Crime Anthology

The Crime of the Brigadier is a short story written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in The Cosmopolitan in December 1899. 10th story of the Gerard saga.

These funny, loving, courageous, and sometimes frightening characters prove that behind every crime, there is divine comedy.

From a simple robbery gone horribly wrong to a grisly murder in a secret love dungeon, this stellar collection of crime fiction short stories showcases some of today's finest voices of color. Edited by Wall Street Journal best-selling author Abby L. Vandiver, this thrilling anthology will keep you on the edge of your seat. Includes "Midnight Escapade" by Jennifer Chow, "Lucky Thirteen" by Tracy Clark, "Murderers' Feast" by H.C. Chan, "In the Matter of Mabel and Bobby Jefferson" by Christopher Chambers, and many more.

Bodies surface and disappear, seduce and corrupt in these original stories by best-selling, award-winning female crime writers. Keep your eyes peeled, your ears cocked and your wits about you as 20 deliciously twisted tales take you to surprising places....

"The Big Guys" - Flash fiction, winner of the Derringer Award. "A Fistful of Cozy" - A satire of the mystery cozy genre. "Cleansing" - An ancient crime of biblical proportions. "Lying Eyes" - Solve it yourself, given the clues."Perfect Plan" - Another solve it yourself. Don't you remember One Minute Mysteries and Encyclopedia Brown? "Piece of Cake" - Another solve it yourself, originally featured in Woman's World.

Mysteries of Golfton Hills is a set of sixteen gripping psychological suspense, crime, and thriller audio short stories by bestselling author R. Barri Flowers, set in the fictional town of Golfton Hills, Florida, situated in the Panhandle.

Die besten und berühmtesten Stories von Edgar Allan Poe sind in dieser riesigen Hörbuch-Box versammelt - aufgelistet nach dem Datum ihres Entstehens! Poes erste Geschichte "Metzengerstein" aus dem Jahre 1832 ist ebenso dabei wie eine seiner letzten, "Hoppfrosch" aus dem Jahre 1849, kurz vor seinem Tode. 30 Meisterwerke aus der Feder des Großmeisters der dunklen Romantik.

Joan and David Shannon were swingers who met other married couples for "sex parties" through the Internet. David would introduce his wife to Jeffrey WIlson and the two quickly fell in love. David grew jealous and warned his wife to stop seeing Wilson. Joan, however, wanted to keep seeing her swinger friend. In a bizarre series of events, she enlisted the aid of her 15-year-old daughter Elizabeth to kill David.

With this critically acclaimed debut collection, Frank Bill announces himself as an author of fiercely defined vision. In these vivid tales, Bill’s southern Indiana proves a literary destination of immense nuance, even as his mostly working-class characters cry out in voices that cannot be denied.

Crime Never Pays runs 1 hour and 57 minutes and consists of the following short 10 short stories: "A Perfect Match," "Cellblock," "Cocaine," "Dog Day Morning," "Is It Safe?," "Loan Shark," "New On The Job," "Stella And The Chief," "The Fish Tie Strangler," and "Trick Or Treat."

Six of Marco Fontana's early cases show some of the forces that helped shape the young P.I. In high school, Fontana discovers that he has a knack for crime solving - not only that, he likes it. When his English teacher is accused of murdering the school disciplinarian, Marco takes it upon himself to investigate. Some years later, after Marco has explored his options, we find him in his first office on Latimer and Twelfth. Trouble easily manages to find him there.

A collection of short stories by Tom Raley. Each story follows a detective as they work against the clock, against ruthless killers, and against impossible odds to solve each case before more innocent people are forced to endure more pain. Each clue, each tidbit of information can mean the difference between success and failure, between life and death.

Cheryl Belzer is starting a new job, working for the best private detective in the city who retired from the police department after suffering a horrific injury. He also just happens to be a self-proclaimed sexist. These stories follow two of the earliest cases Cheryl works with Timber.

On December 11, 1998, Lynsey Quy called her mother and asked if she could visit for tea. She got to her parents’ home in the afternoon, and the two spent the afternoon talking about various topics, with Christmas the main focus of Lynsey’s attention. Lynsey was always excited about holidays, and she was looking forward to the festive season. They discussed gifts for the kids and activities Lynsey was planning. As Lynsey left, she promised to keep in touch with her mother. That was the last time Linda saw her daughter alive.

Helen was just 17 - she would be 67 at the time of writing - when she was last seen. The teenager was not having a good time. Her open face, late-'60s blond bob, and slightly prominent front teeth made her look younger than her youth. She had a slightly drooping eye which made her face particularly notable. At around five feet five inches tall and weighing in close to 125 pounds, in other respects, she was a typical teen.

No parent can conceive of finding that their 16-year-old daughter has been murdered. For two days Beverly Jarosz’s parents, Thaddeus and Eleanor, along with her sister Carol, held out hope that there would be a quick solution to the crime. Those 48 hours must have flashed around them; a whirl of anger, guilt, fear, and horror. Each minute simultaneously lasting hours but disappearing as soon as it arrived.

On July 15, Gianni Versace left his house in Miami Beach, Casa Casuarina, at around 8:30 a.m. and headed to News Café to pick up his morning coffee and a bunch of magazines. He walked home, and as he was opening the gate to his mansion at around 8:55 a.m., witnesses stated that they saw a man rushing over to Versace and shot him twice in the back.

Robert Charles Browne, a 68-year-old Louisiana native, who serves a double-life sentence at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility may just be one of the most prolific murderers in American history. However, some of the self-professed serial killer’s uncorroborated claims leaves plenty of room for speculation about the cold cases that remain unsolved in the wake of his imprisonment.

A dying billionaire offers Tanner contracts on numerous targets, people who are the worst of the worst. Instead of going after them alone, Tanner gets help from a few of his friends.

This second and exciting volume of original crime mystery audio provides four hours and another eight stories filled with menace, murder, and mayhem from Ed Gorman, Robert J. Randisi, Christine Matthews, Benjamin M. Schutz, Maxine O'Callaghan, Marlys Millhiser, Marcia Muller, and John Lutz.