Audio - Crime 2002

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Colin Dexter The Riddle of the Third Mile Published March 2002 by Macmillan Audio at Ł8.99 ISBN: 0-333-90665 9
Read by Kevin Whately

`The thought suddenly occurred to Morse that this would be a marvellous time to murder a few of the doddery old bachelor dons. No wives to worry about their whereabouts; no landladies to whine about the unpaid rents. In fact, nobody would miss most of them at all. . .’

By July the Master of Lonsdale was concerned, but not yet worried.
Dr Browne-Smith had passed through the porter’s lodge at approximately 8.15 a.m. on the morning of Friday 11 July. And nobody had heard from him since.
Plenty of time to disappear, thought Morse. And plenty of time, too, for someone to commit murder . . .
Emilia Fox has appeared in a variety of theatre, film and television productions. Her television appearances include Pride and Prejudice, Stephen Poliakoff's Shooting the Past, and a starring role in Rebecca.
Kerry Shale has performed his acclaimed one-man shows around the world. Other theatre work includes Aunt Dan & Lemon, The Normal Heart, True West and The Odd Couple. His TV credits include Cracker, Sharpe’s Rifles and Sherlock Holmes. Films include Yentl, Little Shop of Horrors, Welcome to Sarajevo, 102 Dalmatians and Max. He has won three Sony awards for radio acting and writing.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs Abridged by Katrin Williams Produced by Alexa Moore
About The Author
Colin Dexter graduated from Cambridge University in 1953 and has lived in Oxford since 1966.
His first novel, Last Bus to Woodstock, was published in 1975 and there are now twelve novels in the Inspector Morse series, most recently The Daughters of Cain and Death is Now My Neighbour.
In 1989 The Wench is Dead was awarded a Gold Dagger by the Crime Writers' Association for best crime novel of the year, as was The Way Through the Woods in 1992, and Colin Dexter has also been awarded Silver Daggers for Service of all the Dead and The Dead of Jericho. Death is Now My Neighbor went straight to the top of the bestseller lists on first publication in 1996.
In 1997 Colin Dexter was awarded the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for outstanding services to crime literature.
The Inspector Morse novels have been adapted for the small screen, with huge success, in Carlton/Central Television's series starring John Thaw and Kevin Whately. The Wench is Dead is the last of the novels to be adapted, to be broadcast in November 1998.

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Michael Dibdin And Then You Die Published March 2002 by ISIS at Ł16.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Michael Tudor Barnes
An Aurelio Zen Mystery
Aurelio Zen of Rome’s élite Criminalpol is back, but nobody’s supposed to know it. After months in hospital recovering from a bomb attack on his car, he is lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan coast, waiting to testify in an anti-Mafia trial. Zen has clear instructions to sit back and enjoy the classic Italian beach holiday. But Zen is getting restless and, as an alarming number of people are dropping dead around him, it seems just a matter of time before the Mafia manage to finish the job they bungled months before on a lonely Sicilian road.
Abruptly, the pleasant monotony of beach life is cut short as Zen finds himself transported to a remote and strange world. But wherever he goes trouble follows. He must rely on his innate ability to navigate treacherous waters in order to stay alive.
After reading Classics at London University Michael Tudor Barnes trained at RADA for five years was a member of the National Theatre Company. He has also worked with the RSC, has played leading roles both home and abroad and has and over 600 radio broadcasts to his credit. Television work includes The Bill and Softly, Softly, but he is probably best known to viewers as Willy Roper in EastEnders.
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 6 hrs 50 mins
About The Author
Michael Dibdin was born in 1947, and attended schools in Scotland and Ireland and universities in England and Canada. He lives in Seattle and is married to the writer Katherine Beck. He is also the author of Ratking, which won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award for the Best Crime Novel of the Year. Michael Dibdin reviews regularly for the Independent on Sunday.

