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They are icons of the literary world whose soaring works have been discussed and analyzed in countless classrooms, homes, and pubs. Yet for most listeners, the living, breathing human beings behind the classics have remained unknown - until now. In this utterly captivating audiobook, Dr. Elliot Engel, a leading authority on the lives of great authors, illuminates the fascinating and flawed members of literature's elite. In lieu of stuffy biographical sketches, Engel provides fascinating anecdotes.

In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Alex Cross is gravely injured and only his partner and friend John Sampson can keep him safe . . . and get justice. For the first time, John Sampson is on his own. The brilliant crime-solving duo of Washington, DC’s, Metro PD and the FBI has a proven MO...

Multicast narration featuring David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Juliet Stevenson, and more Murder and mystery lurk in the picturesque English countryside in this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories. Growing up in Torquay, Agatha Christie’s love of the West Country never left her and many...

Read by the inimitable Christopher Lee, this audiobook contains four short stories from the great detective’s case book. Four demanding, even life-threatening, adventures for the much-loved amateur detective, who, with the faithful Watson by his side, has earned his place in our national life...

A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories. Every morning at the same hour on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help coming from a cottage. He speaks to the resident and learns that she has unsettling...

A collection of Agatha Christie’s stories of the macabre and the occult, where a message from beyond the grave unmasks an insane killer, and a nun has the power to cause a landslide. Read by the prince of darkness, Christopher Lee. A collection of Agatha Christie’s stories of the macabre and...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. Every morning, at the same hour whilst on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help. He speaks to a resident of the cottage from which the cries...

Read by the charismatic Christopher Lee, this collection of three of Holmes’ cases tells of a missing diamond, a missing war hero and a savage yet faithful wolfhound. Contains: The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier The Adventure of the Creeping Man The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone The...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. When wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls to Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. In this supernatural tale by the Queen of Crime, a nun has memories of a past-life in an ancient civilisation and believes she can harness natural psychic...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. Mrs Lancaster doesn’t believe in ghosts. She moves her family into a house that has been derelict for years, unconcerned about the story of the young boy who lived...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. A man confides in a friend that he has a fear of gypsies stemming from childhood nightmares. When he sees a gypsy in a red scarf he becomes unhinged. Encapsulated in...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. A young man has seemingly lost his mind overnight. He can no longer speak, use his hands or recognise his nearest and dearest. Dr Carstairs, an expert in mental health...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. Broken down in the middle of nowhere Mortimer Cleveland, a psychic researcher, seeks shelter in an isolated home. From the moment he steps foot into the house he is...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. Sir Alington, a venerable expert of the mental condition is being pestered by the pretty, but fairly dotty Mrs. Eversleigh about the importance of the sixth sense...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. A medium agrees to perform one last seance before retiring. But even she could not have anticipated the chain of events that it...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. A lawyer, a doctor and a clergyman are discussing the details of a peculiar case of a woman suffering from a multiple personality disorder. Remarkably, in an...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. A loving nephew installs a radio in his elderly aunt’s house to distract her from her deteriorating health. Through the wireless she hears a voice encouraging her to...

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time on digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. After a close encounter with death, a materialistic man becomes entranced by strange music. Torn between the freedom he craves and the money he loves his behaviour...

Read by Hugh Fraser and Christopher Lee Witness for the Prosecution and Other Stories is a collection of eleven tantalizing tales of murder and other criminal pursuits—including the classic title story, the basis for the 1957 Oscar-nominated Billy Wilder film starring Marlene Dietrich, Tyrone...