
The Lilies in the Graveyard
It begins, as so many unpleasant things do, with flowers. On a grey, dripping Tuesday morning, an elderly village lady is arranging…
1 hr 9 minNo. 115
St Mary Mead and villages like it — flower shows, church fêtes and very long memories. An elderly lady who has seen this exact wickedness before.
8 stories · every one free to listen to

It begins, as so many unpleasant things do, with flowers. On a grey, dripping Tuesday morning, an elderly village lady is arranging…
1 hr 9 minNo. 115

On a pale March afternoon in an English village, a pretty young wife arrives at a country house in quiet distress, convinced her jealous…
1 hr 16 minNo. 58

Scotland: after a bitter solicitor dies, his heir inherits not peace but a paper-obsessed legacy—anonymous block-capital threats, a…
1 hr 12 minNo. 55

When an old friend summons a village sleuth to Bertram’s Hotel over an anonymous letter tied to a vanished aristocrat scandal, a…
1 hr 9 minNo. 41

In quiet St. Mary Mead, a flawlessly polite new family settles into village life just as a major London bullion raid shocks the country…
1 hr 18 minNo. 38

Briarwood looks like an ordinary country house—added to in stages, slightly awkward, full of “character.” But the house…
1 hr 16 minNo. 21

Christmas Eve at Rutherford Hall should have meant candlelight, wreaths, and goodwill. Instead, it brings anonymous threats…
54 minNo. 11

A missing baby. A ladder at the nursery window. A ransom note demanding £10,000. And one very sharp old lady who sees what…
1 hr 5 minNo. 3