Country Estate Books | Summaries & Audio

The Hollow

by Agatha Christie • 1946

When a doctor is shot by the pool, his wife holds the gun and Poirot holds his doubts.

3.80

45k+

🏠 Country House Mystery 🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🤫 Collective Cover-Up

The Hollow 88%

When a doctor is shot by the pool, his wife holds the gun and Poirot holds his doubts.

by Agatha Christie 1946

3.80

45k+ ratings

🏠 Country House Mystery 🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🤫 Collective Cover-Up

They Do It With Mirrors

by Agatha Christie • 1952

A friend's unease pulls Miss Marple to a crumbling manor, where a staged outburst masks a murder.

3.78

47k+

🏠 Country House Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🕰️ Golden Age Mystery

They Do It With Mirrors 88%

A friend's unease pulls Miss Marple to a crumbling manor, where a staged outburst masks a murder.

by Agatha Christie 1952

3.78

47k+ ratings

🏠 Country House Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 🕰️ Golden Age Mystery

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

by Agatha Christie • 1920

A wealthy matriarch is poisoned in her locked bedroom, and a Belgian detective finds only motives.

4.00

516k+

🔍 Golden Age Mystery 🏡 Country House Murder 🔒 Locked Room Puzzle

The Mysterious Affair at Styles 88%

A wealthy matriarch is poisoned in her locked bedroom, and a Belgian detective finds only motives.

by Agatha Christie 1920

4.00

516k+ ratings

🔍 Golden Age Mystery 🏡 Country House Murder 🔒 Locked Room Puzzle

by Agatha Christie • 1957

From a passing train, a friend sees murder. No corpse appears. Miss Marple must prove it.

3.97

78k+

🏠 Country House Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 💰 Inheritance Plot

4 88%

From a passing train, a friend sees murder. No corpse appears. Miss Marple must prove it.

by Agatha Christie 1957

3.97

78k+ ratings

🏠 Country House Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth 💰 Inheritance Plot

Death at the Sign of the Rook

by Kate Atkinson • 2024

A stolen painting leads to a snowbound manor where a murder mystery weekend is no game.

3.71

26k+

🏠 Country House Mystery 🖼️ Art Heist 👑 Aristocratic Decay

Death at the Sign of the Rook 88%

A stolen painting leads to a snowbound manor where a murder mystery weekend is no game.

by Kate Atkinson 2024

3.71

26k+ ratings

🏠 Country House Mystery 🖼️ Art Heist 👑 Aristocratic Decay

A Rule Against Murder

by Louise Penny • 2008

A remote lodge, a storm, a killer statue: Chief Inspector Gamache investigates a family's secrets.

4.21

110k+

🏚️ Country House Mystery ✍️ Literary Mystery 👪 Family Reunion Murder

A Rule Against Murder 87%

A remote lodge, a storm, a killer statue: Chief Inspector Gamache investigates a family's secrets.

by Louise Penny 2008

4.21

110k+ ratings

🏚️ Country House Mystery ✍️ Literary Mystery 👪 Family Reunion Murder

The Murder at Redmire Hall

by J.R. Ellis • 2018

A lord performs a locked-room vanishing act on television and reappears stabbed in the back.

4.28

15k+

🗝️ Locked Room Mystery 🏰 Country House Murder 🔍 Classic Whodunit

The Murder at Redmire Hall 87%

A lord performs a locked-room vanishing act on television and reappears stabbed in the back.

by J.R. Ellis 2018

4.28

15k+ ratings

🗝️ Locked Room Mystery 🏰 Country House Murder 🔍 Classic Whodunit

Dumb Witness

by Agatha Christie • 1937

A matriarch's fatal fall and a long-lost letter send Poirot hunting a killer among her heirs.

3.92

50k+

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏠 Country House Mystery 📜 Contested Will

Dumb Witness 87%

A matriarch's fatal fall and a long-lost letter send Poirot hunting a killer among her heirs.

by Agatha Christie 1937

3.92

50k+ ratings

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏠 Country House Mystery 📜 Contested Will

Who Owns England?

by Guy Shrubsole • 2019

The secret 1% who own half of England: unmasking the aristocrats, royals, and oligarchs.

