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by Susan Wittig Albert
Read by Patti Heider. China Bayles spends her savings to leave her prestigious Houston law practice and settle in a small town to run the Thyme and Seasons herb shop. The apparent suicide of her good friend disturbs the peace, and China uncovers letters that point to murder. When a second questionable death occurs, China learns that evil deeds do not discriminate between city and town. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
MAL007 / Buy $24.99 / Rent $10.25
by Margery Allingham
Read by Peter Davidson. Lying on the table was the body of Pig Peters. It was clear without touching his limp, pudgy hand that he could not have been dead for more than 12 hours at the outside. Yet Pig died in January, and this was June. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MAL002 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Margery Allingham
Read by Francis Matthews. Every year since the death of a great artist, one of his paintings only has been released for exhibition. At the eighth unveiling, the friends and family instead uncover a murder. One of the guests is sleuth Albert Campion, who faces a suspiciously long line of suspects. (8.5 hrs. 8 cs.)
MAL003 / Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Margery Allingham
Read by Francis Matthews. Elegant and engaging Albert Campion, detective, is called into the extraordinary Palinode household. Ruth has been poisoned, Lawrence talks in crossword-puzzle clues, Evadne plays at amateur detective, Jessica concocts evil-smelling brews in the back-kitchen, and Clytie regularly disrobes on the roof. (8.5 hrs. 6 cs.)
MAL004 / Buy $49.95 / Rent $12.25
by Margery Allingham
Read by Francis Matthews. When a french hotel proprietor asks Guffy Randall to vouch for the authenticity of three of the guests, Guffy is astonished to find that the people in question are the adventurer Albert Campion with two young friends, posing as the Paladin of Averna and his entourage! Before long, Guffy finds himself pulled into their search for the crown and deeds of a lost kingdom. (7.5 hrs. 6 cs.)
MAL005 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Margery Allingham
Read by Francis Matthews. He awoke in a neat hospital bed to the sound of voices in the corridor mumbling about his hanging. He had no idea what he had done, or exactly who he was. Escaping from the hospital, he finds that everyone, even the enchanting Amanda, expects him to do something vital for England on the brink of war. (8 hrs. 6 cs.)
MAL006 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Linda Barnes
Read by Margaret Whitton. Boston PI Carlotta Carlyle joins the computer age, when she isn't moonlighting as a cabbie. Her bosses, wheelchair-bound Gloria, soul queen of dispatchers, and Sam, Carlotta's on-again, off-again lover, hire her to investigate a series of vicious attacks against cabbies. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MBA001 / Buy $16.99 / Rent $5.75
by Nevada Barr
Read by Joanna Gleason. Anna Pigeon finds solace in the cliffs and quiet ruins of Mesa Verde National Park, until strange deaths penetrate her personal preoccupations. People visiting the park are falling ill in large numbers, and an asthmatic child dies. Anna races against time and rumors of native american ghosts, to figure out the cause. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
by Nevada Barr
Read by Cindy Williams. A sudden plane crash on an island off the coast of Georgia brings Anna Pigeon and other fire crew rangers on the scene. The fire is quickly put out, but the rumors and suspicions surrounding the accident grow worse by the day, as the island population closes in on itself. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Read by Mason Adams. When a rich railcar owner disappears with millions of dollars belonging to Moose County investors, international police launch a search for the criminal. Jim Qwilleran and his feline crime-busters find a mystery closer to home: who blew the whistle on the embezzler, and why? (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MBR007 / Buy $17.95 / Rent $5.75
by Lilian Jackson Braun
Read by Mason Adams. The Great Food Explo in the little town of Pickax begins with a bomb, killing a housekeeper and causing extensive damage. Qwill's moustache is twitching with suspicions about the bomb, planted in his mind by Koko and Yum Yum's new interest in cheese, especially Gruyere, Brie and Feta. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MBR008 / Buy $17.95 / Rent $5.75
by Lilian Braun
Read by Mason Adams. Soon after banker Willard Carmichael and his flashy young wife Danielle move to Pickax, with big plans for restoring victorian houses, small items around town begin to disappear. When Willard is killed, Danielle's cousin appears a bit too eager to pick up the restoration project. Qwilleran, Koko and Yum Yum rush to investigate and stop a big city crime wave. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MBR009 / Buy $17.95 / Rent $5.75
by Simon Brett
Read by the author. Who killed Marius Steen, theatrical tycoon whose fortune is left to his young mistress Jaqui? And who killed Bill Sweet, shady blackmailer holding compromising photographs? Middle-aged actor Charles Paris takes to detection by assuming a variety of roles, among them that of a Scotland Yard detective sergeant. The results are both comic and dramatic. (4 hrs. 4 cs.)
MBR002 / Buy $35.95 / Rent $10.25
by Simon Brett
Read by Simon Jones. Charles Paris, chronically out-of-work actor and unlikely sleuth, gets a gig as a forklift driver in a corporate video. Something about the happy family facade of the company bothers Charles; nothing prepares him for the forklift as murder weapon. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MBR004 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Edna Buchanan
Read by Joan Allen. Cuban-american crime reporter Britt Montero's coverage of a routine accident turns into her most dangerous story. A former football star has a fatal collision as he flees the police, and as Britt digs below the surface of the story, she is caught in the cross fire when justice goes awry and Miami erupts into a war zone. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MBU001 / Buy $16 / Rent $5.75
by Edna Buchanan
Read by Sandra Burr. Britt Montero is back on Miami's mean streets. A film crew is shooting an action movie on location, but more than one real killer is on the loose. A handsome film star walks into the newsroomÑand Britt's lifeÑto research his role as a government agent under deep cover as a reporter. But soon he needs Britt to cover for him as an obsessive stalker pursues the pair from the movie set to the city streets. (8 hrs. 6 cs.)
MBU002 / Buy $57.25 / Rent $12.25
by Dorothy Cannell
Read by Sharon Williams. Ellie's mother-in-law has moved in permanently and Ellie finds herself up to her formerly fat neck in crocheted doilies and cheap statues of catholic saints. Ellie discovers that she is not the only woman in Chitterdon Fells with mother-in-law problems. One tipsy evening, four imaginary plots to bump off the resident in-laws are hatched. When those plots start coming lethally true in real life, Ellie plunges into a desperate chase to outwit a killer. (8 hrs. 6 cs.)
MCA004 / Buy $57.25 / Rent $12.25
by Raymond Chandler
Read by Daniel Massey. "So you're a private detective," she said. "I didn't know they really existed except in books." Hard-boiled Philip Marlowe is led on a trail of drugs, guns and blackmail, deep into the California underworld, in this, his first and most famous case. (2.5 hrs. 2 cs.)
MCH007 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by G.K. Chesterton
Read by Patrick McDaid. "Father Brown is unique. He...stands high among the very small list of great detectives of fiction."-The NYTimes. Chesterton's Father Brown has been applauded by Ellery Queen as one of the finest collections of detective stories ever written. Contains: "The Absence of Mr. Glass," "The Man in the Passage," "The Blast of the Book," and "The Oracle of the Dog." (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MCH009 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Agatha Christie
Read by Joan Hickson. Henry Clithering, ex-commissioner of Scotland Yard, is staying with his old friends Col. and Mrs. Bantry, who live near St. Mary Mead. "When I was down here last, we got into the habit of discussing unsolved mysteries... We hardly realized that Miss Marple was playing... The old lady outdid us every time." And so it is decided to ask Miss Marple to dinner and she proceeds to unravel four mysteries in her incomparable fashion. (2.5 hrs. 2 cs.)
MCH001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Agatha Christie
Read by Nigel Hawthorne. "Good night for a murder," Inspector Japp remarked to Hercule Poirot as they walked home from a dinner on Guy Fawkes Night. "Nobody would hear a shot on a night like this." Indeed the next morning, both men are called in to investigate a mysterious case of murder disguised as suicide. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
MCH002 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Agatha Christie
Read by Nigel Hawthorne. Here is Hercule Poirot at his best, in this full-length mystery thriller. Summoned to the country house of Gervase Chevenix-Gore, Poirot arrives to find his host already dead. Everyone in the house is a suspect-and Poirot must find the motive and the murderer. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MCH003 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Agatha Christie
Read by Tim Piggott-Smith. Three superb brainteasers. In "Philomel Cottage," one of Christie's best, Alix Martin marries a man she hardly knows and is consumed with suspicion about his buried past. Also includes "The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl," and "The Red Signal," a story about premonition and the sixth sense. (2.5 hrs. 2 cs.)
