His tales elicit a deep sympathy for all people, wherever they may be, in Russia more than a hundred years ago or anywhere in the world today. These translations, by Constance Garnett, Marian Fell, and others, are offered here as public domain recordings created both for Topics: audiobook, LibriVox, short stories, Russian Literature, high school, higher education, Chekhov, On the morning that he and his downtrodden wife, Gerda, are due to travel down to the country to weekend with friends, Dr John Christow, a successful physician and leading researcher, allows his little daughter to tell his fortune with cards.
When the death card is drawn, he pays no attention, but the appearance of an old flame at The Hollow seems to be the final link in a chain of fatal circumstances. The full length novel was preceded by a short story with the same title, but with Black Coffee is a novelization by the Australian-born writer and opera expert Charles Osborne of the play of the same name by crime fiction author Agatha Christie. Martin's Press on 31 December It features Christie's famous literary creation Hercule Poirot , a London-based Belgian private detective.
Until the A Witcher podfic rated E. Topic: podfic. This is a growing collection of short stories by Tolstoy. Current audiobook length 1 hr and 48 mins. After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin. Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council.
If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the Lady Tressilian invites her ward for his annual visit at Gull's Point. He insists on bringing both his former wife and his present wife, though Lady Tressilian finds this awkward. Her old friend dies, and Superintendent Battle and his nephew are called in. The book is the last to feature her recurring character of Superintendent Battle.
Read by Hugh Fraser favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite 1 reviews Topics: Agatha Christie, audio-book, mystery, murder, detective.
A Witcher podfic rated Explicit. The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and one collection of short stories; the five Tommy and Tuppence books span Agatha Christie's writing career. The Great War is over, and jobs are scarce. They are hired for a job that leads them both to many dangerous situations, meeting allies as well, including an Topics: Agatha Christie, audio-book, mystery, murder, detective.
Crooked House published in is a whodunit novel by Agatha Christie. The action takes place in and near London in the autumn of Christie has said that this was one of her two favorites of her own works, the other being Ordeal by Innocence. The first person narrator is Charles Hayward who, towards the end of the Second World War, occupies some post in Cairo. There he meets Sophia Leonides, who works for the Foreign One of the most celebrated thrillers ever written, The Day of the Jackal is the electrifying story of an anonymous Englishman who, in the spring of , was hired to assassinate General Charles de Gaulle.
This novel dramatizes the seventh, mostly deadly attempt, involving a professional killer for hire who would be unknown to the French Police. The book features Hercule Poirot, Sir George and Lady Stubbs are holding the village fete in their grounds.
Every detail is arranged with her customary flair and ingenuity - and the scene is set for Murder. But Ariadne is uncomfortable. Something is not quite right - if only she knew what it was. In desperation she telephones her old friend Hercule Poirot for assistance Though terrified, she begs Poirot not to find and punish her killer. Once she is dead, she insists, justice will have been done. Later that night, Poirot learns that three guests at a London Hotel have been murdered, and a monogrammed cuff link has been placed in each one's mouth.
Could there be a A Witcher podfic rated for Teen and Up Audiences. When a bored diplomat is approached in a bleak airport by a woman whose life is in danger, he agrees in a moment of weakness to lend her his passport and boarding ticket.
Suddenly, Stafford Nye's own life is on the line, for he has unwittingly entered a web of international intrigue, from which the only escape is to outwit the power-crazed Countess von Waldsausen who is hell-bent on world domination through the manipulation and arming of the planet's youth, which brings with it what promises to It is the only Christie first edition published in the UK that contains stories with both Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple , the writer's two most famous detectives.
It was not published An on-going series of unabridged short stories and poems that visits the borders between genius and madness. Some, but not all, recordings are in the Public Domain as read Topics: audiobook, literature, librivox, Russian literature, world literature, Alan Davis Drake, Man Booker Prize Winner, Salman Rushdie holds the literary world in awe with a jaw-dropping catalog of critically acclaimed novels that have made him one of the world's most celebrated authors.
