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ポアロは巨額の財産をもつ老婦人から命の危険を訴える手紙を受け取った。が、それは一介の付き添い婦に財産を残すという問題のある遺言状を残して彼女が死んだ二カ月後のことだった。

この人を好きになってよかった――140字で綴られる、出会いと別れ、そして再会。（以下、本文『別れの挨拶』引用）「またね」それが彼とお決まりの挨拶だった。また次の機会にね、そんな意味を込めて。

Here in one recording is every Sherlock Holmes story ever written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle....

From L.A. to rural Ireland, from war-torn Beirut to a windswept Scottish coastline, from the bright lights of the theatre to the dimness of the therapist’s office - these six outstanding and impactful stories seek to explore grief and trauma, new beginnings and hope....

This year's shortlist of six exceptional stories each take the listener on an intense and gripping journey into the human heart. With poise, precision, and a light-footed grace, they conjure dramatically different, starkly real worlds....

O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings....

With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive at a cultural divide....

The six stories in Haruki Murakami’s mesmerizing collection are set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, when Japan became brutally aware of its existential fragility....

O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings....

The 24 stories that make up Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman generously express the incomparable Haruki Murakami’s mastery of the form....

Bringing together tales of melancholy and madness, nightmare and fantasy, this is a new collection of the most haunting German stories from the past 200 years....

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits - an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies - who one day take up residence in a tree house....

An aspiring writer moves into a new apartment and discovers that her landlady has murdered her husband....

As the days grow shorter and the temperature drops, Halloween approaches. Come, brave listener, pull up a chair, and spend some time with master storyteller Stephen Fry as he tells us some of his favourite ghost stories of all time, in truly terrifying spatial audio....

Thirteen bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors are contained in this first of volume of a must-listen collection....

The collection begins with "The Ghost of Hooker Alley," which introduces listeners to 10-year-old Sarah and six-year-old Tommy. After a bus ride into town to buy a gun, Sarah and Tommy think their problems are all but solved. That is, until a creepy weirdo follows them into an alley....

An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool....

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction.

The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls....

Eighteen of the very best American short stories, each a classic in its own right....