Mystery audiobooks page 11

Het verhaal speelt zich af in 1887 of 1888, en draait deels om de Oost-Indische Compagnie en de Muiterij van Sepoy.
Sherlock Holmes en Dr. Watson worden benaderd door Miss Mary Morstan, die hun vraagt mee te helpen met de zoektocht naar haar vader. Hij was officier in India, maar is 10 jaar geleden verdwenen toen hij terug zou komen naar Engeland.
Een anonieme brief brengt de drie op het spoor van Thaddeus Sholto. Van hem vernemen ze dat zijn vader goed bevriend was met Morstans vader en met hem in dezelfde legereenheid diende in India. Hij vertelt echter ook dat beide mannen dood zijn en dat er een schat in het spel is die hij en zijn broer hebben meegenomen uit India.
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From the Preface - In these modern times of breathless hurry and great combines, when birth counts for nothing; when fortunes are made in a day and credit Is lost in an hour, men’s secrets are sometimes very strange ones. It is one of these which I have here revealed; one that will, I anticipate, both startle and puzzle the reader. The mystery is, in fact, one taken from the daily life about us, the truth concerning it having hitherto been regarded as strictly confidential by the persons herein mentioned, although I am now permitted by them to make the remarkable circumstances public.

Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter who has an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the "Riverview Star," Penny has been raised to be self-sufficient, outspoken, innovative, and extraordinarily tenacious. Her cheerful, chatty manner belies a shrewd and keenly observant mind. Penny was the creation of Mildred A. Wirt, who was also the author of the original Nancy Drew series (under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene). Wirt became frustrated when she was pushed to "tone down" Nancy Drew and make her less independent and daring. With Penny Parker, Wirt had a freer hand and receive...

Hunter, ein Deutsch-Australier kehrt nach langen Jahren als reicher, aber verbitterter Mann nach Berlin zurück, erfährt über Umwege, dass seine Ex-Ehefrau die zwei gemeinsamen Kinder wahrscheinlich umgebracht hat und beschließt, deren Tode zu rächen. Dazu schleicht er sich unter fremden Namen in den bizarren Haushalt der zickigen Frau und ihren geizigen Kauz und Neu-Ehemann ein, lernt deren unterdrückte Tochter und ihren Verlobten kennen, und beschließt, den beiden unglücklichen jungen Leuten gegen den Willen der Eltern den Weg zu ebnen. Doch dabei muss er mit der Niedertracht seiner Exfrau rechnen ... ein mörderischer Abgrund aus Geiz und Gier tut sich vor ihm auf.

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Delight Hunter spends her days looking out of her window at her handsome but very mysterious and reclusive next door neighbor. She walks straight into a mystery when one day a fire starts in one of the upper rooms of his house and she dashes over to warn him, only to have him lock her in with instructions to let no one else in. Why is he so insistent that no one come in? What secrets are hidden within the walls of this house?

New Mexico's hot, dry winds are taking their toll: cattle suffer long treks to get food and water. But it is not just a hard time for them. Lucy Bancroft has sought a milder climate so she can recover from typhoid fever. She and her father stop to see Curt Conrad, a rancher, on their way to their new home. The two men discuss politics (some of it crooked) at the state level. they also talk about an easterner, a man named Delafield, who years earlier cheated Conrad's father out of his considerable wealth. Curt has vowed to seek revenge on Delafield if he can ever find the crook. thus begins a harrowing tale of determined search and blossoming love in the hot, dry climate of New Mexico.

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, who later became two of the most famous characters in literature.

Conan Doyle wrote the story in 1886, and it was published the following year. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes to Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it." (A ...

Herr Schefbeck ist tot, aber er findet keine Ruhe. Hat er um des reichen Scheines Willen doch allerlei Ausgaben gehabt und hinterläßt nun seiner zweiten Frau Olli praktisch nichts. Aus dem Grab heraus beobachtet er, wie sein protziges Mausoleum vorbereitet wird. Denn das hat er sich redlich - all dem Münchner Gesellschaftsklatsches zum Trotz - verdient, ... oder doch nicht? - Zusammenfassung von crowwings

In the South African wilderness, six men got together to mine for diamonds and become very rich. They agree that the wealth is to be split equally between them or their heirs after a few years and that the share of any one who died without leaving an heir or whose heir died before the time would be split between the remaining partners.

Soon, all heirs are notified and wait expectantly for the first of January, on which the diamonds are to be divided between the partners. However, the diamonds are becoming increasingly blood stained, and January the first is still some time off...

"Narrative of my captivity among the Sioux Indians: with a brief account of General Sully's Indian expedition in 1864, bearing upon events occurring in my captivity"

"I was a member of a small company of emigrants, who were attacked by an overwhelming force of hostile Sioux, which resulted in the death of a large proportion of the party, in my own capture, and a horrible captivity of five months' duration. Of my thrilling adventures and experience during this season of terror and privation, I propose to give a plain, unvarnished narrative, hoping the reader will be more interested in facts concerning the habits, manners, and customs of the Indians, and their treatment of prison...