this new clue. Could it be the first step in finding the missing girl – and could Miren be the one to do it? Before she has a chance to follow the trail, though, she’s called to report on a shocking murder. A crucified body has been found in the suburbs of Queens. Miren is torn between the crimes of past and present. But could it be possible these cases are linked?

Als die Geschwister Peter, Celia und Margaret gewarnt werden, dass es in dem ehemaligen Klostergebäude Priory, das sie geerbt haben, spuken soll, halten sie das Gerede zuerst für Aberglauben. Doch schon in der ersten Nacht werden sie von einem unheimlichen Stöhnen geweckt - und bald darauf geschieht auch noch ein Mord... Ein Muss für Fans von Georgette Heyer und klassischen englischen Krimis.

There is a harvest moon over Toulouse, but it’s going to be a very dark night. Eleven-year-old Micah Stevens intends to free the dogs from a puppy mill in the woods outside of town. Teenager Jenny Allard and her boyfriend Michael Kennedy have come up with a plan to get even with two of the school’s most notorious thugs. Gloria Downing is coming home after a decade running from her past. On this Indian summer evening in October of 1981, the little town is about to add several chapters to its long and bizarre history. Come along as award winning novelist, Chris Morrow, gives you the grand...

Years ago, when Micah Jordan-Wells was born, a rift was created between two worlds. Today, Micah is a detective in New Jersey, a local hero for bringing the merciless killer Silky to justice. But Micah's world is about to be turned inside out by a monster from another dimension, one with whom Micah shares a terrifying link.

You are what you eat. Unless your food eats you back. Detective Sergeants Jessica Holden and Mark Curren face the sting of consequences as their actions from previous cases come back to haunt them. Along with their colleagues in the secretive Special Investigations unit, they battle against the sins of their past. Across the country people sit down at their dinner tables, unaware of the taint awaiting within their microwaved meals. An eldritch horror lurks within, eager to add people to its malignant mass. To consume them. To reshape their flesh like clay.

Hithechurch, a peaceful, out-of-the-way seaside town in Kent. When Charlie was young, she would visit with her family, making friends and playing down by the beach. Their favourite was telling scary stories; silly games of make-believe that would twist and weave old wife’s tales to scare each other. They would laugh and try to shake off the shiver than ran down their backs and made the hair on their necks stand on end.

A Haunted Village, Rattling Chains and Ominous Moans Eden Patterson and her ghost team are called to investigate disturbances in a small town filled with craft shops, antiques, and a rich history. Rattling chains, yelling and moaning are causing the town's shopkeepers nightmares as tourists and customers turn tail and run. But are these disturbances evil, angry or sad? Find out as Eden faces a spirit unlike any she has before.

Poppy, Lily and Belladonna would do anything to protect their best friend, Raven. So when they discovered he was suffering abuse at the hands of his stepmother, they came up with a lethal plan: petals of poppy, belladonna and lily in her evening tea so she’d never be able to hurt Raven again. But someone got cold feet, the plot faded to a secret of the past and the group fell apart. Three years later, on the eve of Raven’s 17th birthday, his stepmother turns up dead. But it’s only belladonna found in her tea, and it’s only Belladonna who’s carted off to jail.

Chloe Marsh is found dead at the scene of an accident and pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. Half an hour later, as she is being taken to the morgue, Chloe suddenly sits up. But this isn't the first time Chloe has died, and it certainly won't be the last.

Esta selección de cuentos del excepcional Edgar Allan Poe incluye sus más destacados cuentos, Carta robada y Corazón delator, que lo llevarán a experimentar el suspenso y el misterio exponiendo hasta dónde un ser humano puede hundirse en el odio irracional. En Carta robada se narra la historia de una carta que se ha perdido y que en caso de caer en malas manos, puede perjudicar a su dueño. La policía sabe quién la tiene pero no dónde la ha escondido. Ante la incapacidad por resolver este misterio, el prefecto decide contratar a el detective Auguste Dupin, conocido por poseer una gran inteligencia y capacidad de deducción.

First published in 1910, The Horse of the Invisible tells the tale of Carnacki, a ghost detective investigating the haunting of a country house that threatens the wedding of the Hisgins Family's daughter and her fiance. The source of the apparition must be found before the soon-to-be-wed woman is driven mad, or even to her death. Carnacki does not suspect supernatural forces are at work in this case, but even a ghostbuster can be wrong.

It was New Year’s Eve the night that dead blackbirds descended, hours before 14-year-old Alex McCarthy's sister Olivia went missing from a party. Committed to finding out what happened to her sister within the previously safe walls of their subarctic Orkney village, Alex knows that dishevelled, sometimes intoxicated Detective Inspector Birkens is her best shot.

A serial killer sends Detective Driver a note with a challenge: solve the clue before another woman is murdered.

When Nick O'Reilly is invited to Sherlock Lake by his friend Danny, he is more than apprehensive. Nick is familiar with the ghost story that surrounds that place, and he is not one to meddle with situations like that. However, after Danny pushes him into it, criticizing his confidence, Nick feels like he has no choice. The two wander down to the lake to explore the legend that surrounds it, and when they do, they get more than they bargained for. The Mystery at Sherlock Lake is a short story that will thrill you with its mysterious twists and turns and leave you wondering what will happen ...

The Cornish village of St Petroc is the sort of place where people come to hide. Tom Killgannon is one such person. An ex-undercover cop, Tom is in the Witness Protection Programme, and St Petroc offers him a chance to live a safe and quiet life. Until he meets Lila. Lila is a 17-year-old runaway. When she breaks into Tom's house she takes more than just his money. His wallet holds everything about his new identity. He also knows that Lila is in danger from the travellers' commune she's been living at.

For Vanessa, Pairs is a nightmare come true.But she tries her best to keep the creepy and downright terrifying down by being a fixer. So when she gets a job by the famous Madame VanGelder to retrieve stolen property its just another chance at two hundred francs a day and a pint of O negative every fourth day. Wrong. Buy Your Copy Today

Ghost hunters, an exorcism, and a ghostly grey tabby Mad River welcomes a pair of ghost hunters and their television show to town only for a murder to occur as the cameras were rolling. Now Shelby's ghost friends are being accused of the dirty deed and the good reverend is calling for an exorcism. Can Shelby find the killer before the pastor exorcises her spirit friends away from the only homes and town they've ever known? Find out in the Mad River Mystery Series.

Orchestrated at the highest levels of society, the nation’s food supply has been hijacked and contaminated in the first step of a global plot. George Miles, a scientist, discovers something is wrong and joins grocery delivery driver Dustin Fowler on the trail through a world turning insane: terrorist wristware, inflatable farm equipment, a woman following her dream to become the world’s fattest person and Tolkien-themed Pyramid schemes all stand in their path to save everyone from a monstrous fate.

È il 1950, Beth ha sedici anni e vive a Shadyside con la sua famiglia. Nonostante le difficoltà economiche, insieme sono riusciti ad avviare l'attività dei loro sogni: un ranch di cavalli. Beth sembra finalmente serena, ma non è una ragazza come le altre: ha dei poteri, che chiama "trucchetti", non sempre facili da controllare... A Shadyside vive anche Michael, ma... nel futuro! Oltre settant'anni dopo, infatti, Michael e i suoi amici amano divertirsi in motoslitta per le strade innevate della stessa città.