The legal case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce has become a joke to some people. People are born, marry and die, and still the case continues. But will the l ...

At the Jolly Roger Hotel the guests appear to be relaxing in the sun. But when a beautiful woman is killed, there are many possible suspects. What can ...

Leaving his home in a Welsh mining village for the last time, Huw Morgan remembers his childhood. The valley was green then, unspoilt by waste from th ...

Known world-wide as the painter of the Mona Lisa, for designs of flying machines and for his studies of the human body. He brought his scientific and ...

Everybody, it seems, is looking for the statue of a bird, and some of them are dying. Who has the bird? Who knows where it is? Who is telling the trut ...

Hercule Poirot has received a letter which is simply signed ?ABC?. The writer promises a mystery that is too difficult even for the great mind of the ...

Contemporary / British English Gaz and five others decide to form a strippers' group. none of the men have stripped before. Gaz must make sure the loc ...

John Steinbeck wrote some of the best and most famous American stories ever. Jody Tiflin is often alone and he knows little of the world. But one day ...

Kerry is visiting her brother, Mike, for the first time in his new home. She sees a sign for a fortune teller. Mike doesn?t believe in fortune tellers ...

Danuta, Pablo and Ling are not happy. They live on Mars and there are no visitors to their planet. Why not? Mars isn't boring! What can they do? Ling ...

Young Mico is a slave in a big house in Pompeii. His only friend is the house dog, Fortunatus. One quiet summer day, Fortunatus suddenly runs away. He ...

Per and Nina are on holiday in the country. They find a strange Viking cup in a dark forest. The cup is very old and interesting. But now there is a s ...