4.21

1k+

🏠 Land Ownership 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Land ✊ Land Reform

Who Owns England? 87%

The secret 1% who own half of England: unmasking the aristocrats, royals, and oligarchs.

by Guy Shrubsole 2019

4.21

1k+ ratings

🏠 Land Ownership 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 English Land ✊ Land Reform

Murder at Holly House

by Denzil Meyrick • 2023

A hapless detective banished to a snowbound village unearths a chimney corpse and a coup.

3.20

11k+

🏘️ Village Mystery 🏰 Country House Mystery 🕵️ Bumbling Detective

Murder at Holly House 87%

A hapless detective banished to a snowbound village unearths a chimney corpse and a coup.

by Denzil Meyrick 2023

3.20

11k+ ratings

🏘️ Village Mystery 🏰 Country House Mystery 🕵️ Bumbling Detective

Dead Man's Folly

by Agatha Christie • 1956

During a country house fête, a staged murder game gives cover to a real killer.

3.82

39k+

🏡 Country House Mystery 🔍 Golden Age Detective 🎪 Deadly Party Game

Dead Man's Folly 87%

During a country house fête, a staged murder game gives cover to a real killer.

by Agatha Christie 1956

3.82

39k+ ratings

🏡 Country House Mystery 🔍 Golden Age Detective 🎪 Deadly Party Game

A Pocket Full of Rye

by Agatha Christie • 1953

Rye in a dead man's pocket: a killer at a country house follows a nursery rhyme.

3.94

55k+

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏰 Country House Mystery 🐦 Nursery Rhyme Murders

A Pocket Full of Rye 87%

Rye in a dead man's pocket: a killer at a country house follows a nursery rhyme.

by Agatha Christie 1953

3.94

55k+ ratings

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏰 Country House Mystery 🐦 Nursery Rhyme Murders

Curtain

by Agatha Christie • 1975

Poirot, dying at Styles, hunts a killer who has never wielded a weapon: only words.

4.10

51k+

🏠 Country House Mystery 🔒 Locked Room Puzzle 🎭 Master Manipulator

Curtain 87%

Poirot, dying at Styles, hunts a killer who has never wielded a weapon: only words.

by Agatha Christie 1975

4.10

51k+ ratings

🏠 Country House Mystery 🔒 Locked Room Puzzle 🎭 Master Manipulator

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

by Agatha Christie • 1926

A locked study, a murdered gentleman, a vanished stepson. Hercule Poirot's retirement can wait.

4.26

353k+

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🔒 Locked Room Mystery 🏠 Country House Mystery

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd 87%

A locked study, a murdered gentleman, a vanished stepson. Hercule Poirot's retirement can wait.

by Agatha Christie 1926

4.26

353k+ ratings

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🔒 Locked Room Mystery 🏠 Country House Mystery

The Mysterious Mr. Quin

by Agatha Christie • 1930

At country house parties, a quiet gentleman and a spectral stranger reconstruct buried crimes.

3.74

18k+

👀 Armchair Detective 🏠 Country House Mystery 📚 Golden Age Mystery

The Mysterious Mr. Quin 87%

At country house parties, a quiet gentleman and a spectral stranger reconstruct buried crimes.

by Agatha Christie 1930

3.74

18k+ ratings

👀 Armchair Detective 🏠 Country House Mystery 📚 Golden Age Mystery

Christmas at The Grange

by T.E. Kinsey • 2017

A country house Christmas turns odd when a theft leaves clues so abundant they feel like a prank.

4.15

9k+

🏰 Country House Mystery 🕵️ Lady Detective 💝 Found Family

Christmas at The Grange 87%

A country house Christmas turns odd when a theft leaves clues so abundant they feel like a prank.

by T.E. Kinsey 2017

4.15

9k+ ratings

🏰 Country House Mystery 🕵️ Lady Detective 💝 Found Family

A Man of Some Repute

by Elizabeth Edmondson • 2015

A wounded spy moves to a crumbling castle just as the vanished Earl is unearthed.

