Audio - Crime 2002

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Tangled Web UK: New Audio - Crime Titles 2002

Margery Allingham The Tiger in the Smoke Published February 2002 by Penguin Audio at Ł8.99 ISBN: 0 14 180277 4
Read by Crawford Logan
Mild-mannered amateur detective Albert Campion finds himself and his family caught up in a terrifying series of events.
Meg Elginbrodde has believed herself to be a widow for five years. Yet since she announced her intention to remarry, she has been receiving some very odd communications: photographs of her husband, Martin, looking very much alive. But why? Is it blackmail, or something more sinister? Chief Inspector Luke joins forces with Campion to uncover the truth. And, amid the gloom of London’s November smog, they begin to draw the net round a man who’s `killing mad’.
Crawford Logan has appeared in numerous theatre productions, both West End and repertory. He has worked extensively on radio and television and his other readings for Penguin Audiobooks include The Woodlanders and Penguin English Verse.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs Abridged by Neville Teller Produced by Anne Rosenfeld

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David Armstrong Until Dawn Tomorrow Published September 2002 by Soundings at Ł16.99 Buy direct from Soundings: order number (UK) 0191 253 4155 N.B. P&P Ł2.50 or Ł3.50 for two or more titles
About The Author
In his Own Words...
I was born in Birmingham. Primary school was unremarkable but, having passed the entrance exam, secondary school was an unmitigated disaster: I went into a comatose state for five years and emerged with no qualifications at all.
I did lots of different jobs, before going ‘on the road' with a friend. There was no Crimewatch in those days, and people still gave lifts to people carrying rucksacks and sleeping bags, even guitars.
It was March and there was snow in the field outside Shepton Mallet where we pitched our tent. The next night we spent most of our budget staying in a Bed and Breakfast. Within a week, we were back home in Birmingham, but planning an assault on Europe.
I eventually went ‘back to school’, got married, and had two children. After doing an English degree in Cardiff, I spent the next fifteen years teaching English at a college of FE in Shropshire.
The year that Night’s Black Agents was accepted for publication, I resigned from teaching. Since then, I’ve had four more books published, Less Than Kind, Until Dawn Tomorrow, Thought For The Day and the new one, published in November 2001, Small Vices.
I’ve published poetry and short stories, as well as written features for The Times, Daily Telegraph, London Evening Standard, Manchester Evening News and Sunday Times.
I recently appeared on Radio Four’s Front Row, reading an extract from Don’t Forget to Write, a non-fiction work about the writing business and, earlier this year, on the same programme, was in discussion with Mark Lawson about the plight of the ‘mid-list’ writer.
In May, 2001, a dramatised version of Don’t Forget to Write was given its theatrical premiere.

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Jake Arnott He Kills Coppers Published February 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 Stephen Greif
August 1966 - the long hot summer of World Cup euphoria is abruptly shattered when three policemen are gunned down in a West London Street. It is a senseless crime that shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself and brings an end to the victory celebrations. Yet it also marks a beginning for three men whose fates are inextricably bound up with the event and its consequences which come to a head thirty years on:
Frank Taylor: an ambitious detective struggling with the conflict between career and conscience as he is drawn into corruption
Tony Meehan: a gutter-press journalist with a nose for a nasty story who uses scandal as a cover for his own dark secrets
Billy Porter: a disaffected petty thief haunted by a violent past and driven to commit the ultimate crime eulogised by the terrace chant:
Billy Porter is our friend,
He Kills Coppers
A multi-award winning RADA Honours graduate, Stephen Greif has worked for many years with the RSC and the National Theatre in productions including Saturday, Sunday, Monday (nominated Best Actor, Critics Circle), and Death of a Salesman (Olivier Award nominee). His many West End productions include the recent Fallen Angels. He counts among his wealth of TV and film work roles in Shackleton and documentaries Serenghetti Burning and the first Neighbours from Hell. Book narrations include the Phillip Pullman trilogy.
9 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 11 hrs 15 mins
About The Author
Jake Arnott was born in 1961, and lives in London. His first novel, The Long Firm, was published in 1999 to huge public and critical acclaim and is now being made into a television series by the BBC.

