"London was wrapped in fog when Inspector John Cheviot got into a twentieth century taxi. The city was still fogbound when he got out - but the cab was a hackney coach, the
Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (née Grasemann; 17 February 1930 – 2 May 2015) was an English author of thrillers and psychological murder mysteries. Rendell's best-known creation, Chief Inspector Wexford, was the hero of many
An adaptation of Ngaio Marsh 's whodunnit, featuring detective Roderick Alleyn. Jonathan Royal is a man rich enough to indulge his somewhat extravagant sense of the theatrical. But when he hits on the bizarre idea of throwing a weekend party with gu
London. 1980s. The provenance of a 're-badged' Jaguar XJS leads a journalist and his car dealer pal into violent confrontation with a brutal criminal gang.
The 'good guys' are surprisingly callous at times.
Thrilling Stories Of The Railway Five short crime stories featuring amateur sleuth and railway expert Thorpe Hazell. Fiction's first speciality detective Thorpe Hazell uses his locomotive expertise to solve the audacious and ingenious crimes plagui
Michael Flynn
Another popular series from The CBC Mystery Project is Flynn, a 13 episode run from the mid-1990's. In this one, MICHAEL FLYNN is a part-time private detective living on his boat in Vancouver. A drop-out from UBC Law School , he now li
The villagers of Denzil St. David near Norwich will not forget that night in February 1947. The unusually high tides were battering at the sea walls and the countryside was threatened with severe floo
Recipe For Murder
The CBC Mystery Project (1-4 of 8 Aired)
This series of eight mystery stories (I only have the first four) is a production of CBC Radio. The stories are rather congenial, like an Agatha Christie BBC mystery, a lot of fascinating a
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By Heron Carvic, adapted for radio by Betty Lambda
When Miss Seeton walks out of a performance of Carmen and witnesses a stabbing, all she can recall is a shadowy figure. But how could even she have guessed that her latest dra
When Eva is killed by a hit-and-run driver, her brother Gregory is under suspicion. Not only does he deny being involved, he also denies that the body is that of his sister.