MCH005 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Agatha Christie
Read by Joan Hickson. The "sweet-faced-and, some said, vinegar-tongued-" Jane Marple investigates four mysteries on this recording. Joan Hickson, who created the role of Miss Marple on the BBC television series, reads "The Tape Measure Murder," "Strange Jest," "The Case of the Perfect Maid," and "The Case of the Caretaker." (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
MCH006 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Agatha Christie
Read by Norman Barrs. This is one of Agatha Christie's most famous and most ingenious novels. A hanging judge, a diary-toting spinster, an ex-spy in disguise and seven other strangers, each with a guilty secret, are invited to isolated Indian Island by the mysterious Mr. Owen. (6 hrs. 6 cs.)
MCH011 / Buy $44.95 / Rent $12.25
by Agatha Christie
Read by Rosemary Leach. Miss Marple's nephew arranged for her to go on a trip to the West Indies, and she is duly grateful, and a bit bored. Life in St. Mary Mead, she thinks, was full of variety, whereas one day in the Caribbean seems much like any other, with palm trees, white sands and the droning tones of an old man retelling his stories of elephant-shooting and colonial scandals. Then Major Palgrave is found dead, and Miss Marple perks up. (6.25 hrs. 6 cs.)
MCH013 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Mary Higgins Clark
Read by Megan Gallagher. Menley Nichols has never stopped blaming herself for the accidental death of her two-year-old son. When she and her husband Adam, a high-profile attorney, are blessed with a beautiful baby daughter, they dedicate themselves to rebuilding their lives together-unaware that someone in their midst has a very different agenda for them. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MCL007 / Buy $18 / Rent $5.75
by Mary Higgins Clark
Read by Bess Armstrong. Kerry McGrath, smart and relentless prosecutor, is a candidate for a judgeship when her daughter is injured in a car accident. In the office of the plastic surgeon treating the injuries, Kate sees a face she realizes figures in the 10-year-old "sweetheart" murder case. When she starts asking questions, she discovers that everyone involved wants the case to stay closed, at any price. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MCL008 / Buy $18 / Rent $5.75
by Mary Higgins Clark
Read by Jennifer Beals. When her husband comes to New York for treatment for his leukemia, Catherine Dornan accompanies him, bringing their two sons. Walking around the city to look at christmas sights, one of the boys sees a woman take off into the subways with his mother's wallet, which holds a memento with the power, he believes, to cure his father. The boy follows her, into a journey that will change his and his mother's lives. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
MCL009 / Buy $16 / Rent $5.75
by Mary Higgins Clark
Read by Megan Gallagher. Maggie Holloway has put tragedy behind her and become a successful fashion photographer, when she is reunited with Nuala, who had once been her stepmother. When Maggie goes to visit the woman, she finds her dead, and finds that Nuala has left her victorian house to Maggie, with one proviso: that Maggie occasional visit Nuala's old friend Greta. Going with Greta to the visit Nuala's grave, Maggie begins to suspect that something is terribly wrong, and puts her photographic skills to work to uncover the secrets hidden on the gravesites of Nuala and other friends recently dead. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
by Mary Higgins Clark
Read by Megan Follows. Clark introduces a sleuthing duo: one a beloved retired president, the other, 17 years his junior, his wife Sunday, who has just been elected to congress in an upset victory that made her a media darling. Together, they make a formidable team of sleuths, especially when working among their friends in political high society, as in this collection of stories. (4.5 hrs. 4 cs.)
MCL011 / Buy $22 / Rent $10.25
by Mary Higgins Clark
Read by Kate Nelligan. Professor Alan Grant is found stabbed to death in his New Jersey home. All evidence points to Laurie Kenyon, an obsessed student who sent him passionate letters, followed him, even watched him through his study window. And she awakens in her dorm room covered with Grant's blood and clutching the knife that killed him. Attorney Sarah Kenyon, Laurie's sister, alone understands Laurie and the trauma left by a childhood kidnapping, including a murderous threat made to a terrified girl. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MCL013 / Buy $17 / Rent $5.75
by Jon Cleary
Read by Gordon Griffin. Prosperous yet tense, the australian country town of Collamundra is the scene of the murder of japanese industrialist Kenji Sagawa. When Inspector Scobie Malone is called down from Sydney, the locals resent his enquiries into the easy-going corruption of the establishment, and his obsession with an unsolved murder. As the list of suspects grows, tensions escalate. Then a surprise discovery slots everything into place. (12 hrs. 8 cs.)
MCL012 / Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Read by Hugh Burden. Probably the best known of the Sherlock Holmes stories. For generations, a monstrous curse has hung over the Baskerville family. Now the hideous beast has claimed another victim. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson solve the most bewildering and blood-curdling case of their career. (2 hrs. 2 cs.)
MCO001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Read by William Barker. Three tales of adventure and intrigue involve the famous Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The masters of detection solve mysteries surrounding lost gems, lost brides and lost children. Contains: "The Blue Carbuncle," "The Noble Bachelor," and "The Copper Beeches." (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MCO002 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Read by William Barker. Holmes gets an odd message-long thin rectangles on a sheet of paper. He and his trusted Watson have no idea of the danger and intrigue they have been hired to deal with when they agree to investigate the case. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
MCO004 / Buy $19.95 / Rent $10.25
by Patricia D. Cornwell
Read by Lindsay Crouse. Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta's high-tech forensic skills enable her to collect a body of evidence, clues that would mean little without her intelligence, compassion and imagination, leading to the murderer of two successful writers who were jealous of each other. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
by Patricia Cornwell
Read by Chris Sarandon. A knowing and wry story of big-city police and big-city crime, this is a study of the lives and motives of ordinary mortals in extraordinary circumstances. The city is Charlotte, and the heroes are Andy Brazil, an ambitious young reporter and volunteer cop; Judy Hammer, strong and troubled police chief; and her deputy, Virginia West, a head-turner married to her job. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
MCO011 / Buy $24.95 / Rent $10.25
by Patricia D. Cornwell
Read by Lindsay Crouse. Medical examiner Kay Scarpetta uses her skilled hands, unerring eye and advances in forensics to identify a killer, before she is added to his hit list. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MCO006 / Buy $16 / Rent $5.75
by Patricia D. Cornwell
Read by Sheila Hart. Recently executed murderer Waddell haunts chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta: papers he stole are missing, and the governor of the state seems to be willing to do just about anything to get his hands on them. Then Waddell's fingerprints turn up at the scene of a new murder. (11 hrs. 8 cs.)
MCO007 / Buy $57.25 / Rent $13.75
by Patricia D. Cornwell
Read by Sheila Hart. Virginia's chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta is puzzled by a killer who stalks young lovers, leaving behind a single playing card as clue. There is no sign of violence; the lovers appear to have wandered off into the woods. A bloodhound smells something very interesting on the front seat. (9 hrs. 6 cs.)
MCO008 / Buy $57.25 / Rent $12.25
by Patricia D. Cornwell
Read by Jill Eikenberry. Forensic pathologist Scarpetta's fans will enjoy her investigations into the grisly experiments going on at an obscure research facility in Tennessee, where only Kay can interpret the forensic hieroglyphics that crack the case. Meanwhile, she opens herself to the first physical and emotional bond she has felt in a long time. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MCO009 / Buy $17 / Rent $5.75
by Patricia Cornwell
Read by Blair Brown. Dr. Kay Scarpetta's New Year's Eve is spent at the bottom of an icy river where her friend investigative reporter Ted Eddings is dead. A second murder, hitting even closer to home, brings Scarpetta into the thick of a complicated case involving a white supremacist cult and the US Navy, with her niece, her police friend colleague, and her sometimes lover at her side. (4 hrs. 4 cs.)
by Patricia D. Cornwell
Read by Kate Reading. When the body of an elderly woman is found dismembered in a Virginia landfill, Kay Scarpetta initially believes it is the work of a serial killer she has encountered before. But then she discovers pox-like sores on the body which point to her having been exposed to a high-tech virus that might unleash an epidemic. The killer then contacts Kay via e-mail. (9 hrs. 8 cs.)
by Amanda Cross
Read by Jennifer Mangan. Kate Fansler and her husband are spending a semester teaching at a law school, where they meet the extraordinary Harriet, who styles herself after John le Carré's George Smiley. Harriet lures Kate into an investigation of the death of the school's only female tenured professor. (7.5 hrs. 5cs.)
