Résultats Éditeur "Audible Studios" dans Historique

Billy Boyle awakens in a field hospital in Sicily with amnesia. In his pocket is a yellow silk handkerchief embroidered with the initial L. Gradually he remembers: he has been sent ashore in advance of the troops with this token from Lucky Luciano to contact the head of the Sicilian Mafia. But he must also thwart a murderous band of counterfeiters of Army scrip led by Vito Genovese.

On ne sait jamais ce que le passé nous réserve. 1911. Geoffrey Staddon, jeune architecte plein d'élans et d'espoir, vient de concevoir une magnifique demeure, Clouds Frome. Et il est tombé amoureux fou de la femme de son commanditaire, Consuela Caswell, une jeune Brésilienne perdue dans un mariage de convenance. Alors qu'il lui a promis de s'enfuir avec elle, il l' abandonne à son triste sort, préférant se consacrer pleinement à ses ambitions professionnelles.

While on a much-needed respite with her husband Sam in Nottinghamshire, undertaker Violet Harper is summoned to Welbeck Abbey by the Fifth Duke of Portland to prepare a body. His Grace is known as the "mad duke", and Violet has more than an inkling of why when she arrives at the grand estate and discovers that the corpse in question is that of the duke's favorite raven, Aristotle.

Camilleri inventa poco delle vicende che trasforma sulla pagina in vorticosi caroselli di persone e fatti - qui il fatto vero, conosciuto dalla celebre Inchiesta sulle condizioni della Sicilia del 1875-76, è il susseguirsi di intrighi, delitti e tumulti seguiti alla incomprensibile determinazione del prefetto di Caltanissetta, il toscano Bortuzzi, di inaugurare il teatro di Caltanissetta con una sconosciuta opera lirica, Il birraio di Preston. E anche in questo attenersi al fondo di verità storica c'è probabilmente un senso preciso: in Sicilia non serve attendere che la storia si ripeta per avere la farsa.

One of Victorian London's most respected undertakers, Violet Harper has the new duty of accompanying coffins from various undertakers on the London Necropolis Railway for respectful funerals and burials in Surrey. But on her fateful first trip, the mournful silence of the train is shattered by the shrill ringing of a coffin bell - a device that prevents a person from being buried alive.

Londres, 1678. Le corps d'un jeune garçon est retrouvé sur les rives de la Fleet River, entièrement vidé de son sang. À ses côtés, un étrange cryptogramme, qui suscite nombre d'interrogations. Complot religieux ? Politique ? Tueur isolé ? Dépêché sur les lieux, Robert Hooke, éminent scientifique de la Société royale de Londres, doit faire face à une enquête aussi délicate que complexe.

Après un naufrage en Méditerranée, le célèbre duo d'enquêteurs que forment le chevalier de Volnay, commissaire aux morts étranges, et son père, le moine hérétique, est momentanément séparé. Tandis que le moine se retrouve prisonnier de l'île de la mystérieuse Calypso qui révère les dieux de l'Egypte ancienne, le chevalier de Volnay devient esclave au Caire !

That Nelda Roundheels had been murdered would have been of little interest to anyone - except that her body turned up in the bishop of Winchester's bedchamber with a letter to the bishop, from the king's most important enemy, rolled up in her breastband. The bishop and his knight, Sir Bellamy of Itchen, realize immediately that the purpose of putting the body in Winchester's bedchamber is to embarrass and discredit the bishop. And the reason for this attack on Winchester is his calling of a convocation to chastise the king for acting high-handedly against the bishop of Salisbury.

Combien de temps encore le destin s'acharnera-t-il sur Sylvie de Valaines ? Non content de lui avoir pris sa mère, de l'avoir jetée dans les griffes de Laffemas - le bourreau du cardinal de Richelieu - qui l'a mariée de force avec l'un de ses amis et l'a violée, il s'affaire à l'éloigner de son François de Vendôme... Pour la mettre définitivement à l'abri, François décide de la faire passer pour morte et l'emmène à Belle-Isle avant de rejoindre son bataillon.

Après la mort de son époux, Sylvie de Fontsomme s'était bien juré de ne jamais revoir François de Beaufort et de vivre loin des frasques de la Cour. C'est sur les terres familiales qu'elle élève désormais sa fille Marie et son petit Philippe, dont la naissance doit rester secrète. Mais que ses espoirs étaient vains ! Le jeune roi Louis XIV exige son retour à la Cour où il lui sera impossible de ne pas croiser la route de François qu'elle n'a jamais cessé d'aimer.

