145 Results for : landowner
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Sherlock Holmes: The Boscombe Valley Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 62min
The Boscombe Valley Mystery is the fourth of the 12 stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in the Strand Magazine in 1891. Holmes is summoned to a community in Herefordshire where a local landowner has been murdered outdoors. The deceased's estranged son is strongly implicated. Holmes quickly determines that a mysterious third man may be responsible for the crime, unraveling a thread involving a secret criminal past, thwarted love, and blackmail. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Marc Smythe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/live/000522/bk_live_000522_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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15 Minute Drama: Une Vie (Complete Series), Hörbuch, Digital, 68min
Adrian Penketh's adaptation of Maupassant's first novel. Jeanne de Lamare - a sheltered and naive country aristocrat - leaves her convent education filled with thoughts of love and romance. Lamare marries a smallminded local landowner, and begins to discover how rotten and treacherous adult life is all around her. Jeanne believes that conceiving a second child will heal the ache in her heart caused by a loveless marriage in a rotten world. Language: English. Narrator: Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Robert Blythe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/006996/bk_bbcw_006996_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Boscombe Valley Mystery , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 59min
In "The Boscombe Valley Mystery", Inspector Lestrade summons Sherlock Holmes to a community in Herefordshire, where a local landowner has been murdered outdoors. The deceased's estranged son is strongly implicated. Holmes, employing his trusty magnifying glass quickly determines that a mysterious third man may be responsible for the crime, unraveling a thread involving a secret criminal past, thwarted love, and blackmail. This is the fourth of the 12 stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and was first published in the Strand Magazine in 1891. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Thorne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/drms/003457/bk_drms_003457_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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On Wings of Song , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 487min
Rebellious society girl Arabella Raynsford is leading a double life as a music hall singer, but to escape a possible scandal, she flees to Constantinople to join Florence Nightingale. Arabella’s ambitious mother wants her to marry wealthy Irish landowner Oswald Delaney but she has fallen in love with humble engineer Nat Sloane, a man her parents will never accept as a suitable husband.Besides, marriage will mean having to give up singing. Will she be able to find her path to happiness? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Julie Teal. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/001201/bk_isis_001201_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ordeal by Fire: Bradecote and Catchpoll , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 461min
September 1143. Bradecote is a minor landowner and newly appointed under-sheriff. His sergeant, Catchpoll, is a weather-beaten, wily and experienced thief-taker who always looks to be one step ahead of any villain. Bradecote though quite new to the job brings an effectively analytical eye to the investigation. A series of fires around the city seem linked, and Bradecote and Catchpoll have to piece together the vengeful motive that links them in order to uncover the arsonist. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Matt Addis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/isis/002747/bk_isis_002747_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Cherry Orchard , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 152min
The Cherry Orchard (1903) is the final play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It is considered as one of four outstanding plays by Chekhov, along with The Seagull, Three Sisters, and Uncle Vanya. The narrative recounts an aristocratic landowner who returns to her family estate just before it is auctioned to pay the mortgage. It dramatizes the socio-economic developments in Russia at the turn of the 20th century, including the rise of the middle class after the abolition of serfdom and the waning power of the aristocracy. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrea Giordani. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/001403/bk_yurt_001403_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Three Blind Mice: Matthew Hope, Book 9, Hörbuch, Digital, 176min
Jessica Leeds, wife of a prestigious Florida landowner, is brutally raped. Three Vietnamese immigrants are arrested and charged with the crime. After the ensuing trial results in their acquittal, Jessica's husband Stephen vows vengeance. Later, the three immigrants are found murdered, and of course the circumstances point to Stephen. Jessica turns to Matthew Hope, Florida lawyer and protagonist of Ed McBain's nursery rhyme and fairy tale series of mysteries. Hope takes the case - and discovers a situation far more complex and explosive than he, or his client, imagined. Language: English. Narrator: Ken Howard. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/pnix/000746/bk_pnix_000746_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Killerground: The Rhetta McCarter Mystery Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 475min
Righteous Rewards Retreat has its own unique aura - one of death. After the second mysterious death at the retreat, Rhetta McCarter re-examines her decision to help the neighboring landowner - a Native American tribe that her foundation selected as its first project - build a museum. Avery Fielding, the enigmatic leader of the retreat is determined to own the tribe's land and warns Rhetta away. Were the deaths really accidents? When she finds proof that someone from the retreat has been bulldozing a tribal burial site, will Rhetta be the next to die? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cynthia Hemminger. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/043602/bk_acx0_043602_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Seawinds , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 307min
An ordinary girl from the north, Dora experiences loss with the death of her first husband, and then the passing of her second husband, who was a rich landowner. Although she is now wealthy, she is still unfulfilled until she meets her school friend Abel whilst on holiday in Capri. After much hardship and heartbreak, she finds what her heart has been searching for, but will these feelings last, or will her happiness be taken from her once again… a story of love and loss that will pull on your heartstrings. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mary Lehnert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/112714/bk_acx0_112714_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Beware of Pity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 883min
In the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young cavalry officer is invited to a dance at the home of a rich landowner. There - with a small act of attempted charity - he commits a simple faux pas. But from this seemingly insignificant blunder comes a tale of catastrophe arising from kindness and of honour poisoned by self-regard. Beware of Pity has all the intensity and the formidable sense of torment and of character of the very best of Zweig's work. Definitive translation by the award-winning Anthea Bell. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicholas Boulton. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/dhrm/000064/bk_dhrm_000064_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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