by Linda Davies
Read by Harriet Walter. Sarah Jensen is one of the most successful currency traders in London, and intrigued when the governor of the Bank of England asks her to go undercover at a cutthroat international bank to discover corrupt trading practices. Sarah goes, and she finds fraud, and then two people close to her are murdered. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MDA001 / Buy $16.99 / Rent $5.75
by Susan Dunlap
Read by Margot Kidder. Where else but in Berkeley, California would naked protesters, competing health clubs, and ex-sixties radicals add up to murder? And who else would find herself smack in the middle of this crisis than back-on-the-beat detective Jill Smith, the beloved protagonist of seven previous Susan Dunlap mysteries. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MDU001 / Buy $16.99 / Rent $5.75
by Susan Dunlap
Read by Georgina Young. Berkeley California's tireless cop, Jill Smith, is summoned by her friend and fellow justice seekerÑthe irascible, pizza-loving PI Hermann OttÑto the lobby of the elegant Claremont Hotel, for reasons she can't understand and he won't divulge until they meet. The next day she finds that he isn't in his officeÑbut a dead body isÑnot to mention the body found in his car. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
MDU002 / Buy $23.95 / Rent $10.25
by Janet Evanovich
Read by Lori Petty. Stephanie Plum, the brassy babe in the powder blue Buick, is back, and she's having a bad hair dayÑfor the whole month of January. Stephanie is a bail-bond agent with a sassy lip, here given the unpopular task of finding Mo BedemierÑone of the burg's most beloved figures, who was unfortunately caught carrying concealed. But Mo seems to have skipped town, and his neighbors aren't talking. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MEV001 / Buy $18 / Rent $5.75
by Dick Francis
Read by Samuel Griffin. In the title story, chief superintendent Crispin wants the impossible. He asks the stewards to fix the Grand National, Britain's largest horse race. Even if it means nabbing the perpetrators of the Birmingham Bank robbery, can the Jockey Club sanction such a move? And if they can, how can they pull it off? (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MFR004 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Dick Francis
Read by Tony Britton. Despair, suicide and obsessive hatred-mixed well with humor, love and horses-brew up into the story of a battle between one man's nerve and another's cunning. A steeplechase jockey finds himself the focus of a malicious campaign which is also afflicting his friends. He sets out to uncover the source-and remove it. (8 hrs. 6 cs.)
by Dick Francis
Read by Christopher Cazenove. Multimillionaire Malcolm Pembroke is a collector of racehorses and wives. Family relationships, already strained by Pembroke's compulsive spending, snap when wife #5 is murdered. It is to his estranged son Ian that Pembroke turns for help. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MFR011 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Dick Francis
Read by Simon Jones. Architect and family man Lee Morris is unwillingly dragged into the thick of Stratton family squabbles as they wage a furious debate over the future of the Stratton Park race track. Perhaps too late, Lee realizes his involvement as a minor shareholder may cost him his life. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MFR013 / Buy $17 / Rent $5.75
by Dick Francis
Read by Jim Dale. Artist Charles Todd, whose paintings of horses earn him a comfortable living, visits the country home of his cousin, Donald, to find a scene of devastation. The house has been ransacked and the missing valuables include several recently acquired paintings by famous artists. Much worse, Donald's wife has been murdered and the local police are convinced he is the murderer. Charles travels to Australia and NZ in pursuit of a gallery of rogues who specialize in forging horsey works of art. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MFR014 / Buy $16 / Rent $5.75
by Dick Francis
Read by Michael York. Roland Britten, an accountant by profession but an amateur jockey by preference, awakens one morning to discover that he cannot move, he cannot see, and the only sound he can hear is the noise of an engine close by. He finally deduces that he is lying in the dark, tied near a generator. But why? Where? And by whom? (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MFR015 / Buy $16 / Rent $5.75
by Dick Francis
Read by Simon Jones. A dying former jockey confuses filmmaker Thomas Lyon for a priest, and confesses a life's worth of dangerous secrets to him-secrets that could cost Lyon his life. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MFR016 / Buy $17 / Rent $5.75
by Dick Francis
Read by Tony Britton. A british jockey, riding in Norway, has disappeared-and with him has gone a day's takings from the turnstiles of Oslo racecourse. The norwegian police have found no trace of him, nor have the british. David Cleveland, investigator of the jockey club, is a last resort, and soon finds himself in deep water. (7.25 hrs. 6 cs.)
MFR017 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Dick Francis
Read by Tony Britton. A vicious gang of horse dealers sense that their little kick-back scam is being threatened with a spot of old fashioned honesty. They figure they'll go for the strongest guy, bloodstock agent Jonah Dereham, and that when he falls, the weaker ones will fall like ninepins. Trouble is, Dereham's quiet exterior hides a steely and implacable resolve. (7 hrs. 6 cs.)
MFR019 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Dick Francis
Read by Tony Britton. James Tyrone was a troubleshooting racing correspondent for a newspaper dedicated to exposing scandals in the noisiest and most profitable way. Ty was accustomed to hot water, but from the day a colleague died after giving him some serious advice, he found himself in growing danger and confusion. An expose of a minor racing fraud turned into a major international crime case, his marriage was full of problems, including his liaison with an ice maiden dress designer. (7.25 hrs. 6 cs.)
MFR020 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Dick Francis
Read by Tony Britton. One night when Neil Griffon was left in termporary charge of his father's great Newmarket training stables and precious bloodstock, he was roughly abducted, then set free in a few hours. Free, but a victim of vicious threats, a weird form of extortion and a nerve-wracking war of attrition. (7.5 hrs. 6 cs.)
MFR012 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Dick Francis
Read by Simon Jones. Sid Halley exposed his hero racing figure as a monster and must testify at the man's trial. But the morning of his appearance, a suicide shatters the proceedings and jars Halley's conscience. Plagued by regret and the growing suspicion that there's more to the death than has yet come to light, he is catapulted into detection, torments and perils. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MFR021 / Buy $18 / Rent $5.75
by Dick Francis
Read by Tony Britton. A valuable stallion has vanished into the blue grass of Kentucky...and a young man and a girl spend a dangerous afternoon in a punt on the Thames. From these distant but related beginnings, Gene Hawkins, investigator by trade, finds himself trailing blood-horses over half America, until he in turn becomes the prey. (8 hrs. 6 cs.)
MFR022 / Buy $29.95 / Rent $12.25
by Dick Francis
Read by Tony Britton. Philip Nore is nearing the end as a jockey. George Millace is finished in photography. The difference is Millace is dead-and Nore has discovered his secret: a set of files which would blow the top off the racing world, and corruption on a scale he had never imagined. (8.5 hrs. 8 cs.)
by Dick Francis
Read by Tony Britton. Alexander Kinloch lives in a broken-down house on a weather-beaten scottish mountainside, the son of a fourth son of an earl and a solitary, quietly profitable, artist. One day his mother summons him home to London to the bed of his dying stepfather. As he leaves the untamed wilderness, Kinloch is plunged into a succession of surprises, threats and dangers in the fearful and dangerous company of polite society. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MFR024 / Buy $18 / Rent $5.75
by Dick Francis
Read by Simon MacCorkindale. "I inherited my brother's life. I inherited his desk, his business, his enemies, his worries and his mistress. I inherited my brother's life, and it nearly killed me." (2.5 hrs. 2 cs.)
MFR025 / Buy $18 / Rent $5.75
by Dick Francis
Read by Ian Ogilvy. Matt Shore, flying for a small air-taxi firm, took five people on a routine flight to the races: a trainer, two jockeys, an owner, and a friend. Awaiting them in the summer sky lay a quick extinction, which was avoided by a coincidence, or instinct, on Mark's part. He guessed the sudden death was aimed at one of his passengers. He didn't know who, or want to know. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
MFR026 / Buy $39.95 / Rent $10.25
by Dick Francis
Read by Tony Britton. Tim Ekaterin's merchant bank, like all banks, invests in only sure things. Now he is about to involve in in £5 million of prime horseflesh, a stallion called Sandcastle. Top breeders reckon it's the safest bet in racing. But racing doesn't just attract the money men of the City. It's riddled with all kinds of dubious dealmakers. People who don't think twice about breaking bones. People to whom no bet is safe until it is paid in blood. (9.25 hrs. 8 cs.)
MFR027 / Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Antonia Fraser
Read by Patricia Hodge. Everybody loved the tiny, pretty, successful novelist Chloe Fontaine. Almost everyone. Sinister things were going on in a modern penthouse in Bloomsbury one hot summer; then Chloe vanished. Jemima Shore is left in charge of the novelist's flat and, inevitably, unravelling the mystery of the owner's disappearance. (8 hrs. 6 cs.)
MFR008 / Buy $53.95 / Rent $12.25
by Antonia Fraser
Read by Patricia Hodge. Jemima Shore works as a freelance commentator for a U.S. TV company on the occasion of the marriage of a young princess to an older, dissipated european prince, and a conspiracy to protest and disrupt the event. Wickedly funny observations of contemporary London life. (7.5 hrs. 6 cs.)
MFR018 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Frances Fyfield
Read by Rula Lenska. When Sarah Fortune, with her impeccable qualifications and chequered history, is sent to a small seaside town in Norfolk, she goes willingly to sort out the inheritance problems of the Pardoes. But there is something strange about the town, a mystery that goes deeper than merely an ambiguously worded will-legacies of a moment two years ago when a beautiful woman with an uncanny resemblance to Sarah walked into the sea and never came back. (7.75 hrs. 6 cs.)
