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    The Notting Hill Mystery

    by Charles Warren Adams ...
    Narrated by Peter Wickham ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    5 hours 29 min

    Widely acknowledged as the first detective novel, this story is narrated by insurance investigator Ralph Henderson, who is building a case against the sinister Baron "R**", suspected of murdering his wife in order to obtain significant life insurance payments. Henderson descends into a maze of intrigue including a diabolical mesmerist, kidnapping by gypsies, slow-poisoners, a rich uncle's will and ... Read more

    $48.67 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    The Anatomy of Melancholy

    by Robert Burton ...
    Narrated by Peter Wickham ...

    Unabridged

    56 hours 49 min

    The Anatomy of Melancholy is one of the most remarkable books ever written. First published in 1621, and hardly ever out of print since, it is a huge, varied, idiosyncratic, entertaining and learned survey of the experience of melancholy, seen from just about every possible angle that could be imagined. Its subtitle explains much: The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With All the Kinds, Causes, ... Read more

    $46.10 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    Death of an Airman

    by Christopher St John Sprigg ...
    Narrated by Peter Wickham ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    7 hours 49 min

    George Furnace, flight instructor at Baston Aero Club, dies instantly when his plane crashes into the English countryside. People who knew him are baffled – Furnace was a first-rate pilot, and the plane was in perfect condition – and the inquest records a verdict of death by misadventure. An Australian visitor to the aero club, Edwin Marriott, Bishop of Cootamundra, suspects that the true story is ... Read more

    $56.30 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

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    Murder at the Fitzwilliam

    by Jim Eldridge ...
    Narrated by Peter Wickham ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Museum Mysteries

    Unabridged

    7 hours 38 min

    After rising to prominence for his role investigating the case of Jack the Ripper, former Detective Inspector Daniel Wilson is now retired. Known for his intelligence, investigative skills, and most of all his discretion, he's often consulted when a case must be solved quickly and quietly. So when a body is found in the Egyptian collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, Wilson is called ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    An Ill Wind

    by David Donachie ...
    Narrated by Peter Wickham ...
    Series Audiobook 6 - John Pearce

    Unabridged

    8 hours 27 min

    It is 1793. John Pearce and his Pelicans are going home - to gain their freedom and put the treacherous Captain Ralph Barclay in the dock. Emily Barclay discovers Pearce has papers that would ruin her husband's career and her future security. And then comes that dread thing, a fire aboard a wooden ship of war! Cast adrift, Pearce and his Pelicans find help from an unlikely source. Finally back on ... Read more

    $53.25 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Flag of Truce

    by David Donachie ...
    Narrated by Peter Wickham ...
    Series Audiobook 4 - John Pearce

    Unabridged

    10 hours 3 min

    Firebrand John Pearce has been promoted to lieutenant and is in a position of command on board HMS Faron when he returns to Toulon from his successful mission in Corsica. But although he returns with a prize in tow, he receives a mixed welcome from his colleagues. With the fierce Siege of Toulon escalating in violence and the massing forces of the revolutionary army preparing to attack, Pearce is ... Read more

    $57.83 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A Divided Command

    by David Donachie ...
    Narrated by Peter Wickham ...
    Series Audiobook 10 - John Pearce

    Unabridged

    8 hours 53 min

    Unbeknown to John Pearce, the private letter he is delivering on behalf of the prime minister carries the dismissal of the very man he is sailing to see. The need for a government majority to pursue the war with France means John Pearce must step down as Britain's best sailor, regretfully relinquishing the position to the incompetent Admiral Hotham. Hotham is equally less than pleased about John ... Read more

    $56.30 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Murder at the British Museum

    by Jim Eldridge ...
    Narrated by Peter Wickham ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Museum Mysteries

    Unabridged

    8 hours 28 min

    A well-respected academic is found dead in a gentlemen's convenience cubicle at the British Museum, the stall locked from the inside. Professor Lance Pickering had been due to give a talk promoting the museum's new "Age of King Arthur" exhibition when he was stabbed repeatedly in the chest. Having forged a strong reputation working alongside the inimitable Inspector Abberline on the Jack the ... Read more

    $56.30 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Murder at the Colosseum

    by Jim Eldridge ...
    Narrated by Peter Wickham ...
    Series series Museum Mysteries

    Unabridged

    7 hours 30 min

    In 1885, Abigail Wilson participated in an archaeological excavation at Rome's Colosseum. Fifteen years later, now a distinguished archaeologist and one half of the Museum Detectives with her husband, Daniel, she returns to Rome as a speaker at the Conference on Ancient Roman Civilization. Their visit takes a perilous turn when a fellow archaeologist and his wife are discovered murdered within the ... Read more

    $23.04 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    A Tale of a Tub

    by Jonathan Swift ...
    Narrated by Peter Wickham ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 41 min

    Swift’s allegorical satire about religion and politics follows the lives of three brothers, Martin, Peter and Jack, who each represent a faction of the Christian faith Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism and the Dissenting faiths respectively. Each brother inherits a coat (representing religious practice) from his father (God) on the condition that he does not change it. But instead, the three ... Read more

    $20.61 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Audiobook

    The Division Bell Mystery

    by Ellen Wilkinson ...
    Narrated by Peter Wickham, Anne Dover ...
    Series series British Library Crime Classics

    Unabridged

    7 hours 2 min

    Through the double clamour of Big Ben and the shrill sound of the bell rang a revolver shot. A financier is found shot in the House of Commons. Suspecting foul play, Robert West, a parliamentary private secretary, takes on the role of amateur sleuth. Used to turning a blind eye to covert dealings, West must now uncover the shocking secret behind the man's demise, amid distractions from the press ... Read more

    $51.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Consolation of Philosophy

    by Boethius ...
    Narrated by Peter Wickham ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 50 min

    Charged with treason under Theodoric the Great in sixth-century Rome, Boethius served one year’s imprisonment, awaiting trial and eventual execution. During this time, he wrote The Consolation of Philosophy, which would go on to be one of the most popular philosophical works of all time, contributing much to medieval thought and influencing the likes of Dante and Chaucer, as well as Renaissance ... Read more

    $20.61 CAD

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