Avril 1942. Au sortir d'un hiver rigoureux, Paris prend des airs de fête malgré les tracas de l'Occupation. Pétainiste et antisémite, l'inspecteur Léon Sadorski est un flic modèle doublé d'un mari attentionné. Il fait très correctement son travail à la 3ème section des Renseignements Généraux, contrôle et arrête les Juifs pour les expédier à Drancy. De temps en temps, il lui arrive de donner un coup de main aux Brigades spéciales, d'intervenir contre les "terroristes".

Roma, 45 d.C. Come sempre, i gladiatori scendono nell'arena rivolgendo il loro saluto all'imperatore: Ave, Caesar, morituri te salutant!. "Coloro che stanno per morire ti salutano!" Qualcuno sembra aver deciso di prendere fin troppo sul serio quell'antica formula: sotto lo sguardo stupefatto del senatore Publio Aurelio Stazio, dell'imperatore Claudio e di migliaia di romani, infatti, l'asso dell'arena, l'imbattibile, colossale Chelidone, si accascia al suolo inspiegabilmente. Non c'è nulla da fare, è morto.

Newspaper man Joe Henry finds himself the primary suspect when his friend, fellow reporter Wynton Gresham, is murdered. Both were veterans of French battles during WWI - the war that was supposed to end all wars.

Roma, settembre 1683. In una locanda nel cuore della Città Santa la morte improvvisa di un viaggiatore semina il panico: veleno o peste? Per paura del contagio, gli ospiti vengono rinchiusi in quarantena nelle proprie stanze. Tra loro c'è l'abate Atto Melani, ex cantante castrato e ora agente segreto del Re Sole, deciso a scoprire cosa si celi dietro quella strana morte. Atto dovrà scontrarsi con le reticenze e le paure degli altri ospiti, con lo spettro della peste che aleggia sulla locanda.

What's a 22-year-old Irish American cop who's never been out of Massachusetts before doing at Beardsley Hall, an English country house, having lunch with King Haakon of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home in Southie, hed barely made detective when war was declared. Unwilling to fight and perhaps die for England, he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married to her distant cousin.

En cet hiver 1791, la France est au bord du chaos. Depuis sa fuite à Varennes, Louis XVI est totalement discrédité. Royalistes et nouveaux députés se menacent, armes à la main et la tension est extrême. C'est dans ce contexte explosif qu'Anne-Louise Ferrières disparaît. La belle et mystérieuse fille d'aristocrates désargentés, encore célibataire à trente ans, n'a pas été vue depuis une semaine. Et une semaine, avec ce froid polaire... Plus personne ne s'attend à la retrouver en vie. Enlèvement ? Suicide ? Fuite ?

The letter came in secret, with a pearl eardrop from an aunt long thought dead, resurrecting the forbidden past. Banished by her spiteful half sister, Queen Mary, to Hatfield House in the English countryside, 25-year-old Princess Elizabeth cannot refuse the summons. The Boleyns are in grave danger. And Elizabeth, daughter of Anne Boleyn, is marked for death by a master poisoner whose reign of terror may have royal sanction.

An old English Yule has never been merrier or more mysterious. A New Year's celebration has never looked more joyous but been so potentially deadly. Fearing the 12 Days of Christmas of 1564 may be the last for her ailing, elderly friend, Lady Kat Ashley, Queen Elizabeth decrees a nostalgic, old-fashioned holiday. Delicious dishes for the table, holly and ivy, caroling, wassailing, mumming, and a Lord of Misrule to oversee it all are in the recipe for the revels. But one of the queen's kitchen staff is found as dead as the ornate peacock he was preparing for the feast.

Falkenberg, Sweden. The mutilated body of talented young jewellery designer, Linnea Blix, is found in a snow-swept marina. Hampstead Heath, London. The body of a young boy is discovered with similar wounds to Linnea's. Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1944. In the midst of the hell of the Holocaust, Erich Hebner will do anything to see himself as a human again. Are the two murders the work of a serial killer, and how are they connected to shocking events at Buchenwald?

Happily married for over a year and more in love than ever, Darcy and Elizabeth can’t imagine anything interrupting their bliss-filled days. Then an intense snowstorm strands a group of travelers at Pemberley, and terrifying accidents and mysterious deaths begin to plague the manor. Everyone seems convinced that it is the work of a phantom - a Shadow Man who is haunting the Darcy family’s grand estate.