3.77

12k+

🏰 Country House Murder ❄️ Cold Case Investigation 🇬🇧 Postwar England

A Man of Some Repute 87%

A wounded spy moves to a crumbling castle just as the vanished Earl is unearthed.

by Elizabeth Edmondson 2015

3.77

12k+ ratings

🏰 Country House Murder ❄️ Cold Case Investigation 🇬🇧 Postwar England

A Handful of Dust

by Evelyn Waugh • 1934

His wife's betrayal sends a country squire into the Amazon, where rescue becomes a life sentence.

3.88

29k+

🎭 Satire Of Manners 🏰 English Country House 🪜 Social Climbing

A Handful of Dust 87%

His wife's betrayal sends a country squire into the Amazon, where rescue becomes a life sentence.

by Evelyn Waugh 1934

3.88

29k+ ratings

🎭 Satire Of Manners 🏰 English Country House 🪜 Social Climbing

After the Funeral

by Agatha Christie • 1953

A relative cries murder at a funeral, then turns up dead. Poirot steps in.

3.92

51k+

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🏠 English Country House 💰 Inheritance Drama

After the Funeral 87%

A relative cries murder at a funeral, then turns up dead. Poirot steps in.

by Agatha Christie 1953

3.92

51k+ ratings

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🏠 English Country House 💰 Inheritance Drama

Cluny Brown

by Margery Sharp • 1944

Sent to a country house, a plumber's niece charms a Polish exile and scandalizes the household.

3.75

3k+

🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🏰 Country House Novel 💞 Misfits In Love

Cluny Brown 87%

Sent to a country house, a plumber's niece charms a Polish exile and scandalizes the household.

by Margery Sharp 1944

3.75

3k+ ratings

🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🏰 Country House Novel 💞 Misfits In Love

Five Little Pigs

by Agatha Christie • 1942

A woman asks Poirot to prove her mother innocent of murder, sixteen years after the execution.

4.03

96k+

🕰️ Cold Case Mystery 🧠 Psychological Mystery 🏡 Country House Mystery

Five Little Pigs 87%

A woman asks Poirot to prove her mother innocent of murder, sixteen years after the execution.

by Agatha Christie 1942

4.03

96k+ ratings

🕰️ Cold Case Mystery 🧠 Psychological Mystery 🏡 Country House Mystery

The Sittaford Mystery

by Agatha Christie • 1931

A snowbound séance predicts murder. The suspect's fiancée knows the police have the wrong man.

3.77

32k+

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏠 Country House Mystery 🔍 Amateur Detective

The Sittaford Mystery 87%

A snowbound séance predicts murder. The suspect's fiancée knows the police have the wrong man.

by Agatha Christie 1931

3.77

32k+ ratings

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏠 Country House Mystery 🔍 Amateur Detective

All of Us Murderers

by K.J. Charles • 2025

Trapped in a Dartmoor mansion: his ex-lover, a bride contest, and no way out.

3.70

10k+

🏚️ Country House Murder 💔 Second Chance Romance 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Historical

All of Us Murderers 87%

Trapped in a Dartmoor mansion: his ex-lover, a bride contest, and no way out.

by K.J. Charles 2025

3.70

10k+ ratings

🏚️ Country House Murder 💔 Second Chance Romance 🏳️‍🌈 Queer Historical

Sleeping Murder

by Agatha Christie • 1976

A newlywed's perfect house awakens a buried memory: she witnessed a murder there as a child.

4.00

54k+

🏘️ Village Mystery 🔍 Cold Case 🧠 Buried Memories

Sleeping Murder 87%

A newlywed's perfect house awakens a buried memory: she witnessed a murder there as a child.

by Agatha Christie 1976

4.00

54k+ ratings

🏘️ Village Mystery 🔍 Cold Case 🧠 Buried Memories

What a Carve Up!

by Jonathan Coe • 1994

A lonely biographer uncovers how one family's greed poisoned Britain, then the murders start.

4.11

13k+

🎭 Political Satire 🏚️ Country House Mystery 😈 Family Of Villains

What a Carve Up! 87%

A lonely biographer uncovers how one family's greed poisoned Britain, then the murders start.

by Jonathan Coe 1994

4.11

13k+ ratings

🎭 Political Satire 🏚️ Country House Mystery 😈 Family Of Villains

How to Think Seriously About the Planet

by Roger Scruton • 2011

Why local loyalty, beauty, and tradition matter more for the planet than any global climate treaty.