Winner of the prestigious Booker of Bookers, Midnight's Children tells the story of Saleem Sinai, born on the stroke of India's independence. Topics: Salman Rushdie, Audiobook, Novel. The book features the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and reflects Christie's experiences travelling in the Middle East with her husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan.
Holidaying in Jerusalem , Poirot overhears Raymond Boynton telling his sister, "You do see, don't you, that she's got to be killed?
When she is found dead on a trip to Petra , Poirot proposes to solve the case in Back in I Robo aka Drew Dobbs spent weeks going through piles of old diaries, photos and art to create a lengthy blog about my years in the band Big City Orchestra. Now in late , I finally got around to creating a "book" version for posterity, completely reformatted and with new elements to bring the history up to the "present".
At plus pages it includes a ton of data, photos, posters and art from my time in the band, much of the art by me. Due to the large A novel adapted by Charles Osborne from an Agatha Christie play. When a stranger runs his car runs into a ditch in dense fog near the South Wales coast, and makes his way to an isolated house, he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheel-chair bound husband, a gun in her hand.
She readily admits to murder, and the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story. But is it possible Laura Warwick did not commit the crime after all? If so, who is she shielding? As the Poirot's long memory for past or similar crimes proves useful in resolving the crimes. The book is notable for a subplot in which Hastings falls in love, a development "greatly desired on Agatha's part From to she wrote short stories for both children and adults which were published in such magazines as Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, the Century, and Harper's Youth's Companion.
She also wrote two novels: At Fault and The Awakening The Odessa File is a thriller by Frederick Forsyth , first published in , about the adventures of a young German reporter attempting to discover the location of a former SS concentration-camp commander.
Henry David Thoreau accomplished much in his short 45 years. Over the generations, he continued to influence the lives of both everyman and those who would one day themselves shape history, including Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Many of these poems were recorded for The novel features the recurring character of Colonel Race for his last appearance Clarissa, the young wife of a foreign office diplomat, delights in tweaking the sensibilities of her more serious friends by playing a game she calls "supposing"--imagining a difficult situation and finding out how people would respond.
But Clarissa's lighthearted games becomes deadly serious when she discovers the body of an unknown person in her own drawing room. If that weren't bad enough, her husband is on the way home with an important foreign politician. Clarissa decides to The novel features Hercule Poirot and Arthur Hastings in their final appearances in Christie's works.
It is a country house novel, with all the characters and the murder set in one house. Not only does the novel return the characters to the setting of her first, The Mysterious Affair at Styles , but it reunites Poirot and Hastings, who last appeared together in Dumb Witness in It was adapted for television in It is the last novel published by Christie before her death, The novel features her novelist detective Ariadne Oliver as a minor character, and reflects in tone the supernatural novels of Dennis Wheatley who was then at the height of his popularity.
The Pale Horse is mentioned in Revelation , where it is ridden by Death. A dying woman, Mrs Davis, gives her last confession to Father Gorman, a Catholic priest, but along with her confession she gives him a list of names and a terrible secret. Before he can take action, After their triumphant recovery of a pink pearl, intriguing cases kept on coming their way: a stabbing on Sunningdale golf course; cryptic messages in the personal columns of newspapers; and even a box of poisoned chocolates.
Read by James Warwick favorite favorite 2 reviews Topics: Agatha Christie, audio-book, mystery, murder, detective. Death Comes as the End is a historical mystery novel by Agatha Christie , i t is the only one of Christie's novels not to be set in the 20th century, and — unusually for her — also features no European characters.
Instead, the novel is set in Thebes in BC, a setting for which Christie gained an appreciation of while working with her archaeologist husband, Sir Max Mallowan in the Middle East.
The novel is notable for its very high number of deaths and is Topics: Agatha Christie, audiobook, mystery, murder, detective. Free audio download. Here is F. Hot Picks. First Cam. New Movies. New TV. Log in to rate this torrent. Report Torrent. Torrent verified by zakareya. Scraping all torrent trackers. Please wait File Size free audiobook version. The year a final, top-secret mission to the moon.
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