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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 detectiveThe golden age of murder: the mystery of the writers who invented the modern detective story
By Martin Edwards. 2015
Study of an elite, mysterious social network of crime writers called the Detection Club, which began in 1930, and the…
group's continuing influence on print and film storytelling. Founding members Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, and Julian Symons presided over the club for nearly forty years. 2015The cook, the crook, and the real estate tycoon: a novel of contemporary China
By Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Liu Zhenyun. 2015
Liu Yuejin, a worksite cook and a thief, has his pack with money stolen. While searching for it, he discovers…
another bag which contains a USB card detailing corruption of high officials and putting him in danger. Translated from the original 2007 Chinese edition. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2015Troubled daughters, twisted wives: stories from the trailblazers of domestic suspense
By Sarah Weinman. 2013
Collection of fourteen previously published stories of crime fiction by women from the 1940s to the 1970s. Includes "The Heroine"…
by Patricia Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr. Ripley (DB 50315), where a young woman is hired to be a nanny and dreams of being more. Some violence. 2013Haiti noir (Akashic Noir)
By Edwidge Danticat, Madison Smartt Bell, Mark Kurlansky, Katia D. Ulysse, Évelyne Trouillot, Rodney Saint-Éloi, Yanick Lahens, Gary Victor, Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Ibi Aanu Zoboi, Marie Lily Cerat, M. J. Fievre, Josaphat-Robert Large, Nadine Pinede, Patrick Sylvain, Marie Ketsia Theodore-Pharel, Marvin Victor. 2011
Edwidge Danticat is both editor and contributor in this anthology of eighteen stories written around the time of Haiti's devastating…
2010 earthquake. In Ibi Aanu Zoboi's "The Harem" a playboy tends to his three lovers amid the destruction. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011The Sookie Stackhouse companion (Sookie Stackhouse/True Blood)
By Charlaine Harris. 2011
Features the novella Small-Town Wedding, in which Sookie and her boss Sam, a shape-shifter, attend nuptials in Sam's Texas hometown.…
Includes trivia and fan questions, recipes, and a guide to Sookie's world of vampires, werewolves, and fairies. 2011Sherlock Holmes: the unauthorized biography
By Nick Rennison, Nicholas Rennison. 2007
Biography of the fictional Victorian-era sleuth compiles and expands on events in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novels and short stories,…
from Holmes's birth in 1854 to his death in 1929. Focuses on his years as a consulting detective and his friendship with Dr. John Watson. 2005Talking about detective fiction
By P. D. James. 2009
British author of The Private Patient (DB 67910) and other mysteries examines the genre of detective fiction. Discusses the style,…
plotting techniques, protagonists, and talent of past and current authors, including Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, and Josephine Tey. Also describes her own methods. 2009