3.87

446

🏛️ Conservatism 🌱 Stewardship 🏘️ Localism

How to Think Seriously About the Planet Summary

How to Think Seriously About the Planet 87%

Why local loyalty, beauty, and tradition matter more for the planet than any global climate treaty.

by Roger Scruton 2011

3.87

446 ratings

🏛️ Conservatism 🌱 Stewardship 🏘️ Localism

I Capture the Castle

by Dodie Smith • 1948

Seventeen-year-old Cassandra's journal of castle life is upended when two wealthy brothers arrive.

3.98

116k+

📝 Diary Fiction 🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🏚️ Impoverished Gentry

I Capture the Castle 87%

Seventeen-year-old Cassandra's journal of castle life is upended when two wealthy brothers arrive.

by Dodie Smith 1948

3.98

116k+ ratings

📝 Diary Fiction 🎭 Comedy Of Manners 🏚️ Impoverished Gentry

The Minotaur

by Barbara Vine • 2005

At a decaying manor, a Swedish nurse cares for a hidden man. The house hides a killer.

3.65

3k+

🏚️ Gothic Manor 🤫 Family Secrets 🧠 Psychological Suspense

The Minotaur 87%

At a decaying manor, a Swedish nurse cares for a hidden man. The house hides a killer.

by Barbara Vine 2005

3.65

3k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Manor 🤫 Family Secrets 🧠 Psychological Suspense

Hercule Poirot's Christmas

by Agatha Christie • 1938

An old tyrant gathers his bitter heirs for Christmas, then turns up murdered inside a locked room.

3.98

110k+

🚪 Locked Room Mystery 🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 💔 Dysfunctional Family

Hercule Poirot's Christmas 87%

An old tyrant gathers his bitter heirs for Christmas, then turns up murdered inside a locked room.

by Agatha Christie 1938

3.98

110k+ ratings

🚪 Locked Room Mystery 🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 💔 Dysfunctional Family

A Month in the Country

by J.L. Carr • 1980

In a Yorkshire village, a war-scarred restorer unearths a medieval painting and a summer of healing.

4.07

30k+

🌾 Pastoral Elegy 🎖️ Shell-Shocked Veteran 💬 Unspoken Love

A Month in the Country 87%

In a Yorkshire village, a war-scarred restorer unearths a medieval painting and a summer of healing.

by J.L. Carr 1980

4.07

30k+ ratings

🌾 Pastoral Elegy 🎖️ Shell-Shocked Veteran 💬 Unspoken Love

The Seven Dials Mystery

by Agatha Christie • 1929

A prank, a death, a missing clock. A socialite steps into a masked society's deadly conspiracy.

3.78

44k+

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏰 Country House Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth

The Seven Dials Mystery 87%

A prank, a death, a missing clock. A socialite steps into a masked society's deadly conspiracy.

by Agatha Christie 1929

3.78

44k+ ratings

🕰️ Golden Age Mystery 🏰 Country House Mystery 🔍 Amateur Sleuth

A Secret Garden Affair

by Erica James • 2023

Betrayed, Libby escapes to a Suffolk manor where garden plans expose her family's hidden secrets.

4.21

4k+

⏳ Dual Timeline 🔒 Family Secrets 🏡 Found Family

A Secret Garden Affair 87%

Betrayed, Libby escapes to a Suffolk manor where garden plans expose her family's hidden secrets.

by Erica James 2023

4.21

4k+ ratings

⏳ Dual Timeline 🔒 Family Secrets 🏡 Found Family

Death Around the Bend

by T.E. Kinsey • 2017

A widow and her maid, at a country motor race, find a driver's crash was murder.

4.28

13k+

🏰 Country House Mystery 🕰️ Edwardian England 🔍 Lady Detective

Death Around the Bend 87%

A widow and her maid, at a country motor race, find a driver's crash was murder.

by T.E. Kinsey 2017

4.28

13k+ ratings

🏰 Country House Mystery 🕰️ Edwardian England 🔍 Lady Detective

The Unsettling of America

by Wendell Berry • 1977

America's farming crisis is really a crisis of character. The soil tells the story.

