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Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

Lady Susan has just arrived uninvited at the country home of her brother-in-law, Charles, and his unwelcoming wife, Catherine. Susan’s reputation as an accomplished coquette precedes her, and Catherine will not allow her own brother, Reginald, to fall prey to Susan’s amorous games. Despite warnings, the besotted young man finds himself falling - all to the conniving lady’s delight. And in Austen’s unfinished work, The Watsons, a family reunion sparks the passionate pursuits of four sisters.

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

Ex-snuten Dennis Milne lever under ny identitet på Filippinerna när han plötsligt snubblar över en ledtråd som skulle kunna lösa mordet på en gammal vän. Han bestämmer sig för att återvända till den stad han en gång kallade för sitt hem och ta reda på vem som ligger bakom mordet. Milne anländer till ett kallt och fientligt London strax före jul. Men han är inte längre polis, han behöver inte längre se till att gatorna är lugna och att lagen följs.

En helt vanlig kväll i november väntar kriminalinspektör Dennis Milne på att tre män ska anlända till parkeringen utanför ett hotell i London. Han är dock inte där i egenskap av polis. Dennis Milne extraknäcker som yrkesmördare för en av Londons farligaste gangstrar, Raymond Keen. Extraknäcket är Milnes sätt att ta lagen i egna händer och skipa den rättvisa han inte kan som polis.

Harriet Greenleaf dreams of spending the summer in a beautiful ancient priory on the Somerset coast with her two best friends - but her dream is bittersweet. On the one hand, it’s a chance to reconnect three lives that have drifted apart; on the other, she has a devastating secret to share that will change everything between them forever. First to arrive is Audrey - the workaholic who’s heading for a heart attack unless she slows down and makes time for herself. Then Lisa, the happy-go-lucky flirt who’s always struggled to commit to anyone - or anything.

Lilian Morrison has one memento of her beloved sister, Emma: a battered silver music box. A family heirloom that was passed down through two world wars, the box was the key to Lilian’s recent, joyous reunion with the surviving members of her birth family, whom she lost many years earlier when she and her sister fled Hitler’s Germany on the Kindertransport. Now Lilian is compelled to investigate Emma’s final days after the girls were shipped to separate foster families in Britain and the time before Emma was killed in the London Blitz.

'The Adventure of the Yellow Face' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes is visited by a man who shares a story about how his wife has decieved him, adding that her motives remain mysterious to him. Holmes agrees to take on the case.

Helen Stoner consults Sherlock Holmes about the death of her twin sister, Julia, who died before her wedding, crying that: it was the Speckled Band!Holmes must investigate their mother's estate and the unpleasant Dr. Roylott, Helen's stepfather, who allows gypsies to camp on his estate and has both a cheetah and a baboon running amok in the grounds. But can Helen be believed? Is Dr Roycroft as bad as he seems?

'The Adventure of the Gloria Scott' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. This story pertains to Sherlock's earliest case, recounted by Watson. Back in his university days, Holmes endeavours to solve the mystery behind his friend's father's death by decoding a secret note.

'The Adventure of the Reigate Puzzle' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes finds his services are needed when Watson takes him to a friend's estate in Surrey. After hearing about a burglary in a nearby estate and a murder in another, Holmes is presented with just one clue: a torn piece of paper with only a few words on it.

'The Adventure of the Naval Treaty' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Dr. Watson reveives a letter from an old friend, now a Foreign Office employee, who had an important naval treaty stolen from his office. Watson refers the problem to Holmes, who takes to the case with considerable interest....

'The Adventure of the Silver Blaze' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes and Watson travel to Dartmoor to get to the bottom of a peculiar case that involves the dissapearance of Silver Blaze - a great racehorse - and the murder of his trainer.

'The Adventure of the Crooked Man' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes invites Watson to witness the final stage of an investigation. A colonel is dead, and his wife is considered the prime suspect. While all the signs seem to point to her, Sherlock seems to think otherwise.

'The Adventure of the Resident Patient' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Doctor Trevelyan has landed in a peculiar business arrangement, whereby a man named Blessington has provided him with a prestigious address to practice in return for three-quarters of his income. After a series of strange happenings, Blessington has become increasingly paranoid and agitated, causing the doctor to present the problem to Holmes.

'The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. It comes to light that Holmes has a brother called Mycroft - one with a brilliant mind like his own. Unable to solve a case, Mycroft asks Sherlock to look into it.

'The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. In this frame tale, Holmes recounts the events of a particular case he worked on in relation to a university acquantance, whose domestic staff vanished after secretly reading a family document. The document was in fact a riddle, which - in order to understand the peculiarities of the case - Holmes must solve.

'The Adventure of the Stockbroker's Clerk' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes takes on a case involving a young clerk who has been offered a job with a remarkable salary but is most concerned about the peculiar conditions to which he must agree....

'The Adventure of the Final Problem' is one of 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes goes head to head with a criminal mastermind whom he regards as his only intellectual equal.

Forensic pathologist Janis Amatuzio first began recording the stories told to her by patients, police officers, and other doctors because she felt that no one spoke for the dead. She believed the real experience of death, namely the spiritual and otherworldly experiences of those near death and their loved ones, was ignored by the medical professionals, who thought of death as simply the cessation of breath. She knew there was more.