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A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation starring John Moffatt as the great Belgian detective with Simon Williams and Philip Jackson. Alice Ascher, a poor, elderly shopkeeper, is murdered in Andover. Betty Barnard, a young waitress, is strangled with her own belt at Bexhill-on-Sea. Next comes Carmichael Clarke, collector of Chinese art, clubbed to death in Churston. Only in Doncaster does the pattern vary: the man found stabbed in the Regal Cinema is called George Earsfield.

As Hercule Poirot sifts through his post one particular morning, he alights upon a letter from an elderly and (as it transpires), exceedingly rich spinster - Miss Emily Arundell. She is clearly in great distress and seeking his help, but doesn’t say why. Her only specific mention is ‘the incident of the dog’s ball’. However, what intrigues Poirot is the date of the communication - it was written two months ago. He persuades Captain Hastings that they must visit the lady with all haste.

After the mysterious events at Coal Hill School, the British government has created the Counter-Measures group, a specialist team that investigates strange phenomena and dangerous technology. Their first missions will involve a haunted warehouse, a groundbreaking artificial intelligence, a mysterious new town and a threat to the future of the country.... Four full-cast audio dramas plus a behind- the-scenes documentary.

This is the very first Poirot/Hastings story. Set in 1916, we meet Captain Hastings as he is invalided out of the Great War and goes to convalesce at Styles Court, the family home of his great friend, John Cavendish. By an extraordinary coincidence, billeted in the village is a brilliant little retired detective with an egg-shaped head, who made a considerable impression on the Captain when he was in Belgium. Styles is not a happy household and in the blistering summer heat, tensions mount.

This book contains the following works: 1. Edgar Allan Poe: The Pit and the Pendulum 2. William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream 3. Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Secret Garden 4. Fyodor Dostoevsky: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man 5. Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island 6. H. P. Lovecraft: At the Mountains of Madness 7. Jack London: The Call of the Wild 8. Mary W. Shelley: Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus 9. Osamu Dazai: No Longer Human (Confessions of a Faulty Man) 10. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

The British government has created the Counter-Measures group, a specialist team that investigates strange phenomena and dangerous technology. This box set contains four of their adventures plus a behind-the-scenes documentary.

Drones: Money Making Mastermind, Starting Out, Maintaining Efficiency, and Boosting Profits, is the 6th book in the extremely popular Drones series written by Brian Halliday and it promises to guide you in how-to fashion ways in which you can boost the profitability of your UAV business. The book is a deep dive into the current UAV industry and many related sectors and hopes to guide you towards profitable niches for your business. It covers many other factors that influence the drone industry and includes but is not limited to: Finding your ideal niche.

The British government has created the Counter-Measures group, a specialist team that investigates strange phenomena and dangerous technology. This box set contains four of their adventures plus a behind-the-scenes documentary.

From a young Snapchat executive, TV host, and social critic comes an eye-opening guide for a unique generation of dreamers and doers who have been paralyzed by the pressures of life - to pause, press the reset button, and use the power of story to build a radical new life...and a new world.

The Write Stuff is the book-based panel show that takes a witty and whimsical look at well-known authors and their work. Host James Walton challenges the erudite contestants with tricky literary teasers, which they endeavour to answer using a combination of knowledge and guesswork.

Rick and his crew live on the edge of Earth Corps space, where the law is what you make it and the taxman doth fear to tread. While a war rages, he salvages its wreckage, profiteering from the misery of others. Despite his plan to sit it out from the sidelines and fill his pockets, Rick is drawn into a galactic conflict. When an alien armada is set to crash down upon Sol, he has to choose between cold hard cash or his conscience.

Ex-Special Forces soldier Connor (Skid) Ryan is recruited as a contractor by his former hated SAS officer to capture or kill Declan O’Malley, a notorious Sons Of Eirinn bombmaker. With soldiers from the PKK, Ryan has to execute a daring military operation - this time without his Special Forces comrades before the terrorists can use the WMD on the streets of Britain. The worlds security services of China, Russia, USA, and the UK are all desperately homing in to prevent another 9/11 atrocity on an even larger scale.

Off-Duty Police Sergeant Jason Knight from Bolton police station has disappeared whilst cycling in the Lancashire countryside. His wife raised the alarm. Jason is not the kind of man who would go missing. Something is very clearly wrong. The disappearance quickly becomes a full-scale alert, and counter-terror police are on standby, monitoring the situation extremely closely.

Paris, 1792 and the French Revolution. The guillotine claims lives each day. But working in ever-changing disguise is the Scarlet Pimpernel and his band of meddlesome Englishmen.

With a host of memorable characters and catchphrases, The Fast Show was one of the most popular BBC TV comedy shows ever. The talents of Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson, Caroline Aherne, Simon Day and many more come together in this collection of selected TV episodes and special edition of The Fast Show Live.

Climate lockdowns have caused an economic depression throughout America. The federal government creates a new branch of the military to enforce the climate lockdowns. This new branch, called the Climate Corps, is made up of draftees and volunteers. After a disputed presidential election, the governor of Texas meets with the governors of Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana to discuss secession. They decide to hold a snap election. The seeds of secession have sprouted.

Followers choose to have leaders! This book uses a short story of Sally who is a mid-level manager. Her team is struggling to make deadlines. Her boss, Tom, is a great leader. Tom coaches Sally through a transformation to adopt 9 key leadership principals. As the story progresses, Sally learns and implements leadership skills. We watch her team respond, grow and meet their deadlines. At the end of each chapter the key leadership principals are summarized for quick reference.

Ed Bush lives with his family in the coastal settlement of Chelmsford in South Britain, one of the United States of Europe. Their way of life is dictated entirely by the government known as Europarl. Every year at a four day celebration of human rights the people coming of age are assigned to their posts within the country. Ed doesn't think there is anything he can do about it until he meets an old man on the beach who lives outside the system, unknown to Europarl. Ed is recruited to join a rebel group and plans are made for him to leave with the old man, when he is distracted by the arrival of his new stepsister, Suzie. Will Ed leave with the rebels or stay with his family and accept his fate?

Ex-SAS soldier Conner Ryan is blackmailed by the British security services who know about the murder of Conner’s former SAS Officer. Forced to return to the military and the barbaric penal unit titled "Z Troop" Conner finds himself back on the lawless bloody streets of a united Ireland only this time fighting a new brutal civil war alongside the Irish Defence Forces against a fanatical Loyalist terrorist group its ranks swelled with former British soldiers incensed at the betrayal by the British Government.

After a dramatic life-changing event in the Dominican Republic, Luke, a keen amateur sailor, persuades his wife to abandon their life in England and set to sea to live their dream of freedom. During their voyage they are thrust into a world of crime, terrorism, and murder. In a web of deceit and intrigue, they are pursued by ruthless criminal organizations. In a plot which covers three continents, who will win and who will lose?