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Marjorie Eccles Untimely Graves Published April 2002 by Soundings at Ł17.99 Buy direct from Soundings: order number (UK) 0191 253 4155 N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Gordon Griffin
A DS Gil Mayo mystery
When the unidentifiable body of a woman is found floating in flooded uplands near an isolated farm, the press dub her the ‘Mystery Woman’.
As time goes on, Detective Superintendent Gil Mayo and his assistant, Inspector Abigail Moon, begin to fear the identity of the woman will never be discovered. But then the bursar of a public school, involved in a school controversy, is murdered at his desk and the killings appear to be linked.
As an unemployed ex-student, Cleo Atkins will do anything rather than take the safe secretarial position her mother has lined up for her, even taking a job with Maid to Order, a firm of cleaning contractors much in demand after the floods. Working with the team, Cleo comes across evidence from a totally unexpected source . . . ‘One of the stalwarts of British crime fiction’ Sunday Telegraph
After graduating from The Rose Bruford College, Gordon Griffin worked extensively in the theatre. On TV he has appeared in A Family at War, When the Boat Comes In and Playschool and more recently The Fragile Heart and Byker Grove. His film credits include The Likely Lads, Killing Time and The Gingerbread House. He has recorded almost 200 audiobooks including an award-winning recording of A Tale of Two Cities.
8 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs
About The Author
Marjorie Eccles spent her childhood in Yorkshire and on the Northumbrian coast, where the urge to write first gripped her. Her writing career only began seriously much later, however, when she started writing short stories and suspense novels, written under a pseudonym, all of which were also serialized in women’s magazines.
When she subsequently turned to crime and began writing the Gil Mayo Mystery series, featuring Superintendent Mayo and his assistant, Inspector Abigail Moon, she chose to set them in a small town on the edge of the Black Country. ‘I lived there for over thirty years and came to know and love the area and to admire the character of the people who lived there, so it seemed quite natural to use it as a setting for my new series. The town I use may have a fictional name, Lavenstock, but it is in reality an amalgam of several places in the Midlands where I have lived.’
Her first crime novel in the Mayo series was published in the USA in 1988 and has recently been republished over here by Constable. In between there have been thirteen more, and two non-series books, one of which, Echoes Of Silence, is set in her native Yorkshire.
Short stories were the first things she ever wrote, and remain her first love, and many of her crime stories use the unusual places abroad which she visited when she travelled extensively with her husband on business. These stories are published in magazines and also in collections such as The Crime Writers’ Association annual anthology. In America they can be found in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, the Malice Domestic anthologies and others. In 1998, she was awarded the Malice Domestic Agatha Christie Short Story Styles Award.
She has one grown up son and one grandson, and now lives with her husband in a small village on the edge of the Chilterns, and writes full time. ‘I love reading and listening to music,’ she says, ‘and gardening, which is a particular passion of mine when I can find time - just as well, since we have a large garden and no help’
Her latest book, Killing A Unicorn, which is a non-series, is published by Constable in September 2002. Untimely Graves and Echoes Of Silence will shortly be published by St Martin’s Press in the U.S.A.

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Ben Elton Dead Famous Published June 2002 by ISIS at Ł18.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by David Thorpe
One House. Ten contestants. Thirty cameras. Forty microphones.
Yet again the public gorges its voyeuristic appetite as another group of unknown and unremarkable people submit themselves to the brutal exposure of the televised real-life soap opera, HouseArrest.
Everybody knows the rules: total strangers are forced to live together while the rest of the country watches them do it. Who will crack first? Who will have sex and with whom? Whom will the public love and whom will it hate? All the usual questions. And then, suddenly, there are some new ones.
Who is the murderer? How did he or she manage to kill under the constant gaze of the thirty television cameras? Why did they do it? And who will be next?
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 12 hrs
About The Author
Ben Elton was born in Catford, South London, the youngest of four. He went to Godalming Grammar School, joined amateur dramatic societies and wrote his first play at 15. He wanted to be a stagehand at the local theatre, but instead did A-Level Theatre Studies and studied drama at Manchester University in 1977. After graduating in 1980, he started on his career as a stand-up comedian, joining Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson at the Comedy Store. From there he wrote and acted in television, wrote novels, plays and screenplays. He currently lives in Notting Hill, West London with his wife, Sophie Gare, whom he met in Australia while on tour.

