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    Entirely Surrounded , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 286min
    It is 1934. Red-headed Henry Cook, fresh out of Amherst and excited about working on his first book at an infamous writers' colony, arrives at the Vermont island retreat at the invitation of its owner, Thaddeus Hulbert, a boisterous, bellowing, bloviated curmudgeon, whose reputation as a novelist, columnist, and radio commentator has vaulted him to national prominence. Additional island guests include Clarence Fitch, the editor of a prominent New York magazine; Agnes Sterner, an elegant, mature woman, also an author and close friend of Hulbert's; Daisy Lester, a nationally-known nightclub singer also known by Hulbert and friends to be a heavy drinker if not watched carefully; and Leith O'Fallon, an artist, writer, and liberal cause protester for whom Henry falls hard. Among the supporting characters are Mr. Veitch, the slow-drawling Vermonter who navigates the mail boat to and from the island, and Jenny, the shrieking housekeeper and cook who tends - genially if not loudly - to the needs of Hulbert's guests. Entirely Surrounded is a slightly venomous roman à clef poking satirically at the habits of several of the Algonquin Round Table notables: Alexander Woollcott (Hulbert), Alice Duer Miller (Sterner), Dorothy Parker (Lester), Harold Ross of the New Yorker (Fitch), and Neysa McMein, popular magazine cover illustrator (O'Fallon). The novel's author and narrator, Charles Brackett (Cook), had been a regular at the Algonquin for several years before leaving for Hollywood at the peak of the group's notoriety. Through Entirely Surrounded, Brackett deconstructs the Round Table's core elite and re-assembles them on their lake encircled hideaway to endure each other's company, play croquet, backgammon, cribbage, and anagrams, all under the withering snide and cutting bombasts of their host, Hulbert. The story's narrator, Henry Cook, is the mean gang's naïve foil, surrounded as he is by the idols of his literary dreams, vip ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: C. James Moore. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/001653/bk_mike_001653_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Doctor Who - Human Resources Part 2 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 66min
    Business as usual? Not at Hulbert Logistics, where staff are facing a menace far worse than the prospect of the office Christmas party. Lucie’s made some new friends and the Doctor’s met some old enemies. But just who will become the Headhunter’s new apprentice? Welcome to the job interview from hell. Note: This adventure continues from Doctor Who: Human Resources Part 1 Written By: Eddie Robson and directed by: Nicholas Briggs. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Paul McGann, Sheridan Smith, Roy Marsden, Nicholas Briggs, Nickolas Grace. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bgfn/000180/bk_bgfn_000180_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    I'd Kill for You , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 687min
    After her mother's untimely death, Clara Schwartz became distant, withdrawn. Her father, a renowned DNA researcher, lived in a farmhouse outside Leesburg, Virginia, where in December 2001 he was fatally stabbed by what seemed to be a ninja-style sword. Police arrested Kyle Hulbert, a troubled teen - and aspiring vampire. Kyle was Clara's friend, one of a circle obsessed with role-playing games. Drawing on exclusive interviews with the killer, best-selling author M. William Phelps reveals a frightening subculture, the tragic collision of two young people's dark worlds, and its deadly consequences. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stephen Bowlby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/021687/bk_adbl_021687_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Doctor Who - Human Resources Part 1, Hörbuch, Digital, 60min
    Lucie Miller's been headhunted to join the staff of Hulbert Logistics, a respectable blue-chip firm in Telford. Great prospects, competitive salary - you don't have to be mad to work here! But wasn't she made for better things, like travelling by TARDIS through time and space? The Doctor, meanwhile, has been fired - into a confrontation with the most terrifying of enemies.... The adventure continues in Doctor Who - Human Resources Part 2. Written by Eddie Robson and directed by Nicholas Briggs. Language: English. Narrator: Paul McGann, Sheridan Smith, Roy Marsden, Nickolas Grace, Nicholas Briggs. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bgfn/000177/bk_bgfn_000177_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Murder at Fernhurst , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 49min
    Hulbert Footner (1879-1944) was a popular Canadian writer of detective fiction. "The Murder at Fernhurst" features Footner's first great sleuth, Madame Rosika Storey. The famous female detective is called in to investigate what seems like an open-and-shut case. A rich industrialist has been found shot...and all the evidence points to the murder having been committed by his vastly wealthy young ward. By what could have been her motive? Madame Storey sets off to the scene of the crime...and finds that all is not as it first seemed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Cathy Dobson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/redd/000591/bk_redd_000591_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Self-Made Thief (eBook, ePUB)
    "It's a cinch to stick up a bank nowadays...!" boasted Frank Heberdon, socially prominent young lawyer. Goaded by his friends into making the attempt he just escapes capture due to the help of a beautiful and mysterious girl. A strange and inescapable force lures Frank on to this life of crime, and he finds his lovely rescuer in a denizen of the underworld where they join forces. The development of Frank's criminal career and the way he goes from theft and blackmail to drugs and finally murder makes as thrilling and absorbing a tale as Hulbert Footner ever wrote-with a smashing surprise at the very end. Includes an introduction by Karl Wurf.