MFY001 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Elizabeth George
Read by Derek Jacobi. Forensic scientist Simon St. James agreed to go with Deborah on a holiday in the north of England, to talk about their childlessness and their marriage, and to visit a country vicar she knew. By the time the Londoners get there, the vicar is dead. St. James called on inspector Lynley to help him find out why the vicar's obvious murder was ruled death by misadventure. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MGE002 / Buy $15.99 / Rent $5.75
by Elizabeth George
Read by Derek Jacobi. Aristocratic dectective inspector Thomas Lynley and his working class partner Barbara Havers find themselves working on a case both frustrating and politically dangerous, drawing them from a fire pointing to murder, into the center of the national cricket team and its heroes. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MGE003 / Buy $16.99 / Rent $5.75
by Elizabeth George
Read by Derek Jacobi. The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end when someone drives a scottish dirk through her neck. Called in to investigate the case, Thomas Lynley and Barbara Havers grapple for both a motive and a murderer, with the list of suspects ranging from Britain's foremost actress to the woman Lynley loves. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
by Elizabeth George
Read by Derek Jacobi. Ten-year-old Charlotte Bowen has been abducted. She is the daughter of a high profile Junior Minister, quite possibly the next Margaret Thatcher. But her father's identity was a well kept secret, hailed as the "king of sleaze," tabloid editor Dennis Luxford. The kidnappers' terms are for Luxford to admit publicly to having fathered Charlotte, or she will die. A case for Inpector Thomas Lynley and Sergeant Barbara Havers. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
MGE005 / Buy $23.95 / Rent $10.25
by Elizabeth George
Read by Derek Jacobi. In a dying town on the Essex coast, a member of the town's small but growing asian community is found dead near the beach, and the sleepy town ignites. Intrigued by the involvement of her London neighbor Taymullah Azhar in what appears to be a racial conflagration, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers gets herself assigned to the case. Without her longtime partner Thomas Lynley, Havers must probe not only the mind of a murderer in a case very close to her own heart, but also the terrible price people pay for deceiving others, and themselves. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
by Dorothy Gilman
Read by Sada Thompson. Emily Pollifax, grandmother, Garden Club stalwart and part-time CIA agent, is off to Morocco to accompany another CIA operative on a tour to discover the impostor among seven undercover informants. Soon, our hera suspects that her colleague is not exactly the person he seems to be, and she is then on her own to cover barren stretches of the country, armed only with her quick wit and steely resolve. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MGI001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Dorothy Gilman
Multivoice. When Mrs. Pollifax finds that a terrified young woman has been hiding in her storage closet for two days, her springtime peace is shattered. Mrs. P soon discovers that the woman's improbable story is true. Calling on help from her old cronies at the CIA, Mrs. P starts off undercover at a carnival and ends in a palace in Africa. (5 hrs. 6 cs.)
MGI002 / Buy $57.25 / Rent $12.25
by Sue Grafton
Read by Judy Kaye. Kinsey Millhone, PI, is a 32-year-old, twice divorced ex-cop with an irreverent, wise-cracking style reminiscent of Philip Marlowe. She plies her trade in the small southern California town of Santa Theresa. Here she is attempting to clear an innocent young wife who was tried and convicted of her husband's murder eight years earlier. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MGR004 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Sue Grafton
Read by Judy Kaye. Kinsey Millhone accepts a routine case of a missing sister, last seen in a lynx coat and headed for Boca Raton. She never got there, but someone else did and is staying in her house. When Kinsey is called off by the woman who hired her, and a neighbor of the missing woman turns up dead, the case is far from routine. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MGR007 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Sue Grafton
Read by Judy Kaye. Bobby came to Kinsey Millhone, PI, to help him unravel the past that led to his near-fatal car accident. Three days later he was dead. The more Kinsey finds out, the more certain she is that the killer will return. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MGR009 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Sue Grafton
Read by Judy Kaye. Kinsey Millhone, PI, finds her employer's dead body-she must find the murderer, and then somehow get the stiff to pay her what he owes. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MGR012 / Buy $16 / Rent $5.75
by Sue Grafton
Read by Judy Kaye. A routine insurance investigation rapidly becomes dangerous when Kinsey is set up to look as if she is on the take. When she sets out to discover why, the trail leads to a wealthy family, murder, and one of her ex-husbands. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MGR001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Sue Grafton
Read by Judy Kaye. Kinsey takes on the case of Bailey Fowler, found guilty of murder 17 years ago, escaped from prison a year later, and now picked up by a fluke of mistaken identity. Can Kinsey find the real killer in time to save Bailey from going back to prison? (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MGR002 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Sue Grafton
Read by Judy Kaye. Kinsey is on a case at the heart of which is a long-buried betrayal-and someone who would like nothing better than to bury Kinsey along with it. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MGR003 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Sue Grafton
Read by Judy Kaye. This Kinsey Millhone mystery is about the death of Parnell Perkins, a claims adjuster for California Fidelity. To the cops it looked like a robbery gone sour, but to Kinsey it looked strangely suspicious. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MGR005 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Sue Grafton
Read by Judy Kaye. Almost five years ago, Isabelle was shot. Her second husband was accused and acquitted, but her first husband doesn't believe it. The estate is worth millions. Savvy, sexy, cynical Kinsey Millhone, PI, discovers that even more people hated Isabelle than hate the acquitted man. Someone got away with murder. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MGR008 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Sue Grafton
Read by Judy Kaye. A rich man disappeared at sea; five years later the insurance company has to pay up to the tune of half a million dollars. When they hear a rumor that the man who vanished has just been seen, the insurance people put Kinsey Millhone, PI, on the case. She faces danger and questions, including a surprise inquiry into her own family history. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MGR013 / Buy $16 / Rent $5.75
by Sue Grafton
Read by Judy Kaye. Kinsey Millhone is taken deep into the heart of murder, where the victims rise up as a reminder that the taking of a life is no laughing matter. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MGR016 / Buy $17 / Rent $5.75
by Sue Grafton
Read by Judy Kaye. Borderline delinquent Kinsey Millhone, P.I., has met her duplicitous match in a couple of world-class prevaricators who take her quite literally for the the ride of her life. Quick-witted and nosy, Kinsey finds mystery without a murder, a treasure hunt without a map and a quest with very mixed-up motives. Her fastest and funniest adventure to date leaves her halfway across the country with a major headache and an empty bank balance. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MGR010 / Buy $18 / Rent $5.75
by Sue Grafton
Read by Judy Kaye. Malek Construction is one of the big three in California construction, one of the few still in family hands. Four sons now nearing middle age stand to inherit a fortune. Eighteen years ago, one of them angry, troubled, and in trouble went missing. This prodigal son will find no welcome at his family's table, but Kinsey Millhone is hired to trace him. (4 hrs. 4 cs.)
MGR017 / Buy $24 / Rent $10.25
by Martha Grimes
Read by Tim Curry. The death of Jane Holdsworth hits too close to home for superintendent Richard Jury. He cannot believe that the woman he wanted to marry could kill herself. When Jury himself comes under suspicion and can't leave London, he sends his old friend Melrose Plant to the Lake District to find some answers. Together they uncover mysteries, shocks and surprises at every turn. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MGR015 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Martha Grimes
Read by Tim Curry. With the fens of Lincolnshire and the North Sea as its somber backdrop, this Richard Jury and Melrose Plant mystery involves two women murdered near the Fengate estate, where on was a kitchen maid, the other the antique freak owner's exwife. (4.5 hrs. 4 cs.)
by Dashiell Hammett
Read by Michael Prichard. The town's name is Personville, but some call it Poisonville. Henry Neill, the Continental Op and ultimate PI, discovers why when someone kills his client there. It turns out his client was the last honest citizen in a town that made simple corruption look like a virtue. (7 hrs. 7 cs.)
MHA001 / Buy $42 / Rent $13
by Carolyn C. Hart
Read by Kate Reading. Annie's mother-in-law Laurel Laurance and her meddling are no joke. Annie has lost her sense of humor about Laurel, but not her sense of perspective. When police charge Laurel with a neighbor's murder, Annie knows they are wrong. Now she has to prove it, and to prove definitively that she does not need Laurel's help. (9 hrs. 6 cs.)
