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A collection of the BBC’s dramatisations of Ngaio Marsh’s most famous sleuth: Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn. Includes 'A Man Lay Dead', 'A Surfeit of Lampreys', 'Opening Night' and 'When in Rome'.

The Water Margin is one of the most popular classics of early Chinese literature. It tells the vigorous story of 108 characters who, falling foul of the established state authorities, are forced to become outlaws. They form a bandit community in Liangshan Marsh, becoming such a formidable force in their own right that they threaten the power of government itself.

Helena's home is like anyone else's. With a husband and two daughters, and a job she enjoys. But no one knows the truth about her childhood. Born into captivity and brought up in an isolated cabin until she was 12, Helena was raised to be a killer by the man who kept her captive – her own father.

Jeremy Marsh steht als Wissenschaftsjournalist kurz vor dem Durchbruch: Er hat sich auf die Entlarvung angeblich übernatürlicher Phänomene spezialisiert und gerade erst einen Hellseher vor laufender Kamera entlarvt. Nun lockt ihn ein neuer Fall nach Boone Creek, North Carolina, wo er herausfinden soll, was hinter geisterhaften Lichterscheinungen auf einem Friedhof steckt.

Griechische Mythologie mit neuem Twist in tollem Venedig-Setting! Eigentlich hat Ava gelernt, ihre Wut im Zaum zu halten. Doch nun ist sie doch explodiert, und ihr Widersacher ist plötzlich wie versteinert! Als ihre Mutter davon erfährt, ist der Fall klar: Ava muss auf die Accademia del Forte, ein besonderes Internat In Venedig – und ihr Bruder Jax kommt gleich mit. Eine aufregende neue Welt tut sich auf: Ava lernt, dass auch die gruseligen Monster der griechischen Mythologie Nachkommen haben. Sie selbst stammt von Medusa ab! Mit den anderen Nachfahren soll sie lernen, ihre Kräfte zu kontrollieren.

Wie arbeitet ein Hirnchirurg? Wie fühlt es sich an, in das Organ zu schneiden, mit dem Menschen denken und träumen? Wie geht man damit um, wenn das Leben eines Patienten von der eigenen Heilkunst abhängt? Und wie, wenn man scheitert? Mehr noch als in anderen Bereichen der Medizin ist es in der Hirnchirurgie so gut wie unmöglich, nie einem Patienten zu schaden, denn Operationen am Innersten des Menschen sind immer mit unkalkulierbaren Risiken verbunden. Man kann die Arbeit von Hirnchirurgen mit dem "Entschärfen einer Bombe" vergleichen.

Die Ballsaison ist eröffnet! England, 1809. Die junge Frances und ihre Freundinnen Prudence und Rose können es gar nicht erwarten, ihre erste Ballsaison zu besuchen. Gemeinsam fiebern sie Londons schier unzähligen Vergnügungen rund um die Debütantinnenbälle entgegen. Doch ihre Freundschaft wird auf die Probe gestellt, als Frances versucht, den begehrtesten Junggesellen der Saison auf sich aufmerksam zu machen. Dabei wollte Prudence ihn erobern - und Frances hat eigentlich ganz andere Vorstellungen von ihrem Leben und der Liebe.

Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the fashionable Murder Game, in which a guest is secretly selected to commit a 'murder' in the dark, and everyone assembles to solve the crime. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse....

Lords, Ladys und die große Liebe. London, 1807: Als die theaterbegeisterte Emma in eine Notlage gerät, muss sie sich von Lady Darlington als Gesellschafterin anstellen lassen. Die Lady will ihre Tochter Anthea mit dem reichen Nachbarn Mr Livingston verheiraten - ausgerechnet mit Emmas Hilfe. Leider scheint sich Anthea mehr für den berüchtigten Dandy Ambrose Beauchamp zu interessieren als für den Nachbarn. Geschickt versucht Emma daher mit einem Theaterstück der Liebe auf die Sprünge zu helfen.

Sir John Phillips, the Harley Street surgeon, and his beautiful nurse, Jane Harden, are almost too nervous to operate. The emergency case on the table before them is the Home Secretary - and they both have very good, personal reasons to wish him dead. Within hours he does die, although the operation itself was a complete success, and Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn must find out why....

As the sun rises, a wealthy young woman, Samantha Seabrook, is found drowned in the ornamental fountain of a deserted Cambridge courtyard, the only clue: an antique silver chain wound tightly around her throat. It’s Tara Thorpe’s job to discover what happened to Miss Seabrook. But the case becomes personal when she learns that Samantha had been receiving death threats, rather like the one that landed on Tara’s doorstep the night the woman died. Together with Detective Inspector Garstin Blake, Tara tracks the killer to the dank and dangerous fens on the outskirts of the city.

What is it really like to be a brain surgeon, to hold someone's life in your hands, to drill down into the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? In this brutally honest account, one of the country's top neurosurgeons reveals what it is to play god in life-and-death situations. Henry Marsh gives us a rare insight into the intense drama of the operating theatre and the exquisite complexity of the human brain.

Jeremy Marsh hat für Lexie, die Frau seines Lebens, New York verlassen und ist mit ihr in ein Provinznest gezogen. Als sich ein Kind ankündigt, scheint ihr Glück perfekt, doch nun quälen ihn Zweifel. Es war Liebe auf den ersten Blick, aber kennt er Lexie wirklich? ...

The Beetle is a horror novel that was published in 1897 and significantly outsold Dracula, which appeared in the same year. A polymorphous Egyptian creature – the Beetle – seeks revenge on the eminent British politician Paul Lessingham for crimes committed against the disciples of an ancient cult. Although it is less well-known than Dracula to modern audiences, The Beetle remains a leading example of the Gothic novel.

At last, Helena Pelletier has the life she deserves. A loving husband, two beautiful daughters, a business that fills her days. Then she catches an emergency news announcement and realizes she was a fool to think she could ever leave her worst days behind her. Helena has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

One grey dismal day, Janine Marsh was on a trip to northern France to pick up some cheap wine. She returned to England a few hours later having put in an offer on a rundown old barn in the rural Seven Valleys area of Pas de Calais. This was not something she'd expected or planned for. Janine eventually gave up her job in London to move with her husband to live the good life in France. Or so she hoped. While getting to grips with the locals and la vie Française, and renovating her dilapidated new house, a building lacking the comforts of mains drainage, heating, or proper rooms.

Werewolf shifter Ware Evans lives for the road, his bike, and his MC. He has his own brand of honor. And when a member of the Breed motorcycle club kidnaps a human female, Ware's ready to take action. Free the girl. Punish the wolf. Make sure said girl never talks about the club or reveals its shifter secrets. Club rules come first and Ware is the enforcer of the rulebook. But when Ware actually meets the naked woman tied up in the remote Louisiana Bayou cabin, sees the fear and defiance in her soft brown eyes, all bets are off.

Cambridgeshire, September 1813: Detective Stephen Lavender and Constable Ned Woods are lured to an isolated estate in the deadly marshland surrounding Ely, to investigate a murder.

The season had begun. Débutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that something was up. He had already planted his friend Lord Robert Gospell at the scene. But someone else got there first...

1347 Hidden Hollows Road. It’s a place of refuge for Lila Anderson who is heartbroken over her cheating boyfriend. She needs to get away and heal from the pain. And it seems like the perfect spot to hide away from the world.