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Andrea Badenoch Loving Geordie Published October 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 Patricia Jones
A disturbing and powerful coming-of-age story
It is August 1960 and Glue Terrace, overlooking the River Tyne; is due to be demolished. The residents themselves have already been shifted. In the midst of this desolation lives fifteen-year-old Leslie, whose childhood is rapidly being snatched from him.
Then in a derelict building, identical twins are found dead. The house had been their playground. But now they are lying side by side, like two sleeping angels on a tomb. Suspicion immediately falls on Geordie. But Leslie is convinced of his brother’s innocence and is determined to prove it.
Patricia Jones has had a varied acting career. Theatre work includes An Inspector Calls, Murder in the Red Barn and Strippers, although she is perhaps best-known for her role of Jean Turnbull in the long-running children’s TV serves, Byker Grove.
8 Cassettes Running Time: 10 hrs 45 mins
About The Author
Andrea Badenoch lives in Newcastle. She lectures part-time and co-edits Writing Women, an annual anthology of new voices.

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John Baker King Of The Streets 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 Cornelius Garrett
Sam Turner has more than enough on his plate. He is helping the woman from Scottish Widows track the murderer of her husband and is investigating the death of a teenage runaway. That’s without his office being trashed and Frank Taylor, a bad-news gang boss from Manchester, turning up with his nasty habits and even nastier tastes.
Cornelius Garrett has performed in repertory theatres throughout the UK and has appeared in several of the BBC Shakespeare plays, the fashion series Gems, White Lady for BBC Screen 2, Casualty and the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only. He has worked extensively in radio drama including classic BBC Radio 4 serials, many Afternoon and Saturday Night Theatre productions as well as programmes for the World Service.
7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 9 hrs
About The Author
John Baker was born in Hull in 1942 and educated at the university there. He has worked as a social worker, shipbroker, truck driver, milkman, and most recently in the computer industry. He has twice received a Yorkshire Arts Association Writers’ Bursary. Married with five children, he lives in York

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John Baker Poet in the Gutter Published July 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 Cornelius Garrett
Introducing Sam Turner, who bluffs his way into a job as a private eye - and discovers he’s good at it!
Because his flat was cold, he was off the booze, and another marriage had gone bust, Sam Turner went to the men’s group. There they talked about Iron John and how men were alienated. Sam said that he was a private detective. It was nearly true - he’d been thinking about it all his life, although he wasn’t sure how much of a future it had in York.
Terry Deacon was interested. He suspected his wife was fooling around Sam thought he could fit some surveillance into his schedule. When it turned out he was dealing with a killer, though, he found his new career was really taking off.
‘Engagingly credible, off the wall, romantic without being sentimental, with a sharp sense of humour’ Val McDermid
Cornelius Garrett has performed in repertory theatres throughout the UK and has appeared in several of the BBC Shakespeare plays, the fashion series Gems, White Lady for BBC Screen 2, Casualty and the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only. He has worked extensively in radio drama including classic BBC Radio 4 serials, many Afternoon and Saturday Night Theatre productions as well as programmes for the World Service.
7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 7 hrs 50 mins
About The Author
John Baker was born in Hull in 1942 and educated at the university there. He has worked as a social worker, shipbroker, truck driver, milkman, and most recently in the computer industry. He has twice received a Yorkshire Arts Association Writers’ Bursary. Married with five children, he lives in York

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John Baker Shooting in the Dark Published February 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 Cornelius Garrett
Angeles Falco seemed like something straight from a 1950s detective movie when she walked into Sam Turner’s office. Beautiful, dark and enigmatic - but made strangely vulnerable by her damaged eyesight. All she would say is that she and her sister were being followed. But by whom or for what purpose she didn’t know - and she feared for their lives.
Sam would be only too happy to help Angeles . . . but when her sister, Isabel, is left brutally murdered on a deserted hillside and he starts to feel a growing affection for his beautiful charge, the case seems to be getting beyond even his experience. And soon he finds himself up against a serial killer whose dark fantasies will try to destroy his attempt at a new life.
A tale of vicious obsession, loneliness and occasional depravity . . .
Cornelius Garrett has performed in repertory theatres throughout the UK and has appeared in several of the BBC Shakespeare plays, the fashion series Gems, White Lady for BBC Screen 2, Casualty and the James Bond film For Your Eyes Only. He has worked extensively in radio drama including classic BBC Radio 4 serials, many Afternoon and Saturday Night Theatre productions as well as programmes for the World Service.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 12 hrs 15 mins
About The Author
John Baker was born in Hull in 1942 and educated at the university there. He has worked as a social worker, shipbroker, truck driver, milkman, and most recently in the computer industry. He has twice received a Yorkshire Arts Association Writers’ Bursary. Married with five children, he lives in York