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    Guy Burgess: The Spy Who Knew Everyone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1084min
    Cambridge spy Guy Burgess was a supreme networker. He also set a gold standard for conflicts of interest, working variously for the BBC, MI5, MI6, the War Office, the Ministry of Information and the KGB. Yet Burgess was never challenged by Britain's spy catchers: his superiors were convinced he was too much of a liability to have been recruited by Moscow. Now, with a major new release of hundreds of files into the National Archives, Purvis and Hulbert reveal just how this charming establishment insider was able to fool everyone for so long, without suspicion, all the while working for the KGB. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Andrew Cullum. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/oakh/000708/bk_oakh_000708_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Black Cat Weekly #30 (eBook, ePUB)
    Black Cat Weekly #30 is a fabulous issue. This time, Darrell Schweitzer has unearthed his 1980 interview with Tom Disch, which is fascinating. Disch talks about writing his classic fantasy novel, The Businessman, among other things. As Darrell always notes, these old interviews fall "somewhere between oral history and paleontology." Lots of mysteries this time, too-including an originals by Elizabeth Elwood (thanks to editor Michael Bracken) and Jack Halliday (a flash fiction portrait of a serial killer). Barb Goffman has selected "Take the Hit," by Nikki Dolson. And we have a short story by James Holding and a classic novel by Hulbert Footner. And no issue is complete without a solve-it-yourself mystery from Hal Charles (the writing team of Hal Sweet and Charlie Blythe). On the fantastic side of things, Cynthia Ward has selected a great science fiction tale by Matthew Hughes. I've seen his name for years, but never managed to read anything of his until now-but I'm definitely sold. I'm going to have to check out more of his work. Great stuff. Plus we have stories by Larry Tritten, Richard Wilson, and a vintage ghost story-or is it?-by one of my favorite authors, Anonymous! Here's the complete lineup: Non-Fiction: "Speaking with Thomas M. Disch," conducted by Darrell Schweitzer [interview] Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: "One for the Road," by James Holding "MeToo Too," by Elizabeth Elwood [Michael Bracken Presents short story] "Take the Hit," by Nikki Dolson. [Barb Goffman Presents short story] "A Touch of Magic," by Hal Charles [solve-it-yourself mystery] A Self-Made Thief, by Hulbert Footner [novel] Science Fiction & Fantasy: "An Odd Ghost Story," by Anonymous [short story] "To Tell the Phoenecians," by Matthew Hughes [Cynthia Ward Presents short story] "Turning Off," by Larry Tritten [short story] "If a Man Answers," by Richard Wilson [short story]
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    Serienkiller im Spätherbst: 10 Krimis im Paket (eBook, ePUB)
    Dieser Band enthält folgende Krimis: Alte Freundin braucht Hilfe (Horst Bieber) Kubinke und der kommende Tod (Alfred Bekker) Die mörderischen Zwillinge (Cedric Balmore) Jesse und das Schlitzohr (Cedric Balmore) Überrrollt (Uwe Erichsen) Der Zeuge, den ich töten wollte (Cedric Balmore) Spur in den Abgrund (Theodor Horschelt) Das Rätsel der silbernen Spinne (Cedric Balmore) Bount Reiniger und der Psychopath (Franc Helgath) Drei Tage bis zur Katastrophe (A.F.Morland) Elga, die charmante, junge Frau Colonel Ashburtons, die erst vor wenigen Jahren aus Ungarn nach England geflüchtet war, verschwindet spurlos. Inspector Taggart und sein Adlatus Sergeant Hulbert vom C.I.D., Scotland Yard, wittern schon bei Aufnahme der Ermittlungen, welche Ausmaße der Fall haben würde - und sie sollen recht behalten. Die Tatsache, dass der Colonel leitender Beamter im Kriegsministerium ist, deutet auf eine mögliche Entführung Mrs. Ashburtons, auch Spionage ist nicht auszuschließen, deshalb wird Major Playford von der Abwehr hinzugezogen. Elgas Verschwinden setzt eine Lawine in Gang: Alte, ungeklärte Fälle erscheinen in neuem Licht und Leute tauchen wieder auf, die schon seit Jahren tot sind - und am Ende kommt alles anders ...
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    Peter of New Amsterdam: A Story of Old New York , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 181min
    Bring history back to life through Jim Hodges' historically accurate, exciting, and edifying audio recordings. Twelve-year-old Peter Hulbert is left an orphan in Leyden, Holland, as the rest of the Pilgrims sail for the New World. A merchant of the West India Company takes him to New Amsterdam as his servant. Here Peter's adventures begin in this historically accurate tale of life in old New York. The purpose of this story is to show children the home life of the colonists they meet in their history books. So that the stories may appeal more directly to the children, they are told from the viewpoint of a child and purport to have been related by a child. It is entertaining as well as instructive for young people to hear of the toil and privations in the homes of those who came into a new world to build a country for themselves, and such facts are not to be found in history books. Written in the 1800s, the Young Listeners Collection features children's stories from yesterday's classics. Learn from our nation's founders whose Christian faith was lived out in the lives of the characters in these stories. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Hodges. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/010815/bk_blak_010815_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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