4.33

7k+

🧑‍🌾 Agrarian Philosophy 🌍 Land Ethics 🚜 Farming Criticism

The Unsettling of America 87%

America's farming crisis is really a crisis of character. The soil tells the story.

by Wendell Berry 1977

4.33

7k+ ratings

🧑‍🌾 Agrarian Philosophy 🌍 Land Ethics 🚜 Farming Criticism

Mariana

by Monica Dickens • 1940

Through a storm, Mary Shannon waits for her husband's ship and relives a lifetime of love.

3.90

3k+

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Interwar Britain 🌅 Bittersweet Nostalgia 🌿 English Countryside

Mariana 86%

Through a storm, Mary Shannon waits for her husband's ship and relives a lifetime of love.

by Monica Dickens 1940

3.90

3k+ ratings

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Interwar Britain 🌅 Bittersweet Nostalgia 🌿 English Countryside

The Lies of the Land

by Steven Conn • 2023

Farmers and crisis don't define rural America. Military bases, chains, and suburbia do.

3.98

148

🌾 Rural America 📜 Agrarian Myths ⏳ Nostalgia Politics

The Lies of the Land 86%

Farmers and crisis don't define rural America. Military bases, chains, and suburbia do.

by Steven Conn 2023

3.98

148 ratings

🌾 Rural America 📜 Agrarian Myths ⏳ Nostalgia Politics

The Little Stranger

by Sarah Waters • 2009

A country doctor called to a decaying manor finds the house destroying the family from within.

3.57

60k+

🏚️ Haunted House 🌀 Unreliable Narrator ⚔️ Class Anxiety

The Little Stranger 86%

A country doctor called to a decaying manor finds the house destroying the family from within.

by Sarah Waters 2009

3.57

60k+ ratings

🏚️ Haunted House 🌀 Unreliable Narrator ⚔️ Class Anxiety

I Died at Fallow Hall

by Bonnie Burke-Patel • 2024

Bones found beneath the roses force an English village to unearth a murder buried for decades.

3.72

725

🏚️ Gothic Mystery ⏳ Dual Timelines 🔍 Cold Case

I Died at Fallow Hall 86%

Bones found beneath the roses force an English village to unearth a murder buried for decades.

by Bonnie Burke-Patel 2024

3.72

725 ratings

🏚️ Gothic Mystery ⏳ Dual Timelines 🔍 Cold Case

Sparkling Cyanide

by Agatha Christie • 1945

Letters claim his wife was murdered, so a widower restages the fatal dinner party.

3.92

43k+

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🍷 Dinner Party Murder 💔 Love Triangle

Sparkling Cyanide 86%

Letters claim his wife was murdered, so a widower restages the fatal dinner party.

by Agatha Christie 1945

3.92

43k+ ratings

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🍷 Dinner Party Murder 💔 Love Triangle

Crooked House

by Agatha Christie • 1949

When a patriarch is poisoned, his granddaughter's suitor must unmask the killer living among them.

4.08

95k+

🔎 Golden Age Mystery 🏚️ Country House Mystery 🔪 Family Murder Mystery

Crooked House 86%

When a patriarch is poisoned, his granddaughter's suitor must unmask the killer living among them.

by Agatha Christie 1949

4.08

95k+ ratings

🔎 Golden Age Mystery 🏚️ Country House Mystery 🔪 Family Murder Mystery

Peril at End House

by Agatha Christie • 1932

A bullet through an heiress's hat lures Poirot from retirement into a web of staged accidents.

4.02

86k+

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🏡 Country House Mystery 📜 Inheritance Plot

Peril at End House 86%

A bullet through an heiress's hat lures Poirot from retirement into a web of staged accidents.

by Agatha Christie 1932

4.02

86k+ ratings

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🏡 Country House Mystery 📜 Inheritance Plot

Nemesis

by Agatha Christie • 1971

A dead man's bequest sends Miss Marple on a coach tour to solve an unnamed murder.

3.87

46k+

🧶 Elderly Sleuth 🕰️ Cold Case ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

Nemesis 86%

A dead man's bequest sends Miss Marple on a coach tour to solve an unnamed murder.

by Agatha Christie 1971

3.87

46k+ ratings

🧶 Elderly Sleuth 🕰️ Cold Case ⚖️ Wrongful Conviction

Gaslit

by R.R. Haywood • 2024

A disgraced ex-cop house-sits a remote manor, but the gaslights flicker and every room has eyes.