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Janet Evanovich Hard Eight Published November 2002 by ISIS at Ł17.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Lorelei King
War has been declared: there’s a missing child and a killer rabbit on the loose.
Bombshell bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back, sharper and more hilarious than ever. But this time she has an assignment with a difference. Her mother’s neighbour Mabel has a granddaughter and her child who’ve disappeared after a nasty divorce battle. Trouble is, they’ve broken the court’s custody bond -which was guaranteed with Mabel’s house - and Stepanie’s mother wants her to find them.
Stephanie hates mixing work with her family, and she’s no private investigator, but she never could say no to her mother. And the case gives her another excuse to ask Ranger for help! Stephanie Plum once more rises to a challenge in her eighth adventure - sharper and more hilarious than ever before.
Lorelei King was born in Pennsylvania. Once described as 'the best-known American voice on Radio 4', she has played roles as varied as Patricia Cornwell's forensic detective Kay Scarpetta and Groucho Marx's sidekick. Film work includes The Saint and Notting Hill; on television she is a running character (Natalie Lawrence) in the acclaimed Cold Feet, and she has appeared in Jonathan Creek, Chef, The Comic Strip, Birds of a Feather and Rumpole of the Bailey. On stage she has acted in such classics as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Blues for Mr Charlie and Death of a Salesman. She was nominated as Performer of the Year at the 1999 Talkies (the audiobook industry awards).
7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 30 mins
About The Author
Janet Evanovich now lives in New Hampshire but, like Stephanie Plum, grew up in New Jersey.
She has won a major crime fiction award for each of her Stephanie Plum novels so far: One for the Money was presented with the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Award and the Dilys Award, Two for the Dough won the CWA Last Laugh Award and Three to Get Deadly was awarded the CWA Silver Dagger for 1997.

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Janet Evanovich Seven Up Published August 2002 by ISIS at Ł16.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Lorelei King
The bombshell bounty hunter, Stephanie Plum, thinks she’s after an easy target: a senior citizen charged with smuggling contraband cigarettes. But she and Lula get more than they bargained for - a corpse in the woodshed and an old man on the lam.
But Stephanie’s mind easily strays to other matters. She has two proposals to consider: vice cop Joe Morelli is proposing marriage and fellow bounty hunter Ranger is proposing a single perfect night, dusk to dawn.
In the 7th Plum adventure from the funniest crime writer in modern fiction, anything can happen, and everything does.
Lorelei King was born in Pennsylvania. Once described as 'the best-known American voice on Radio 4', she has played roles as varied as Patricia Cornwell's forensic detective Kay Scarpetta and Groucho Marx's sidekick. Film work includes The Saint and Notting Hill; on television she is a running character (Natalie Lawrence) in the acclaimed Cold Feet, and she has appeared in Jonathan Creek, Chef, The Comic Strip, Birds of a Feather and Rumpole of the Bailey. On stage she has acted in such classics as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Blues for Mr Charlie and Death of a Salesman. She was nominated as Performer of the Year at the 1999 Talkies (the audiobook industry awards).
6 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs 10 mins
About The Author
Janet Evanovich now lives in New Hampshire but, like Stephanie Plum, grew up in New Jersey.
She has won a major crime fiction award for each of her Stephanie Plum novels so far: One for the Money was presented with the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Award and the Dilys Award, Two for the Dough won the CWA Last Laugh Award and Three to Get Deadly was awarded the CWA Silver Dagger for 1997.

