79 Results for : lodgings
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The Haunter of the Dark , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 65min
FNH Audio presents an unabridged reading of H P Lovecraft's classic tale. When Robert Blake took his lodgings on the Upper East Side he thought that the view across the city would inspire his writing. But the mysterious church steeple across the valley kept drawing his attention. Something was different about it, something mysteriously alluring. Finally he can resist no longer and makes his way to the church. The locals shun the church, which has been locked for decades. So Blake breaks in and finds the unimaginable: horror, and madness, and the Haunter of the Dark. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Felbrigg Napoleon Herriot. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/fnha/000645/bk_fnha_000645_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Study in Scarlet
'There's a scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.'From the moment Dr John Watson takes lodgings in Baker Street with the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, he becomes intimately acquainted with the bloody violence and frightening ingenuity of the criminal mind. In A Study in Scarlet , Holmes and Watson's first mystery, the pair are summoned to a south London house where they find a dead man whose contorted face is a twisted mask of horror. The body is unmarked by violence but on the wall a mysterious word has been written in blood. The police are baffled by the crime and its circumstances. But when Sherlock Holmes applies his brilliantly logical mind to the problem he uncovers a tragic tale of love and deadly revenge . . .- Shop: buecher
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A Study in Scarlet [Classic Tales Edition] , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 355min
Dr. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes meet and set up their lodgings at 221B Baker St. Over the course of several weeks, the good doctor finally persuades his mysterious roommate to reveal what exactly is his occupation. It seems that Sherlock Holmes is a self-proclaimed consulting detective. And as incredible as it sounds, the facts prove it to be true. A Study in Scarlet is the first Sherlock Holmes story/novella. Also included is the Edgar Allan Poe story: "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", generally considered the very first detective story. In this audiobook you get a firsthand glimpse into the very roots of detective fiction. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: B.J. Harrison. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harr/000125/bk_harr_000125_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Death of Olliver Becaille , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 68min
It's a horror story. The fear of premature burial. It's also a love story. A young man and his beautiful bride move to Paris for new start. They arrive at their lodgings after a 15 hour train trip. He falls into a catatonic state, which is mistaken for death. Two other lodgers are only two anxious to help the new widow. An old woman, and the handsome young man who has just inherited a fortune. We travel with the unfortunate from his "deathbed" to his burial. The protagonist is aware of all that is going on around him. Problem is to the rest of the world he appears dead. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Mike Vendetti. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001038/bk_mike_001038_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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A Study in Scarlet, Hörbuch, Digital, 35min
On his rigid face was an expression of horror and hatred such as I had never seen before upon human features. When Dr. Watson agrees to share lodgings with Sherlock Holmes, he soon finds himself involved in a shocking and mysterious murder case. What will Holmes discover when he examines the body? There are no marks on the dead man, so why is there so much blood at the scene of the crime? Inspector Lestrade and Inspector Gregson have asked Holmes to help them. But will they listen to his advice? Can the famous detective and his new friend discover the truth before the murderer strikes again? Language: English. Narrator: Rob Penman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rlrd/000032/bk_rlrd_000032_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Vicar of Tours , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 137min
Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist and playwright. Balzac is regarded as one of the founders of realism in European literature, on account of his keen observation of detail and his multifaceted characters. He influenced many famous authors, including Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Gustave Flaubert, Jack Kerouac and Henry James. The Vicar of Tours is an 1832 novella that tells the story of the Abbé François Birotteau and the Abbé Hyacinthe Troubert, priests at Tours, who have separate lodgings in the house of Sophie Gamard. Birotteau is a gentle, introspective type while Troubert is a careerist driven by ambition. Balzac brilliantly portrays the psychological warfare that the three characters wage among each other. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Holly Brienne. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/yurt/001364/bk_yurt_001364_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Christmas at Last Chance Lodge , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 271min
Brigette Harmon is exiled to a small town in New Hampshire to run the Lovely Lucy Lodge before the Christmas Festival. With a new chain hotel coming to town, she knows Baden can't support two lodgings. Brigette has the skills to update the lodge, but the one thing she didn't factor in is the whole town playing matchmaker with the handsome Bryce, a dark-haired mystery who came back to his hometown to manage the hotel while facing his past and finding his future. Since the only thing Bridgette and Bryce have in common is that they can’t stand each other, hearts versus business clash in this delightful Christmas love story. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Sarah Jane Bookman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/229292/bk_acx0_229292_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Ancestral Vices , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 518min
When Lord Petrefact hires Walden Yapp, Professor of Demotic Historiography at Kloone University, to write a scurrilous family history Yapp finds plenty of material in Buscott village, where Frederick Petrefact is running the Mill and adding new vices to the family collection. If Yapp can lay his hands on the Petrefact Papers in the Buscott Museum he may be able to expose the multi-national capitalism of the Petrefacts to the whole world. Unfortunately when he takes lodgings with the Coppetts of Rabbitry Road and encounters the peculiar charm of Rosie, a woman of large body and little mind, he sets in motion a train of events which are to lead to his undoing. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Griff Rhys Jones. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/004859/bk_bbcw_004859_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Apologies to the Cat's Meat Man: A Novel of Annie Chapman, the Second Victim of Jack the Ripper: Jack the Ripper Victims Series , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 297min
This novel is part of the Jack the Ripper Victims Series. Each novel in the series is a stand-alone story. Annie Chapman led a hard, lower class life in filthy 19th century London. Late in life, circumstances and her choices led her to earn her crust by solicitation. After a bruising brawl with another woman over money and a man, she lost her lodgings and found herself sleeping rough. That dangerous turn of events delivered her into the hands of London's most notorious serial killer, Jack the Ripper. Contrasting her last week alive with the experiences of her earlier life, the author helps listeners understand how she might have made the decisions that put her in the wrong place at the wrong time. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Alicia Rose. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/090618/bk_acx0_090618_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Do Not Disturb: Hotel Sex Stories , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 383min, (USK 18)
No doubt about it: hotel rooms are hot. The minute you slip the key in the door, you want to strip off your clothes and dive naked between the sheets, whether there's a lover there to share in the indulgence or not. From luxe, five-star lodgings to seedy no-tell motels, hotels offer the chance to unwind, relax, and - if given the chance - become someone else altogether. This steamy collection takes readers behind those anonymous closed doors with sexy, scintillating tales of singles and couples frolicking and flaunting themselves for their own naughty purposes. Featuring work from Alison Tyler, Shane Allison, Donna George Storey, Shanna Germain, Saskia Walker, and others, the stories in Do Not Disturb offer the sense that anything can happen - and quite often it does. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Lucy Malone, Sean Crisden. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/002437/bk_acx0_002437_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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