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Night beat: pay up or die (CLASSIC RADIO COLLECTION #bk. 10)
By Frank Lovejoy. 2019
Charlie owed Joe Sligo $3000 from his gambling and Sligo's motto was pay up or die. Charlie has a family…
and kids to think about and has been in debt for 6 months. Now he turns to Randy Stone for help. Randy Stone knows that the police are looking for Sligo and tells Charlie his only hope is to let the police know where Sligo isNight beat: a byline for Frank (CLASSIC RADIO COLLECTION #bk. 9)
By Frank Lovejoy. 2019
It was a busy Wednesday night. Barnes on the city desk asked me to lend a hand and I filled…
in for a couple of hours. I'd just finished taking notes over the headphones when the switchboard buzzed me with a personalNight beat: otto the music man (CLASSIC RADIO COLLECTION #bk. 8)
By Frank Lovejoy. 2019
Night is when the city comes alive full of promise. Randy stood on the corner watching the world go by…
cataloguing each and every person and happening when a car came by and clipped a guy holding a black case, knocking him over. Randy went to help him but he was ok and disappeared into the street into a bar called the Glamour Palace. Randy followed him realizing that he had the guy's hatNight beat: the will of Mrs. Orloff (CLASSIC RADIO COLLECTION #bk. 7)
By Frank Lovejoy. 2019
It wasn't much of a story just an obituary, Mrs. Martha Orloff, age 62, scrub woman, death by natural causes,…
heart failure. But what's natural by killing yourself with a scrubbing brush. It would have only been a two-line obit if the other scrubwoman hadn't stopped him on his way out of the buildingNight beat: Molly Keller (CLASSIC RADIO COLLECTION #bk. 6)
By Frank Lovejoy. 2019
Randy didn't have to go and look for his story tonight; it came in over the Teletype. Charles Keller died…
today in the state penitentiary after serving 14 years of a twenty-year sentence for armed robbery. His wife, Molly Keller, a quiet woman worked in the offices of the Chicago Star as a humble cleaner. Keller died still denying any knowledge of the $650,000 payroll robbery in the sensation of 14 years agoNight beat: Vincent and the painter (CLASSIC RADIO COLLECTION #bk. 5)
By Russell Hughes. 2019
Alfred Wyman is a strange artist who wants to kill the wealthy Miss Gleason because she killed Vincent. Just when…
Randy has given up on a story for the night, he stumbles across an old man in a dispute with a taxi driver over the fare. The old man has no money so Randy pays the fare but is surprised when the gentle looking old man, Alfred Wyman, says he has to go to kill Miss GleesonNight beat: Harlan Matthews stamp dealer (CLASSIC RADIO COLLECTION #bk. 4)
By Larry Marcus. 2019
Harlan Matthews, a stamp dealer with memories of a murder he committed long ago, attempts murder, suicide and more! An…
alienist and Randy Stone try to help. The system cue has been deleted. Randy Stone covers the night beat for the Chicago Star. Stories begin in many different ways. This one began and ended with a confession ... a confession to the crime of murderNight beat: the girl from Kansas (CLASSIC RADIO COLLECTION #bk. 3)
By Larry Marcus. 2019
A story of young love and old death. A girl from Kansas named Linda Johnson has been arrested for grand…
theft. She's bailed out by someone she doesn't even know. Randy Stone covers the night beat for the Chicago Star searching through the city for strange stories waiting for him in the darkness. This one began with young love and ended with old deathNight beat: the black cat (CLASSIC RADIO COLLECTION #bk. 2)
By Frank Lovejoy. 2019
Night beat: Marty (CLASSIC RADIO COLLECTION #bk. 1)
By Frank Lovejoy. 2019
Dragnet: big job (DRAGNET #bk. 1)
By Jack Webb. 2019
The Police receive information that an escaped criminal, called Alfred Garvey, is hiding out in the City. While searching for…
him at a hotel Garvey shoots an off-duty cop, and friend of Friday and Romero, John Maxwell. He was about to go on vacation but decided to visit Friday and Romero first. Soon a Police manhunt is launched to find GarveyThe adventures of Philip Marlowe
By Gene Levitt. 2020
Philip Marlowe was a fictional private eye created by author Raymond Chandler. He was first seen as portrayed by Humphrey…
Bogart in the 1939 classic feature "The Big Sleep". The fictional detective was introduced to the radio in 1947 and, by 1949, was the most popular radio detectiveLittle faith: a novel
By Michael Simon. 2006
It's 1995 and Texas has a new governor, the heir to a political dynasty. As politicians and lobbyists converge on…
the capital, a former child star and recent porn actress is found murdered and a thirteen-year-old boy is sent out to make a treacherous living on the streets. All this is just some of what Dan Reles, Austin Homicide's only New Yorker and only Jew has to deal with. Violence, strong language, and explicit descriptions of sex. 2006Voiceover artist
By Dave Reidy. 2015
Seven year old Simon Davies gets teased for stuttering, so he stops speaking. As an adult, he masters techniques to…
control his voice and pursues his dream of becoming a voice over artist. Meanwhile, his more confident brother, Connor tries to break into television, after years of silence, Simon tries to reconcile with his brother. UnratedThe astonishing stereoscope: the Hall Family chronicles (Hall Family Chronicles)
By Jane Langton. 2001
Young Edward Hall receives from his uncle Prince Krishna a set of five stereoscope cards labeled Temples of the World.…
When Eddy grabs the tasseled rope in the picture, he finds himself inside the stereoscope world, and his sister Eleanor follows quickly after him. For grades 4-7. 1971Pop princess
By Rachel Cohn. 2004
Yearning to escape the small town where her family retreated after the death of her sister Lucky, fifteen-year-old outcast Wonder…
Blake gets a record contract from her sister's former manager. But Wonder soon realizes the life of a star is anything but glamorous. Strong language. For senior high readers. 2004Hotel Paradise
By Martha Grimes, Jeanette Winterson. 1996
Twelve-year-old Emma narrates this mystery and coming-of-age novel as she searches for the truth about the death of another young…
girl forty years earlier. The setting--a dilapidated ninety-eight-room hotel on the edge of a woods near an Appalachian lake--and several eccentric inhabitants of the area add to the atmosphere of intrigueClabbered dirt, sweet grass
By Gary Paulsen, Ruth Wright Paulsen. 1992
This story is told by an old man sitting on the back of his dead horse in the woods of…
Minnesota. He talks of the progression of life on his farm in the years before mechanization. Spring with its new births and plantings, summer plowing and canning, fall harvesting and hunting, and finally winter with its wood gathering and logging. And the chores--always the chores. Some violence and some strong languageDishonour in Camp 133 (The Sergeant Neumann Mysteries #2)
By Wayne Arthurson. 2021
Sergeant Neumann and the inmates of Camp 133 are back! Even thousands of miles from the front lines, locked into…
a Canadian prisoner-of-war camp at the base of the Canadian Rockies, death isn't far away. For August Neumann, head of Camp Civil Security and decorated German war hero, this is the reality. Chef Schlipal has been found dead in Mess #3, a knife in his back. Now it's up to Neumann to find out what would drive the men of the camp, brothers-in-arms, to turn on each other. He's learned, of course, that beneath the veneer of duty and honour, the camp is anything but civil. When the trail of clues ends at the edge of the prison yard, Neumann must consider the crime bigger than the camp. Is someone getting out of the prison? If so, can he follow? If he can't, he might have to live with the dishonour of Camp 133.