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Janet Evanovich Seven Up Published February 2002 by Hodder Headline Audio at Ł7.99 ISBN: 1-84032-
Read by Lorelei King
It takes balls to be a bounty hunter… and Stephanie Plum doesn't care whose.
Stephanie Plum is back, in yet another explosive adventure packed full of murder, kidnap and extortion.
It seems that the only possible complication that Stephanie faces when going after Eddie DeChooch, is that he is dating her grandma. When she and Lula show up at his house it and he disappears, leaving a corpse in the woodshed, it becomes clear that this is not such a simple case.
He may be an old man, but his years in the mob have made him trigger happy, and to top it all there’s his involvement with ‘MoonMan’ Dunphy and Dougie ‘The Dealer’ Kruper (Stephanie’s highschool classmates). They’ve been sucked into an operation which is much more than simple smuggling, and when they disappear Stephanie goes into high-octane search mode.
As if she didn’t have enough to worry about, there are also two proposals to consider, one of marriage and the other of a single perfect night…
Lorelei King was born in Pennsylvania. Once described as 'the best-known American voice on Radio 4', she has played roles as varied as Patricia Cornwell's forensic detective Kay Scarpetta and Groucho Marx's sidekick. Film work includes The Saint and Notting Hill; on television she is a running character (Natalie Lawrence) in the acclaimed Cold Feet, and she has appeared in Jonathan Creek, Chef, The Comic Strip, Birds of a Feather and Rumpole of the Bailey. On stage she has acted in such classics as One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Blues for Mr Charlie and Death of a Salesman. She was nominated as Performer of the Year at the 1999 Talkies (the audiobook industry awards).
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 2 hrs Abridged by Peter Mackie Produced by Heavy Entertainment
About The Author
Janet Evanovich now lives in New Hampshire but, like Stephanie Plum, grew up in New Jersey.
She has won a major crime fiction award for each of her Stephanie Plum novels so far: One for the Money was presented with the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Award and the Dilys Award, Two for the Dough won the CWA Last Laugh Award and Three to Get Deadly was awarded the CWA Silver Dagger for 1997.

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Linda Fairstein The Deadhouse Published August 2002 by ISIS at Ł18.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Laurence Bouvard
University professor Lola Dakota has suffered at the hands of her abusive husband too long and when the police get wind of his plan to hire a hitman to kill her, she agrees to fake her own murder. The sting seems successful and her husband is arrested. However, a couple of hours later, Lola is dead again, this time for good. Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Cooper is brought in to help NYPD detectives find the killer. They are led into the academic world at King’s College and find it riddled with petty jealousies, love affairs and swindled funds. Alex uncovers tales of missing students, drug dealers and something referred to as the Deadhouse, which take her to an island just off Manhattan where Lola’s department was researching the remains of a Victorian penitentiary, hospitals and lunatic asylums . . .
Originally from Massachusetts, Laurence Bouvard trained at LAMDA and made her professional debut creating the role of Maria Elena Holly in the original cast of the West End musical, Buddy. Her other theatre credits include leading roles in Cyrano de Bergerac, Wuthering Heights, Speed-the-Plow, and Persephone in Stravinsky’s Persephone at the BBC Proms. Her appearances on TV include EastEnders and The Tomorrow People.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs 10 mins
About The Author
Linda Fairstein is is an Assistant District Attorney and head of the Manhattan Sex Crimes Unit. Her involvement with such cases as the Preppy Murder and the Central Park Jogger over the past two decades has gained her the reputation of one of the city's toughest prosecutors. She lives in Manhattan with husband.

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Jasper Fforde The Eyre Affair Published October 2002 by ISIS at Ł18.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Gabrielle Kruger
There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where Thursday Next is a literary detective without equal, fear, or boyfriend. Thursday is on the trail of the villainous Acheron Hades who has been kidnapping characters from works of fiction and holding them to ransom. Jane Eyre herself has been plucked from the novel of the same name, and Thursday must find a way into the book to repair the damage.
She also has to find time to halt the Crimean conflict, persuade the man she loves to marry her, rescue her aunt from inside a Wordsworth poem and figure out who really wrote Shakespeare’s plays. Aided and abetted by a cast of characters that includes her time-travelling father, Jack Schitt of the all-powerful Goliath Corporation, a pet dodo named Pickwick and Edward Rochester himself, Thursday embarks on an adventure that will take your breath away.
`Forget all the rules of time, space; and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure’ Sunday Telegraph
‘Ingenious - I’ll watch Jasper Fforde nervously’ Terry Pratchett
‘The Eyre Affair is a silly book for smart people: postmodernism played as raw, howling farce’ Independent
‘Quirky, hilarious, charming, inventive, moving, Fforde writes wonderfully’ Manchester Evening News
Having graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1998, Gabrielle Kruger trained in acting at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has been in several short films and fringe plays in London, including Light Entertainment, a black comedy she co-wrote, produced and acted in at the Barons Court Theatre, Hammersmith. She is currently co-writing a new sitcom.
9 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 20 mins
About The Author
Jasper Fforde has been writing purely for his own pleasure for the past ten years, and is delighted that this has all changed. Just recently he has traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out of the window and arranging words on a page. He lives and writes in Wales and has a passion for aviation. The Eyre Affair is his first novel. Visit the author’s website: www.jasperfforde.com