MHA002 / Buy $48 / Rent $12.25
by George V. Higgins
Read by Michael Kramer. Jerry Kennedy has made his reputation as counsel for the defense, but now he is on the attack. He is convinced to bring a wrongful death suit, but the more he learns the clearer it is that Sandra Nichols, found dead, was murdered, and all the evidence points to her husband as the one who dun it. (10.5 hrs. 7 cs.)
by Tony Hillerman
Read by the author. Hillerman's intriguing and unusual mystery novels, set in the southwest of the navajo people, are "unique in American crime fiction."-LA Times. Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and officer Jim Chee are reunited on a case with two seemingly unrelated parts: a museum's policy of not returning ancestral remains to Native Americans, and the strange murder of a stranger. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MHI001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Tony Hillerman
Read by the author. Another in the brilliant series of mysteries set in the navajo tribal lands. Navajo tribal police officer Jim Chee and lieutenant Joe Leaphorn re-examine the case of Ashie Pinto, a poor shaman, charged with the murder of Jim Chee's best friend, when it becomes clear that there is more to the case than meets the eye. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MHI002 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Tony Hillerman
Read by Gil Silverbird. Sergeant Chee of the navajo tribal police is supposed to discover who is sabotaging a windmill on land recently ceded to the Hopis. His genius at sleuthing leads him to a mysterious plane crash, missing cocaine, a corpse in the desert and intrigue driven by navajo sorcery and white greed. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MHI003 / Buy $16 / Rent $5.75
by Tony Hillerman
Read by Jonathan Marosz. A casual summer outing in the high desert to investigate rumors of witchcraft leads navajo tribal police lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and anthropologist Bergen McKee to a series of inexplicable murders in the beautiful canyons of the reservation. (6 hrs. 6 cs.)
by Tony Hillerman
Read by Gil Silverbird. Joe Leaphorn may be retired, and Jim Chee acting lieutenant, but the two manage to get together to solve an eleven-year-old mystery involving a man's fall off Ship Rock, 1700 feet above the desert floor. Through the memories of those who had known him, the navajo policemen get a picture of the fallen man, who had been given everything and found it not enough. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
MHI008 / Buy $25 / Rent $10.25
by Tony Hillerman
Read by Jonathon Marosz. A routine truancy case leads navajo police Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee to the scene of two grisly murders. Their investigation leads to a team of lobbyists intent on putting a toxic waste dump on the reservation. Greed, betrayal and tribal magic take their parts in front of a spectacular backdrop. (8 hrs. 8 cs.)
MHI006 / Buy $48 / Rent $13.75
by Elspeth Huxley
Read by Jill Tanner. Young canadian superintendent Vachell is called to Lady Baradale's safari camp to investigate the disappearance of her jewels. Within hours, the lady is murdered, an attempt on Vachell's life fails but results in the death of the lady's prospective son-in-law, and Vachell has to stay alive while unravelling clues from a tangle of relationships in the safari camp. (8.25 hrs. 7 cs.)
MHU001 / Buy $61.95 / Rent $13
by Susan Isaacs
Read by Stockard Channing. This is an offbeat story of a secretary-turned-spy. Linda is a spunky young jewish woman from Queens who winds up working undercover for the OSS in Berlin during WWII. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
by Susan Isaacs
Read by Christine Baranski. Rosie Myers watched her husband change from math teacher to suave corporation president, discarding her along the way for a young VP of his company. Everyone thinks Rosie killed her husband; moments before her arrest, she flees to Manhattan to do some investigating of her own. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MIS001 / Buy $15.99 / Rent $5.75
by Susan Isaacs
Read by Ken Howard. A sunny stretch of Long Island beach is summer home to Manhattan's glitterati, and the perfect place to shoot films and live the good life. Murder victim Sy Spencer did both. Local bad boy, ex-drunk, ex-druggie, and tough cop Steve Brady thinks he knows just who hated Spencer, but is not prepared for falling in love with a suspect. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MIS002 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by P.D. James
Read by From the BBC Mystery Series starring Greta Scacchi. Cordelia Gray is the sharp-witted sleuth hired to protect a young actress in danger of being murdered. A remote country house with a bloodstained history creates a dark and claustrophobic atmosphere for this chilling mystery. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MJA001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by P.D. James
Read by Michael Jayston. At 18, Philippa, the adopted daughter of a well-known academic, has claimed her birth certificate from the registry office and, with it, a terrible discovery about her biological parents. Meanwhile, a man, newly released from a prison term for strangling his young daughter years ago, steels himself to meet Philippa's mother. (11.3 hrs. 10 cs.)
MJA002 / Buy $79.95 / Rent $15.25
by P.D. James
Read by Penelope Dellaporta. Mark Callender did not die the way a young gentleman should: he was found hanged, a lipstick stain on his mouth and a nude woman's picture nearby. The official verdict is suicide, but Mark's father suspects murder and hires fledgling detective Cordelia Gray to investigate. As she follows a trail of guilty secrets and shameful sins, Gray concludes that the nicest people do the nastiest things! (10.5 hrs. 7 cs.)
MJA004 / Buy $56 / Rent $13
by P.D. James
Read by Michael Jayston. Adam Dalgliesh, restless and thinking of resigning from the police force, accepts an invitation from an old friend in Dorset. When he arrives at isolated Toynton Grange, a stately home converted to a home for the disabled, he discovers that his host has recently and suddenly died. (9.75 hrs. 8 cs.)
MJA005 / Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by P.D. James
Read by Michael Jayston. The peaceful village of Monksmere was Adam Dalgliesh's retreat from the daily brutality of his job at Scotland Yard. Then the mutilated body of crime writer was found. Though the post mortem showed that he died from natural causes, Dalgliesh was not convinced, not when there was a host of suspects with reasons for wanting the writer dead. (7 hrs. 6 cs.)
MJA006 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by P.D. James
Read by Michael Jayston. Distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge defends Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally murdered his aunt. She succeeds, as usual, and then is stabbed at her desk in her chambers in the Middle Temple. Adam Dalgliesh and his team struggle to understand the shocking events and halt the spiral into more horrors, more murders. (15.5 hrs. 12 cs.)
MJA007 / Buy $44.95 / Rent $16.75
by J.A. Jance
Read by Gene Engene. The bloody corpses stashed in the broom closet of the Seattle school district building were lovingly entwined. It looked like a classic crime of passion to detective J.P. Beaumont. (9.5 hrs. 8 cs.)
by M.M. Kaye
Read by Virginia McKenna. When young Sarah Parrish takes a skiing holiday in Gulmarg, a resort high above the fabled vale of Kashmir, she anticipates an amusing but uneventful stay. But the discovery of the corpse of frey-haired, sociable Mrs Matthews casts a dark shadow over the party. On learning the real story behind her death, Sarah is plunged into a deadly intrigue of secret messages, mysterious rendezvous, and murder. ( 9.3 hrs. 8 cs.)
by Jonathan Kellerman
Read by John Rubinstein. LAPD detective Milo Sturgis calls in his friend Alex Delaware to help the children deal with the trauma, after a sniper opens fire in the chaos of a California schoolyard. As Alex becomes more deeply involved, he discovers that a wider net of malice and conspiracy has been cast that reaches far beyond the school. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MKE001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Jonathan Kellerman
Read by John Rubinstein. Kellerman's famous child psychologist and detective Alex Delaware discovers a web of disturbing events at a local hospital, including the murder of a doctor. Psychological suspense. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MKE002 / Buy $15.99 / Rent $5.75
by Jonathan Kellerman
Read by John Rubinstein. Alex Delaware has become the target of a carefully orchestrated campaign of vague threats rapidly building to a crescendo as harassment turns to terror. With the help of his LAPD detective friend, Alex discovers a seemingly random series of violent deaths that may somehow be related to a celebrated child psychologist. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MKE004 / Buy $16.99 / Rent $5.75
by Jonathan Kellerman
Read by John Rubinstein. Psychologist/detective Alex Delaware doesn't see many private patients any more, but Lucy is being tormented by a recurrent nightmare which is starting to disrupt her waking life. When Alex begins a series of hypnotic regressions, and Lucy insists that someone is trying to kill her, sleuth and therapist are both needed to find out whether her fears are self-induced or terrifyingly real. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MKE005 / Buy $16.99 / Rent $5.75
by Jonathan Kellerman
Read by John Rubinstein. Three months on a tiny Pacific island, all expenses paid-it's an invitation Alex Delaware can't refuse. Dr. Moreland, scientist and philanthropist, has asked Alex to help him organize his papers for publication, an easy job leaving plenty of free time for Alex to enjoy a romantic interlude with Robin Castagna. Quickly, however, secretive houseguests, frightening nocturnal visitors and the scientist's odd behavior dim the pleasures of blue water and white sand. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
by Jonathan Kellerman
Read by John Rubinstein. Hope Devane, psychology professor and controvertial author of a pop-psych bestseller indicting men, is murdered. Alex Delaware is called in by his detective friend Milo. They slowly unlock the many very private compartments of her life, her marriage, shadowy work for a clinic, her iron hand on the university conduct committee, and her baffling link with another murder. Not until Alex delves into Devane's childhood does he understand the formidable woman she had been. (Just don't believe his figures about what clinics get paid by Medi-Cal!) (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
by Jonathan Kellerman
Read by John Rubinstein. Psychologist-detective Alex Delaware teams up with LAPD's Milo Sturgis and the brilliant israeli detective inspector Daniel Sharavi to confront a "Échilling portrait of evil." The daughter of a diplomat dies on a school field trip somewhere in a deserted corner of the Santa Monica mountains, and her killer takes as much pleasure in matching wits with the police as in the killing, which comes again. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
MKE008 / Buy $24.95 / Rent $10.25
by Susan Kelly
Read by Pamela Klein. Freelance writer Liz Connors is receiving increasingly graphic hate mail from some psycho. When someone breaks into her apartment and leaves behind a mutilated doll, which looks a lot like Liz, she and her cop boyfriend, Jack Lingemann, decide that the joke's gone far enough. Little do they know how close to home the danger lurks. (9 hrs. 6 cs.)
