Mystery novelist Paisley Sterling is happier than she ever dreamed. As successful writer she is free to return to her mother's farm in Kentucky where she trades in her panty hose and high-heeled shoes for jeans and loafers. Her only problem is the pen name of "Leonard Paisley" that her agent encourages her to assume because "a detective novel will sell better if it's written by a man." Unfortunately Paisley finds out that every paradise has its snake when her beautiful daughter, Cassie fal...

Mystery novelist Paisley Sterling takes time off to enjoy the holidays only to be interrupted by her agent. Seems like Leonard Paisley, the fictitious detective who is supposed to be writing her mystery novels, is required to make a personal appearance. Paisley would love to tell the world that "Leonard" is a fake and she does all the hard work, but her agent insists they keep up with the sham until her career is assured. "Leonard" has to be found. Paisley seeks the advice of her proper so...

Paisley Sterling has no idea of the trouble she's getting into when she and her teenaged daughter are called home for a family funeral. Paisley's mother, the elegant and stylish Anna Howard Sterling is delighted when they decide to extend their visit after Paisley's New York townhouse is rented out from under her. Things are going well until Anna discovers she has been cheated out of a sizable inheritance. Convinced that her favorite cousin was murdered, she decides to seek revenge by pers...

Like any successful writer, Paisley had the help of generous friends and colleagues on the way up. Now, insists her mother, it's her turn to come to the aid of a fledgling novelist. But how can reading a manuscript open the book to murder, involving Paisley in a plot to blackmail some of the leading citizens of her beloved Rowan Springs? Solving this crime brings danger very close to home--and someone Paisley holds dear may not survive!

Life's a picnic for Paisley Sterling -- until a tornado cuts a swath through the charming little town of Rowan Springs, Kentucky, and the home she shares with her mother and daughter on Meadowdale Farm. Paisley struggles to restore order to her life, but fate intervenes, and before long she finds herself caught up in an international mystery of truly evil proportions...involving kidnapping, murder, and baby trafficking!

Author turned amateur sleuth Paisley Sterling returns in a new mystery! When Paisley overhears two busybody gossips talking at the gym, little does she realize it's the beginning of a new mystery..."Do you really think he murdered her?""I tell you, Crystal, she'd never been sick a day in her life! The woman was a walking, talking, medical miracle. Winston used to say if everyone in Rowan Springs were as healthy as Millicent Grazziani, he would have to hang his shingle out s...

A collection of thrilling tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, including six full-cast dramas and a short story read by Benedict CumberbatchIn the first half of the 20th century, the detective story exploded in popularity. Innovative authors penned whodunits, whydunits and clue-puzzle stories, and introduced iconic sleuths, creating works that would later become classics. This Golden Age, which reached its height during the 1920s and ’30s, saw the crowni...

A collection of thrilling tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, including six full-cast dramas and a short story read by Benedict CumberbatchIn the first half of the 20th century, the detective story exploded in popularity. Innovative authors penned whodunits, whydunits and clue-puzzle stories, and introduced iconic sleuths, creating works that would later become classics. This Golden Age, which reached its height during the 1920s and ’30s, saw the crowni...

The complete series of the fast-moving 1960s sketch showA leading light of British stage and screen from the 1950s onwards, Ian Carmichael made a career out of playing the amiable, bumbling nincompoop in films such as Private's Progress and I'm All Right Jack, and TV shows including Bachelor Father and The World of Wooster. This dithering persona was expanded and amplified in his first radio comedy, Play It Cool....

A sensory smash as an all-star cast delight in this unique six-part comedy dramaA stellar line up of stars, including Celia Imrie (The Crown), Joan Sims (Carry On), Alex Jennings (The Lady in the Van), Geoffrey Palmer (As Time Goes By)and Lynda Bellingham (Loose Women), play a cast of moving and memorable characters in t...

All 18 episodes of the BBC radio series based on J. B. Morton's surreally comic 'Beachcomber' column'As schoolboys, my brother and I worshipped Beachcomber... and that led to the birth of The Goon Show*'* Spike MilliganJ.B. Morton took over the 'By The Way' column in the Daily Express in 1924 - succeeding his friend D.B. Wyndham-Lewis as Beachcomber - and continued writing it for over 50 years. Anarchic, absurdist...

Dramatisations and readings of Sheridan Le Fanu's best-known Gothic masterpiecesOne of the leading ghost story writers of the Victorian era, Sheridan Le Fanu is renowned for his chilling tales of mystery and horror. His pioneering lesbian vampire novella Carmilla was a major influence on Bram Stoker's Dracula, and spawned numerous film adaptations including Hammer Horror's Karnstein Trilogy.Opening this anthology is a dramatisation of that...