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Ian Fleming Diamonds are Forever Published November 2002 by Penguin Audio at Ł0.00 ISBN: 0 14 180414 9
Read by Rufus Sewell
CD Edition
Tiffany Case is the sort of beautiful, devil-may-care blonde who could get a man into deep trouble - if he wanted.
She stands between James Bond and the leaders of a diamond smuggling ring that stretches from Africa via London to the States. Bond uses her to infiltrate this gang, but once in America the hunter becomes the hunted. Bond is in real danger until help comes from an unlikely quarter -the ice-maiden herself...
‘James Bond is one of the most cunningly synthesized heroes in crime fiction’ Observer
Rufus Sewell has worked in film, theatre and television, appearing in Middlemarch for the BBC and, more recently, in the title role of Luther at the Royal National Theatre. He is perhaps best known for his parts in the films Cold Comfort Farm, The Woodlanders, Dark City and A Knight’s Tale.
3 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 2 hrs 45 mins Abridged by Andrew Simpson Produced by Jeff Capel

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Ian Fleming From Russia with Love Published November 2002 by Penguin Audio at Ł0.00 ISBN: 0 14 180416 5
Read by Rufus Sewell
CD Edition
‘Slim build; eyes: blue; hair: black; expert pistol shot, boxer, knife thrower; does not use disguises’ Every major foreign government has file on James Bond.
Now Russia’s deadly SMERSH organization has targeted him for elimination – they have the prefect bait in ravishing agent Tatiana Romanova. Her mission is to lure Bond to Istanbul, allowing her superiors to do the rest. Bond, however, walks willingly into the trap, leading to a deadly game of cross and double cross.
‘Mr Fleming’s tautest, most exciting, and most brilliant tale’ Times Literary Supplement
Rufus Sewell has worked in film, theatre and television, appearing in Middlemarch for the BBC and, more recently, in the title role of Luther at the Royal National Theatre. He is perhaps best known for his parts in the films Cold Comfort Farm, The Woodlanders, Dark City and A Knight’s Tale.
3 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs Abridged by Yvonne Antrobus Produced by Jeff Capel

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Glen David Gold Carter Beats the Devil Published October 2002 by ISIS at Ł22.99 Buy direct from ISIS: freephone order number (UK) 0800 731 5637 or click on the Order button to visit their website N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
Read by Jeff Harding
On 2nd August 1923, master magician Charles Carter makes the most daring performance of his life. Its climax features a battle with the Devil himself, and this evening the President of the United States, Warren G. Harding, is taking part. Two hours later, President Harding is dead and Carter is the target of the Secret Services.
Charles Carter is ‘Carter the Great’, a name given him by supreme showman Harry Houdini. Carter had to become a magician; only at the moment of the performance, when an audience is brought together by a single experience, can Carter defeat his crippling fear of loneliness. But with every step into the 20th Century the stakes are growing higher. Science and the cinema are fast out-stripping even the master magician and that single magic moment. Hunted by those who believe him to be a murderer; he nevertheless rises again and again to delight his audience.
Jeff Harding was born in Massachusetts, U.S.A.
He has worked extensively in television, with recent roles in The Fast Show and Trail of Guilt. Jeff also played Father Buzz Cagney in Father Ted. Jeff has appeared in feature films including Tomorrow Never Dies.
16 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 20 hrs 55 mins
About The Author
Glen David Gold was born in Hollywood and raised in San Francisco where he began his lifelong love of the strange and dazzling aspects of history. He received his MFA for creative writing at the University of California at Irvine and has written for newspapers, film, and television. He currently lives in Southern California with his wife, Alice Sebold, and a bevy of domestic animals.

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