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The beautiful bronzed body of Arlena Stuart lay face down on the beach. But strangely, there was no sun and Arlena was not sunbathing…she had been strangled. Ever since Arlena’s arrival the air had been thick with sexual tension. Each of the guests had a motive to kill her, including Arlena’s new husband. But Hercule Poirot suspects that this apparent “crime of passion” conceals something much more evil.
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One year ago, seven people sat down to dinner. One of them, Rosemary Barton, never got up. She was thought to have committed suicide due to a post-flu depression. When her husband, George, begins receiving anonymous letters saying that Rosemary was murdered, he decides to investigate. He reconstructs the fateful dinner precisely, invites the same people, and hires an actress that looks like his wife to play her role. The actress does not arrive...
7) Suspense
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Radio Spirits proudly presents 10 hours of Suspense broadcasts from the series' first decade on the air, featuring some of its classic voices, including Agnes Moorehead and Joseph Kearns as "The Man In Black." Joining the regulars at the Suspense microphone were an impressive array of Hollywood stars--from the masculine voices of Peter Lorre and Edward G. Robinson, to the female voices of Lillian Gish, Lana Turner, and child star Margaret O'Brien....
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Back in print and now available in trade paperback, Dorothy L. Sayers' classic tale of murder and scandal at a chic London advertising agency, featuring the dashing and brilliant Lord Peter Wimsey. When executive Victor Dean dies from a fall down the iron staircase at Pym's Publicity, a posh London ad agency, Lord Peter Wimsey goes undercover to investigate. Before his tragic demise, the victim had tried to warn Mr. Pym, the firm's owner, about some...
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"Bill Johnstone and Bret Morrison star as amateur criminologist Lamont Cranston, alias The Shadow, 'a man of wealth, a student of science, and master of other people's minds' who has devoted his life to 'righting wrongs, protecting the innocent, and punishing the guilty.' Whether he is confronting scientists or spirits -- whether he is mastering mystics or machines -- whether he is facing fiends or the forces of nature, it is all a question of mind...
13) The third man
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THE THIRD MAN is one of the truly great post-war films. It is a thrilling story of black-marketeering set against a backdrop of Vienna in the immediate post-war era, when the city was divided into four zones amongst the major powers, Russia, Britain, France and America. The two main characters are quintessential Englishmen who attended the same public school. The story is written in the first person from the view of the British Chief of Police, who...
14) The gate house
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John Sutter volume 2
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"When John Sutter's aristocratic wife killed her mafia don lover, John left America and set out in his sailboat on a three-year journey around the world, eventually settling in London. Now, ten years later, he has come home to the Gold Coast, that stretch of land on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America, to attend the imminent funeral of an old family servant. Taking up temporary residence...
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Hercule Poirot mysteries volume 2
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An L.A. Theatre Works commissioned adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie "whodunit." Adapted from the novel by Kate McAll.
In Christie's clever and beautifully crafted tale, Detective Hercule Poirot receives an urgent letter from Paul Renauld summoning him to France. Upon their arrival, Poirot and his companion, Arthur Hastings, find they are too late. Plus, to complicate things further, certain facts just don't add up.
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Radio Spirits dares you to face fog-shrouded streets, escaped madmen, haunted houses, deadly creatures and curses…and the most horrifying thing of all…the heavy curtain descending on the final episode of Suspense. In this exciting collection, re-live great moments from the last two years of this legendary series. These thrill-packed episodes feature Raymond Edward Johnson, Robert Readick, Paul McGrath, Bernard Lenrow, Jackson Beck, and more in...