4.04

2k+

🏚️ Gothic Thriller 🕯️ Gaslighting 🏰 Isolated Estate

Gaslit 86%

A disgraced ex-cop house-sits a remote manor, but the gaslights flicker and every room has eyes.

by R.R. Haywood 2024

4.04

2k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Thriller 🕯️ Gaslighting 🏰 Isolated Estate

The Housemaid

by Sarah A. Denzil • 2021

At a grand gothic estate, a new maid learns why the last one never left.

3.57

32k+

🏚️ Gothic Mansion 🔪 Family Of Predators 👀 Servant Perspective

The Housemaid 86%

At a grand gothic estate, a new maid learns why the last one never left.

by Sarah A. Denzil 2021

3.57

32k+ ratings

🏚️ Gothic Mansion 🔪 Family Of Predators 👀 Servant Perspective

A Fire at the Exhibition

by T.E. Kinsey • 2023

A village exhibition. Fire. Theft. Murder. Two lady sleuths dig for treasure in Edwardian England.

4.47

6k+

🔎 Village Cozy Mystery 👒 Edwardian England 👯 Female Detective Duo

A Fire at the Exhibition 86%

A village exhibition. Fire. Theft. Murder. Two lady sleuths dig for treasure in Edwardian England.

by T.E. Kinsey 2023

4.47

6k+ ratings

🔎 Village Cozy Mystery 👒 Edwardian England 👯 Female Detective Duo

Hercule Poirot's Silent Night

by Sophie Hannah • 2023

Trapped in a crumbling Norfolk house at Christmas, Poirot hunts a killer who targets happy men.

3.68

12k+

👑 Golden Age Mystery 🏠 Country House Murder 🔒 Locked Room Mystery

Hercule Poirot's Silent Night 86%

Trapped in a crumbling Norfolk house at Christmas, Poirot hunts a killer who targets happy men.

by Sophie Hannah 2023

3.68

12k+ ratings

👑 Golden Age Mystery 🏠 Country House Murder 🔒 Locked Room Mystery

Death of a Nurse

by M.C. Beaton • 2016

A Highland constable's dinner date is cut short when the private nurse washes ashore dead.

3.80

6k+

🏘️ Village Cozy 🕵️ Lonely Detective 🔍 Classic Whodunit

Death of a Nurse 86%

A Highland constable's dinner date is cut short when the private nurse washes ashore dead.

by M.C. Beaton 2016

3.80

6k+ ratings

🏘️ Village Cozy 🕵️ Lonely Detective 🔍 Classic Whodunit

Poirot's Early Cases

by Agatha Christie • 1974

A meticulous Belgian refugee reads the souls of English killers in 18 early cases.

3.91

17k+

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🔒 Locked Room Mystery 🎭 Hidden Identities

Poirot's Early Cases 86%

A meticulous Belgian refugee reads the souls of English killers in 18 early cases.

by Agatha Christie 1974

3.91

17k+ ratings

🕵️ Golden Age Mystery 🔒 Locked Room Mystery 🎭 Hidden Identities

The Hound of the Baskervilles

by Arthur Conan Doyle • 1902

A corpse on the moor, giant paw prints, a family curse. Holmes protects the last heir.

4.14

393k+

🕯️ Gothic Mystery 🔍 Debunked Haunting 🩸 Family Curse

The Hound of the Baskervilles 86%

A corpse on the moor, giant paw prints, a family curse. Holmes protects the last heir.

by Arthur Conan Doyle 1902

4.14

393k+ ratings

🕯️ Gothic Mystery 🔍 Debunked Haunting 🩸 Family Curse

A Life in Nature

by Marc Hamer • 2019

A molecatcher's memoir: what a lifetime of killing teaches about nature, loss, and wild belonging.

4.16

2k+

🌿 Nature Memoir 🇬🇧 British Countryside 🐾 Animal Ethics

A Life in Nature 86%

A molecatcher's memoir: what a lifetime of killing teaches about nature, loss, and wild belonging.

by Marc Hamer 2019

4.16

2k+ ratings

🌿 Nature Memoir 🇬🇧 British Countryside 🐾 Animal Ethics

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