MKE003 / Buy $57.25 / Rent $12.25
by Karen Kijewski
Read by Harley Jane Kozak. PI Kat Colorado's best friend Dakota Jones is a superstar country singer who begins to get threatening letters and dead rose bouquets. As the pranks escalate into violence, Kat digs deep into Dakota's past to find a lead to the stalker's identity, and finds too many possibilities, even in Dakota's family. (5 hrs. 4 cs.)
by Phillip Margolin
Read by Margaret Whitton. In Portland, Oregon, the wives of several prominent businessmen disappear without a trace, except for a single black rose and a note inscribed "Gone, but..." An identical series of disapearances occurred in NY 10 years ago, the killer was caught and the case closed. But Nancy Gordon, a homicide detective on the original "rose killer" taskforce swears he is still out there. Complex, utterly compelling and brilliantly told, this is a story that lives up to its extraordinary praise. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
MMA004 / Buy $22 / Rent $10.25
by Ngaio Marsh
Read by James Saxon. Troy Alleyn, celebrated artist and wife of Marsh's beloved sleuth, Roderick Alleyn, is having a lovely vacation among the tranquil landscapes of Constable country-until she finds a corpse afloat in a canal. Roderick takes the case, and discovers a master criminal thirsty for a second death. (7.5 hrs. 6 cs.)
MMA001 / Buy $49.95 / Rent $12.25
by Ngaio Marsh
Read by James Saxon. Martyn Tarne, lured from far away New Zealand to work in the London theatre, gets a job as dresser to Helena Hamilton, leading lady at the Vulcan Theater. The eagerly awaited opening night brings a strange turn of luck to Martyn-sudden death to a member of the cast. (7.75 hrs. 6 cs.)
MMA002 / Buy $49.95 / Rent $12.25
by Ngaio Marsh
Read by James Saxon. Superintendent Roderick Alleyn finds himself immersed in a conspiracy of blackmail and drug dealing while he is on a tourist trip to Rome. (7.5 hrs. 6 cs.)
MMA003 / Buy $49.95 / Rent $12.25
by Ngaio Marsh Read by Nadia May. Troy Alleyn, the inspector's wife, had been warned about the famed old shakespearean actor and his eccentric household before she went to his riotous birthday party. Now Sir Henry is dead, and Troy is star witness in one of her husband's most sensational cases. (10.5 hrs. 7 cs.)
MMA005 / Buy $44.95 / Rent $12.25
by Ngaio Marsh
Read by Jeremy Sinden. Scotland Yard's Alleyn and Fox are called to Little Codling to investigate a murder at the house of Pyke Period, celebrated for his fluency in the contrivance of mournful letters of sympathy to the recently bereaved. (7 hrs. 6 cs.)
MMA006 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Ngaio Marsh
Read by James Saxon. John Phillips was a successful Harley Street surgeon; Jane Harden was his very competent nurse. The emergency case on the operating table before them is the Home Secretary, and both of them are almost too nervous to proceed. The operation is a success, but the patient dies, and both Phillips and Harden had very good, very personal reasons to wish him dead. (7.5 hrs. 6 cs.)
MMA007 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Ngaio Marsh
Read by Nadia May. When murder upsets the creative tranquillity of an artists' colony, Scotland Yard sends in Roderick Alleyn to investigate. What begins as a routine case turns out to be the most momentous of his career. For before he can corner the killer, Alleyn's heart is captured by one of the suspects-the flashing-eyed painter Agatha Troy, who has nothing but scorn for the art of detection. (10.5 hrs. 7 cs.)
MMA008 / Buy $45.95 / Rent $12.25
by Ngaio Marsh
Read by James Saxon .Aging darling of the London stage Mary Bellamy holds a 50th birthday party, where someone uses insect spray on her instead of the azaleas. Superintendent Alleyn comes onto a scene where all the suspects, very theatrically, are playing the part of mourners. (8.75 hrs. 8 cs.)
MMA009 / Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Ngaio Marsh
Read by Nadia May. When murder upsets the creative tranquillity of an artists' colony, Scotland Yard sends in Roderick Alleyn to investigate. What begins as a routine case turns out to be the most momentous of his career. For before he can corner the killer, Alleyn's heart is captured by one of the suspects-the flashing-eyed painter Agatha Troy, who has nothing but scorn for the art of detection. (8.75 hrs. 8 cs.)
by Lia Matera
Read by Alexa Bower .Willa Jansson has resolved to plunge back into the world of rising young San Francisco lawyer. Heading in to her first day of work, she sees her old friend, mythology professor Arthur Kenna, about to be arrested for brandishing a gun. So much for the job when Willa throws herself between Arthur and the police and wiggles them both out of the scene. The pair go into hiding in redwood country, trying to evade the police, who now think Arthur murdered the young kwakiutl shaman who was his assistant, and the real killer, who may be part of a reclusive local high tech group. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
by Walter Mosley
Read by George C. Simms. Los Angeles, 1948: "Easy" Rawlins is a black war vet, just fired from his job, drinking in a friend's bar and worrying about his mortgage. A white man in a white suit offers money to locate a blonde known to frequent black jazz clubs. It turns out that others are looking for her and no one seems reluctant to kill anyone who gets in the way. "The social commentary is sly, the dialogue fabulous..." -Cosmopolitan (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
MMO002 / Buy $39.95 / Rent $10.25
by Marcia Muller
Read by Jean Reed-Bahle. PI Sharon McCone's work gets all snarled up with her family life. Her sister's marriage to Ricky, country music's hottest star, is on the fritz, while his musical career hits the top. Then Ricky's life, and that of his kids, is threatened. How can Sharon help if Ricky wont let her into his past and its secrets? (10 hrs. 8 cs.)
MMU001 / Buy $73.25 / Rent $13.75
by Marcia Muller
Read by Bernadette Dunne. An elderly woman lies dead down the hall of Sharon McCone's San Francisco apartment building and Sharon's friend was the last to see the woman alive. Circumstances conspire to make her appear a suspect. The trail leads to another tenant and then, surprisingly, to a string of deals and blackmail, and McCone finds her oldest friendship, her professional credibility, and even her life, in great danger. (6 hrs. 6 cs.)
MMU002 / Buy $36 / Rent $12.25
by Marcia Muller
Read by Bernadette Dunne. Sharon McCone, tough-minded investigator for a San Francisco legal services cooperative, noses her way through the tainted underbelly of a street occupied by an eclectic assortment of dealers in antiques, pseudo art, and junk. She's after the person who killed the diminutive antique dealer Joan Albritton with her own bone-handled knife. (6 hrs. 6 cs.)
by Perri O'Shaughnessy
Read by Laurel Merlington. Lawyer Nina opens a practice in Lake Tahoe, looking for a fresh start on life. Awaiting a big case, she agrees to help Misty to get a divorce from her abusive husband. Next thing, the husband has been murdered, and Nina has a big case. It's getting harder and harder to figure Misty out-there are big blanks in her memory, she tends to promiscuity, there is damning evidence against her. Is she a liar, a victim, a pawn? (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MOS001 / Buy $16.95 / Rent $5.75
by Sara Paretsky
Read by Kathy Bates. This crackling mystery, with a breath-taking performance by Bates, proves once again that you can't keep a good woman detective down. V.I. Warshawski agrees to help locate a friend's missing father, and finds herself wading through a toxic mix of corporate chicanery and chemical corruption. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MPA001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Sara Paretsky
Read by Kathy Bates. Private detective V.I. Warshawski finds her boozy old aunt on her doorstep one night after her sleazy rooming house has been torched. V.I. is only trying to find new accommodations for her pain-in-the-neck relative, but keeps running into interesting facts about recent fires and the development plans for the area where all the fires have appeared. When she pursues a few questions, she runs into stonewalling politicos. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MPA002 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Sara Paretsky
Read by Kathy Bates. In this V.I. Warshawski mystery, the detective finds herself caught between the cops and murderous goons from a powerful union. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MPA003 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Sara Paretsky
Read by Pamela Hensley Vincent. V.I. Warshawski at her independent, thoughtful, feminist best! She discovers a homeless family, then strange secrets in a homeless advocates' group, one of whose board members is murdered in Vic's office. Before she is done, she has taken on City Hall, her senator, immigrant slave labor, child sexual abuse, and money laundering operations. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
MPA008 / Buy $24.95 / Rent $10.25
by Sara Paretsky
Read by Jean Smart. Five stories for V.I. Warshawski fans: "The Takomoku Joseki," "At The Old Swimming Hole," "The Case Of The Pietro Andromache," "The Maltese Cat," and the never before published "Grace Notes." (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
MPA009 / Buy $24.95 / Rent $10.25
by Robert Parker
Read by David Dukes. When Hawk is hired by the tenants of a gang-plagued Boston housing project, he enlists the aid of his white friend Spenser. They discover that the drive-by shooting of a teenager and her infant was not at all accidental. Entangled with a band of hardened adolescent urban warriors, Spenser learns more than he ever dreamed about a generation imprisoned in a hell of poverty and hopelessness. (5 hrs. 4 cs.)
