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The Uma Rao Mysteries
Three original murder mysteries featuring Bangalore detective Uma Rao
Actor, writer and director Mahesh Dattani is the first playwright in English to be awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award by India’s National Academy of Letters. Included here are all
V.I. Warshawski – A BBC Radio Collection
BBC radio productions of the first four bestselling V.I. Warshawski novels from Sara Paretsky – plus a short story featuring the hardboiled PI, read by Buffy Davis
One of the most popular female sleuths in modern crime fiction, Chicago private eye V.
Read more…Fear on Four
An unsettling collection of full-cast dramas from the long-running BBC Radio 4 horror series.
Throughout five series between 1988-1997, Edward de Souza was The Man in Black, a sinister raconteur who introduced a weekly half hour of terror and susp
Read more…Berkely Mather – The Sand Leopard & Other Vintage Thrillers
Ten full-cast BBC Radio thrillers by Berkely Mather
Berkely Mather (real name John Evan Weston-Davies) was a British author who wrote sixteen novels ranging from historical adventures to espionage fiction. A prolific writer for television and radio,
Read more…Inspector Coleman and Sergeant Astor
Like his actor namesake, Ronald Coleman is a suave, well-spoken English gentleman. But although he’s a movie buff, Coleman is no film star – he’s a copper, and a Detective Inspector to boot. Together with his down-to-earth Scottish partner, DS Fred A
A Charles Paris Mystery
Thespian sleuth Charles Paris is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who can resist anything except temptation - especially in the form of women and alcohol. Estranged from his long-suffering wife, Frances, his personal life is shambolic, and as an ac
P Division
By: Peter Turnbull Narrated by: Andrew Conlan, Ann Louise Ross, Crawford Logan, Eliza Langland, Frank Gallagher, Full Cast, Jake D’Arcy, Martin Cochrane, Martin McCardie, Ralph Riach
All 18 episodes of the police procedural featuring the Glasw
Unofficial Rosie: The Complete Series 1 and 2
A BBC Radio 4 crime drama about a Merseyside mum-turned-private eye
Single mum Rosie Monaghan is 39 and redundant. Wondering what to do with the rest of her life – and with two kids to support – she decides to start a new career as a private detectiv
Read more…P. D. James BBC Radio Drama Collection
Seven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of P. D. James' acclaimed mysteries,
This collection includes:
Cover Her Face
P. D. James' debut novel, introducing her famous detective Adam Dalgliesh. Starring Robin Ellis as Dalgliesh.
A Taste for Death
D
Read more…Robert Barr - Detective: The Complete BBC Radio 4 Crime Drama
All four radio series of Robert Barr’s gripping London-based police drama.
Originally broadcast as Detective: Stories of Crime and Detection in London, this BBC radio drama ran for four series between 1980 and 1985. Written by the award-winning creat
Read more…Father Brown: The Complete Series 1 and 2
Andrew Sachs stars as G.K. Chesterton's crime-solving cleric, whose unlikely methods make him one of the great heroes of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction
With his black hat, huge umbrella, unworldly simplicity and 'beaming but breathless genial
Read more…Second Holmes: Six BBC Radio Full-Cast Adventures
It is the 1980s, and Stamford Holmes is still living in the shadow of his famous grandfather. Languidly living on Sherlock's fortune, he reluctantly agrees to do some work as a consulting detective - if only to provide 'Doctor' Watson with material f
The Complete George Smiley Radio Dramas
The complete collection of acclaimed BBC Radio dramas based on John le Carré's best-selling novels, starring Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley. With a star cast including Kenneth Cranham, Eleanor Bron, Brian Cox, Ian MacDiarmid, Anna Chancellor
Read more…Paul Temple: The Complete Radio Collection
Paul Temple is a fictional character created by English writer Francis Durbridge. Temple is a professional author of crime fiction and an amateur private detective. With his wife Louise, affectionately known as 'Steve' in reference to her journali
Read more…Inspector Steine: The Complete BBC Radio 4 Comedy Crime Drama
All four series of Lynne Truss's comedy thrillers set in 1950s Brighton - plus Christmas special
Brighton, 1957: a sunny seaside resort with a sinister underbelly. This den of villainy is policed by the touchingly innocent Inspector Steine, who nai
Edgar Wallace: A Classic BBC Radio Crime Collection
Edgar Wallace was a bestselling author, journalist, playwright and film director, and the creator of King Kong. A prolific writer and celebrity superstar, he was thought to be responsible for a quarter of all new books read in Britain by the late 192
The Algernon Blackwood BBC Radio Collection
A collection of strange and fantastical tales from Algernon Blackwood, plus bonus documentaries
Described by H P Lovecraft as 'the one absolute and unquestioned master of weird atmosphere', Algernon Blackwood (CBE) was the acclaimed and prolific au
The Twelve Maidens
A new form of radar picks up sentient life – except on a nearby hilltop crowned with a circle of stones. Martin Jarvis and Patricia Gallimore star in Stewart Farrar’s sci-fi serial
Researchers develop a system than can detect sentient life. But some
Read more…Robert Louis Stevenson: A BBC Radio Drama Collection
A thrilling collection of dramatisations from the classic Scottish master of tales
Robert Louis Stevenson was a novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer, and created some of the most famous and influential characters in modern literature. From Lo