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Raymond Benson Die Another Day Published November 2002 by Hodder Headline Audio at Ł9.99 ISBN: 1-84032-725 1
Read by Samantha Bond
The action-packed story begins in the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea with a spectacular high-speed hovercraft chase.
From Hong Kong to Cuba to London, Bond continues his quest to unmask a traitor and prevent a war of catastrophic consequence - but not without the help and hindrance of two mysterious femmes fatales.
Hot on the trail of the principal villains, Bond travels to Iceland where he experiences at first hand the power of an amazing new weapon before a dramatic confrontation with his main adversary back in Korea where it all started.
Samantha Bond's latest film is The World Is Not Enough in which she plays Moneypenny. Her television credits include The Ginger Tree, Rumpole of the Bailey and Inspector Morse.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 2 hrs Produced by Heavy Entertainment
About The Author
Raymond Benson is the author of High Time To Kill, The Facts Of Death, Zero Minus Ten and the novelisation of the Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies. His first book, The James Bond Bedside Companion, was shortlisted for an Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Biographical/CriticaI Work. A director of the Ian Fleming Foundation, he lives and works in the Chicago area.

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Edmund Clerihew Bentley Trent's Last Case Published January 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 Christopher Kay
Sigsbee Manderson was one of those fabulous beings who control the destiny of millions not by arms or political power but through the immense wealth they so ruthlessly exploit. His name was News, whatever he did. His death, sudden and violent, meant a huge scoop that had to be followed up immediately, as Sir James Molloy, editor of The Record, instantly recognised. To establish why Manderson died - and, if possible, by whose hand - required powers of reportage and investigation beyond the average.
Like all good editors, Sir James had his man. He knew that Trent, brilliant freelance reporter and investigator, was virtually finished with such assignments, but he also counted on the extraordinary circumstances of the case to lure him to it.
Trent’s explanation was ingenious and brilliant but The Record did not print it. Just as well - the real explanation, when it came, was even more extraordinary.
Christopher Kay was born in Stockport, Cheshire. After an early start in theatre, both acting and singing, he gravitated towards broadcasting: announcing, news-reading and presenting programmes on radio and TV. He worked extensively for Granada, Yorkshire and BBC1 in the North West. He has eleven broadcasting awards to his credit. He now lives in the Clwydian hills of North Wales.
7 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 8 hrs
About The Author
Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) was born in Shepherd’s Bush, educated at St. Paul's School, London and Merton College, Oxford and was called to the Bar in 1902. His first crime novel was published in 1912 and was an immediate success. The public however had to wait more than twenty years for his second. Bentley worked as a journalist for The Daily News and The Daily Telegraph, and his other books include Trent’s Own Case (1936),Trent Intervenes (1938) and Elephant’s Work: An Enigma (1950). One of his two sons was the writer Nicolas Bentley. He also invented a new form of limerick, known as a ‘clerihew’.

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Hilary Bonner A Moment of Madness 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 Gordon Griffin
When rock idol Scott Silver is found murdered, the prime suspect lies dead next to him. For Silver’s killer broke into his mansion home on the South Devon coast and it appears that the rock star’s mesmerising widow, Angel, killed the intruder in self-defence.
Gradually, however, an intense and complex tale of intrigue and deception is revealed. Local paper journalist John Kelly, a man with a past that still haunts him, begins to investigate.
Soon he finds himself falling under the spell of the beautiful Angel. Kelly becomes embroiled in a sexual obsession so overwhelming that it threatens to destroy him. Yet he continues to seek the truth about the night two men died a brutal death . . .
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.
10 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 13 hrs 10 mins
About The Author
Hilary Bonner is a former showbusiness editor of the Mail on Sunday and The Daily Mirror. She now lives in Somerset and continues to work as a freelance journalist, covering film, television and theatre. She is the author of five previous novels, The Cruelty of Morning, A Fancy to Kill For, A Passion So Deadly, For Death Comes Softly and A Deep Deceit.

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John Le Carre Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Published March 2002 by Hodder Headline Audio at Ł8.99 ISBN: 1-85998 669 2
Read by John Le Carré
Smiley and his people are facing a remarkable challenge: a mole - a soviet double agent - who has burrowed his way in and up to the highest level of British Intelligence. His treachery has already blown some of their most vital operations and their best networks. The mole is one of their own kind.
But which one?
John Le Carré was born in 1931. After attending the universities of Bern and Oxford, he taught at Eton and spent five years in the British Foreign Service. He now lives in Cornwall. Le Carré’s own readings of his works have become audio bestsellers.
2 Cassettes Running Time: approx. 3 hrs Abridged by Neville Teller Produced by Heavy Entertainment

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