MPA007 / Buy $24.95 / Rent $10.25
by Anne Perry
Read by David McCallum. Victorian policeman Thomas Pitt is investigating a matter of treason: someone in the colonial office is passing information about England's African strategy. Pitt's childhood friend suddenly dies, and he thinks it is connected to the colonial office treachery through a clandestine organization, the Inner Circle. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MPE010 / Buy $17 / Rent $5.75
by Anne Perry
Read by Simon Jones. Inspector William Monk knows the best and the worst of his victorian London home, from its magnificent wealth at the center of empire to the suffering poverty of its working people. When Genevieve Stonefield comes to him to ask for his help in locating her missing husband, Monk is brought up against new levels of depravity which threaten to destroy his own good name and livelihood. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MPE013 / Buy $18 / Rent $5.75
by Elizabeth Peters
Read by Barbara Rosenblat. Amelia Peabody is the quintessential archaeologist of the 19th century british empire, and so is her bear of a husband Radcliffe Emerson. This journal account of their second adventure in Egypt among the ancient tombs begins with the murder of Sir Henry Baskerville, found with a crudely drawn serpent, symbol of the divine pharaoh, on his forehead. Peabody's style is more comic than mysterious. (11.75 hrs. 8 cs.)
MPE008 / Buy $59 / Rent $13.75
by Ellis Peters
Read by Richard Owens. When Crispin's father, archaeologist Bruce Almond, is tragically killed in Greece, the son returns to Somerset and a mother he barely knows. Crispin suspects that the death was no accident and in his confusion and grief, even his mother and two of his father's colleagues are under suspicion. Using the discovery of priceless greek treasures as bait, Crispin lays a clever and dangerous trap. (7 hrs. 7 cs.)
MPE015 / Buy $61.95 / Rent $13
by Elizabeth Peters
Read by Shirley Dixon. Althea returned to Egypt to discover the truth behind her father's disgrace and subsequent death. Without realizing it, she held the clue to the location of the fabulous tomb of queen Nefertiti. But this was dangerous knowledge-others were waiting to snatch the precious treasure and were willing to dispose of Althea, once they had her information. (6 hrs. 4 cs.)
MPE001 / Buy $35.95 / Rent $10.25
by Ellis Peters
Read by Sean Barrett. Rehearsals for Mozart's Marriage of Figaro were in full swing when the new baritone arrived from Europe to join the cast. He had a fine voice, but he quickly discovered old enemies-or made new ones-among the friendly company at the opera house. Worse still, he made a dead set at Hero, teenage daughter of the opera's owner. (5 hrs. 4 cs.)
MPE003 / Buy $44.95 / Rent $10.25
by Ellis Peters
Read by Stephen Thorne. Brother Cadfael, soldier turned benedictine, looks for the murderer of a merchant in medieval Shrewsbury at the annual fair. (8 hrs. 8 cs.)
MPE004 / Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Ellis Peters
Read by Paul Scofield. In the spring of 1145, a precious reliquary is stolen and brother Cadfael turns his talents to the problem. Before he has an answer, a man is murdered and the finger of suspicion points to a brilliant young musician. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MPE005 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Ellis Peters
Read by Stephen Thorne. Greedy guardians have arranged a marriage between an aging nobleman and a very young woman, in Shrewsbury, home of brother Cadfael. He is called in to investigate a savage killing and find the person responsible, but that person may be hiding out in the leper house outside Shrewsbury's walls. (7 hrs. 6 cs.)
MPE006 / Buy $53.95 / Rent $12.25
by Ellis Peters
Read by Stephen Thorne. Twelfth-century benedictine brother Cadfael lives a quiet life tending the herbarium at Shrewsbury, when his prior determines to acquire the bones of a saint from a remote village in Wales. Cadfael's worldly experience and welsh origins earn him a place on the expedition; his detecting skills end up being the ones called upon. (7.5 hrs. 6 cs.)
MPE009 / Buy $49.95 / Rent $12.25
by Ellis Peters
Read by William Gaminara. Willy Banks left home to get away from his domineering mother; the first thing he did was hitch-hike to his new town to save rail fare. The truck driver who picked him up asked Willy to deliver a package. If Calli had not had the urge to take Willy home with her, he would have gone up in smoke with the package and the apartment it was in. Willy and Calli set out to unsnarl a mystery, finding themselves in league with the police and in the middle of a war between rival gangs. (7.3 hrs. 6 cs.)
MPE011 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Ellis Peters
Read by Stephen Thorne. Brother Cadfael is impelled to leave the herbarium to investigate the mystery of a woman's body unearthed in the field owned by the abbey and until recently farmed by a potter and his wild, beautiful, welsh wife. The potter has gone to be a monk and his wife is rumored to have returned to Wales. So whose body is it that has turned up in Potter's Field? (9 hrs. 6 cs.)
MPE012 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Ellis Peters
Read by Stephen Thorne. In April 1144, Brother Cadfael leaves his monastery in the company of Heledd, a young woman desperate to escape an arranged marriage, and the youthful Brother Mark, representing the bishop on a church errand. The trip should have been quiet and peaceful, but the travellers become entangled in the conflict between Owain Gwynedd and his brother Cadwaladr, who has allied himself with a danish mercenary fleet. (9.25 hrs. 8 cs.)
MPE014 / Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Ellis Peters
Read by Stephen Thorne. A new priest comes to fill the vacant living of the Foregate, an impressive man, without the common touch, and soon found drowned in the mill pond. Chief suspect is the young man who arrived with the priest and works in Cadfael's garden. He soon attracts the friendship of a formidable girl, and Cadfael is set to sorting out the delicate strands defining guilt and innocence. (7 hrs. 6 cs.)
MPE016 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Ellis Peters
Read by Stephen Thorne. Brother Cadfael's gardens at the monastery in Shrewsbury are flourishing in 1138, his shelves boasting medications for every kind of ailment. When a local landowner is poisoned with Cadfael's own concoction for aching joints, the monk begins to investigate the death and finds a web of family intrigue. Suspicion has fallen on someone Cadfael is sure is innocent. (7.75 hrs. 6 cs.)
MPE017 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Ellis Peters
Read by Stephen Thorne. Winter, 1139: Brother Cadfael's tranquil life in the monastery gardens is interrupted by violent, mysterious happenings. Raging civil war has sent many refugees fleeing north, among them two orphans of a great family and their companion, a nun. But they seem to have disappeared somewhere in the wild winter landscape of frost and snowÑand Cadfael sets out to find them. (8.25 hrs. 8 cs.)
MPE018 / Buy $34.95 / Rent $13.75
Read by Samantha Shea. Jenny Cain was thrilled about the Liberty Harbor Restoration, a picturesque collection of shops, museums and restaurants. When a runaway truck barreled into the project committee, and then a wooden cross was raised in unholy wrath, it became clear that someone would go to any lengths to stop the project. Detective Geof Bushfield reeled in a suspect, but that was the only person about whose innocence Jenny was certain. (8.5 hrs. 6 cs.)
MPI001 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Sam Reaves
Read by Michael Hanson and Mary Dilts. Chicago cabbie/philosopher/Vietnam vet Cooper MacLeish is helping his reporter friend Moreland investigate a big scoop. He finds himself drawn into a circle of corruption and double-dealing involving the mayoral candidate, the local teamsters, and a tape that no one wants found. (10 hrs. 7 cs.)
MRE003 / Buy $33.95 / Rent $12.25
by Sam Reaves
Read by Michael Hanson and Mary Dilts. This is the first novel in the Cooper MacLeish series (although Bury It Deep was issued first on audio). Macleish, Vietnam vet and philosopher, surveys the mean streets of Chicago from his cab. Here he investigates the supposed suicide of his lost love, Vivian Horstmann. When unknown hit men try to end both her son's life and Cooper's own, he snaps into survival mode. (10.25 hrs. 7 cs.)
MRE004 / Buy $33.95 / Rent $13
by Ruth Rendell
Read by Donada Peters. Tancred House is home to an eccentric, aging, celebrity writer until the night when person or persons unknown slaughter Flory along with her husband and daughter, leaving alive only her granddaughter Daisy. Detective Chief Inspector Wexford is strangely drawn to Daisy, his fatherly affection for her heightened by a growing displeasure with his own daughter. (13.5 hrs. 9 cs.)
MRE006 / Buy $72 / Rent $14.50
by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
Read by Lindsay Crouse. Judge Lara Sanderstone is preparing for a sensational child-abuse trial when she hears that her sister and brother-in-law have been murdered, and that she is the killer's next target. Grieving, terrified, and angry, Lara battles to solve her sister's murder, save her life, protect her nephew and stop the killer. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MRO001 / Buy $16 / Rent $5.75
by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg
Read by the author. Toy Johnson swears that she left her body during her recent heart attack and travelled to Kansas to rescue a boy from a fire. Friends think she hallucinated, until Toy's image appears on TV showing the dramatic rescue. Toy is shocked into thinking she is a miracle-working angel, until murder charges are filed against her. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MRO002 / Buy $16.95 / Rent $5.75
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Read by Ian Carmichael and cast. Wimsey is drawn into a series of intriguing incidents in the remote village of Fenchurch St. Paul. A corpse appears in the church yard and lord Peter finds himself a student of the ancient knowledge and rituals of bellringing. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MSA001 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Read by Ian Carmichael. A collection of nine stories. Lord Peter Wimsey, Sayers's aristocratic, eccentric sleuth, retains his sardonic sense of humor while unravelling the most bizarre criminal conundrums. These stories include some of his most dazzling dénouements. (7 hrs. 6 cs.)
MSA002 / Buy $49.95 / Rent $12.25
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Read by Edward Petherbridge. Harriet Vane, a successful detective story writer, is on trial for the murder of her former lover. Enter Peter Wimsey. He hopes to prove that she is innocent. He has also fallen madly in love with her. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MSA003 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Read by Edward Petherbridge. Harriet Vane returns to Oxford for the annual "Gaudy" celebration to find poison pen letters instead of pleasant nostalgia. Peter Wimsey joins her to unravel a sad and ugly story of frustrated passion. Rumored to be partly autobiographical, this is Sayers's finest book, a delicious love story as well as a riveting mystery. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MSA004 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Read by Edward Petherbridge. When Harriet Vane's walking tour of England lands her face to face with a fresh corpse, it sends both her and her greatest admirer, Peter Wimsey, on an adventure of mystery. The police ruled it a suicide so the duo must first prove the crime, then find the criminal. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MSA005 / Buy $15.95 / Rent $5.75
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Read by Ian Carmichael. Lord Peter Wimsey, noted detective, scholar and bon vivant, calls upon all his skills when murder strikes very close to home. The victim is his sister's fiancé and the accused is the Duke of Denver, Peter's brother. As the Duke goes to trial for his life in the House of Lords, Peter and his man Bunter must come up with the real culprit before it is too late. (9.25 hrs. 8 cs.)
MSA007 / Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Josephine Tey
Read by Derek Jacobi .This is the fascinating search for the truth about Richard III. Was he the monster that Shakespeare portrayed or was he the victim of a smear job by the House of Lancaster? Tey's investigator is none other than her famous detective inspector Alan Grant, who takes on the project to lighten his boredom as he convalesces in hospital. A delight for history and mystery buffs alike. (5.5 hrs. 6 cs.)
MTE005 / Buy $53.95 / Rent $12.25
by Josephine Tey
Read by Carole Boyd. This is a fascinating account of an 18th century cause célèbre: a 15-year-old schoolgirl accused a respectable woman and her daughter of keeping her locked up in the attic of their large country house for a month, starving and beating her. (9.3 hrs. 8 cs.)
MTE001 / Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Josephine Tey
Read by Carole Boyd. Lucy Pym was pleased to be invited to give a psychology lecture at Leys Physical Training College. She was a bit overwhelmed by the vibrant health and beauty of the students, until a nasty accident forced her to limber up her intellect and track down a person with a very sick mind. (8 hrs. 6 cs.)
MTE002 / Buy $53.95 / Rent $12.25
by Josephine Tey
Read by Stephen Thorne Police inspector Alan Grant has gone to Scotland to recover from stress-induced claustrophobia. En route, a young man is found dead, next to him lying a newspaper that Alan picks up. On it are pencilled lines of poetry which haunt him until he is on the trail again, rather than on vacation. (7 hrs. 6 cs.)
MTE006 / Buy $53.95 / Rent $12.25
by Josephine Tey
Read by Carole Boyd. Soon after the death of his parents, young Patrick Ashby disappears without a trace. Nearly 10 years later, on the eve of Patrick's twin Simon's coming of age, a young man named Brat Farrar appears in the village. He looks just like Simon, and says he has come to claim the family inheritance. (8.25 hrs. 8 cs.)
MTE003 / Buy $69.95 / Rent $13.75
by Josephine Tey
Read by Stephen Thorne. It was all wrong that someone so young and pretty should be lying there when all the world was waking up to a brilliant day. Beached in her bright green swimsuit, the young film star was a long way now from the silver screen. And Inspector Grant of the Yard is not a little bemused as he saunters sceptically into the picture. (7 hrs. 6 cs.)
MTE004 / Buy $54.95 / Rent $12.25
by Ross Thomas
Read by Frank Muller. Winner of the Edgar for best mystery. The blast of a car bomb reverberates throughout this fast-paced, engrossing mystery about the death of a 28-year-old policewoman living beyond her means. Her brother, searching methodically for her killer, generates more intrigue. (8.5 hrs. 6 cs.)
MTH001 / Buy $42 / Rent $12.25
by Barbara Vine, aka Ruth Rendell
Read by Sophie Ward. When Vera Hillyard was hanged, the reason for it was hidden for decades behind a genteel veneer. England in the fifties was not kind to "women who erred," so they survived using any weapon they could. In this case, it was murder. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MVI001 / Buy $16.95 / Rent $5.75
by Barbara Vine, aka Ruth Rendell
Read by Laural Merlington. A finely crafted mystery and a disturbingly honest depiction of the kinship between love and madness. Genevieve Warner is taking care of Stella Newland, who is dying in a nursing home. When Genevieve confides in Stella about her recent love affair, Stella gives her the key to a secret house she owns. Gradually, she tells Genevieve the story of that house and her own erotic entanglement in adultery and worse, much worse. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MVI002 / Buy $16.95 / Rent $5.75
by Jill Paton Walsh
Read by Brigit Forsyth. Deceptively quiet, coolly competent Imogen Quy has a passion for the traditional, homely pursuit of quilt-making, which turns out to have an unexpected connection with a deadly secret. Her impecunious lodger Fran is delighted to have been hired to finish a biography of the late great mathematician Gideon Summerfield. He seemed to have been a safe, even boring, subjectÑso why have three previous biographers found it so hard to get the book finished? (7 hrs. 6 cs.)
by Valerie Wilson Wesley
Read by Angela Bassett. Tamara Hayle is a smarty, sexy, black, single mother and former cop, now a PI on her own in Newark, combining true grit and feminine wiles. When her dog of an ex-husband turns up with an urgent plea for help, Tamara can't turn him down. For no apparent reason, someone is killing his sons, one by one, and the police seem reluctant to believe the deaths are connected. Tamara believes, and sees that her son is one of the next at risk. (3 hrs. 2 cs.)
MWE001 / Buy $17 / Rent $5.75
by Gloria White
Read by Carol Cowan. Jogging along the edge of the bay one morning, San Francisco PI Ronnie Ventana stumbles onto the scene of a crime. The killer has seen her face and Ronnie identifies him as a political figure with enough clout to cover up anything. Now she's running for her life. (6.75 hrs. 5 cs.)
MWH001 / Buy $24.95 / Rent $11
by Gloria White
Read by Carol Cowan. Hard-boiled PI Ronnie Ventana is not thrilled to see her ex's friend Bink on her doorstep at 3:30 am, especially considering the four thugs and a femme fatale chasing him. The femme's string of well-connected lovers all have suddenly become rich, then died. Bink is next, with only the reluctant Ronnie to help. (8.25 hrs. 6 cs.)
MWH002 / Buy $29.95 / Rent $12.25
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