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Title: Stranger in the Dark

Author: Helen Nielsen

Narrator: Jim Meskimen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 1 min

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

In a neatly handled story with a fresh setting, Helen Nielsen introduces Larry Willis, star salesman for an American farm equipment company, who earned a trip to Copenhagen for a business convention. With four days free before its opening, he wandered about in a lonely and bewildered state until a stranger addressed him as MacDonald and handing him a package containing $300. From that moment on he was the busiest man in Copenhagen. He became the unwilling center of an intrigue that involved illegal smuggling of refugees from Russia, murder, and sundry other matters. In the end it netted him a whole new outlook on life, a girl, and a heros part in solving this fascinating puzzle.

The characterization, atmosphere, and suspense give Helen Nielsen fans a full measure of her skill as a storyteller and offer the new listener an unexpected pleasure.

Members Reviews:

Mistaken For A Stranger

The premise in âStranger in the Darkâ is that Larry Willis, an innocent bystander, bears a striking resemblance to someone else and, thus, while on a business trip to Copenhagen to attend a farm machinery convention, Willis gets somehow caught up in international intrigue and murder. It is a plot device that has been used in a number of other novels over the years and it keeps the reader fascinated because everything is a complete mystery. Here, Nielsen is a terrific writer and the force of her narrative moves this story along so that the reader just wants to know what is going on and what is going to happen. However, the plot is extremely convoluted and the motivations of the characters, particularly Willis himself, are not that strong. The book simply does not seem grounded and it is hard to care about what is going on when you donât know what is really at stake for most of the book. Itâs worth reading and hard to put down once you start, but, overall, it simply doesnât leave the reader overly enthusiastic.

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Title: Agreement to Kill

Author: Peter Rabe

Narrator: Brian Holsopple

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Punching Dixon had gotten Jake Spinner thrown in jail, but now that hes out all he wants is a fresh start back on his farm. Suddenly Dixon is dead and Spinner is on the run, escaping town in the getaway car with Dixons assassin in the back seat! He knows the cops wont believe his innocence. He knows his only chance is to keep the cold, clubfooted little killer known as Loma with him. Because Loma is his ticket to a new life. His respectable life shattered, Spinner figures the only ones wholl take him in now are the guys who hired Loma. The choice is easy - until he meets Ann.

Members Reviews:

A Murder, An Innocent Man, & A Journey

Agreement to Kill is Peter Rabe's take on the theme of an innocent man on the run. It takes an ordinary guy with all the evidence in his he world pointing toward his guilt and throws in a deadly Assassin, a femme fatale, and mob connections. It also includes a jury trial, Perry Mason style. However, like other Peter Rabe books, there's a certain oddness and awkwardness to the main characters and the story. Even the romantic entanglements are odd, awkward, & don't make perfect sense. But that's okay - in real life, things don't always fit together neatly and people are odd, awkward, and uncomfortable.

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Title: The Crime is Murder

Author: Helen Nielsen

Narrator: Jennifer Bradshaw

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Young Marta Cornish was haunted by a heritage of buried scandal and dark desires. Her father - a composer of genius - had died violently and the sinister enigma of his death lingered, poisoning the lives of those who had loved and hated him.Suddenly, past anguish exploded into present terror: a shadowed figure walked, desperate to lay the ghost of Martin Cornish - at the price of his daughters life....

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Title: This Game of Murder

Author: Richard Deming

Narrator: Caroline Shaffer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Betty Case opened her eyes, fear gripping her. She lay very still for a moment, listening. Then she heard the sound again, like someone walking on the roof.

Instantly she thought of the cat burglar, whod been terrorizing his victims with an axe. She sat up and reached for the gun under her pillow.

A rasping sound came from the hall window; the she heard footsteps outside the bedroom door. She held her breath, her eyes straining in the darkness, her hand gripping the gun tighter.

Suddenly the door opened. A shadowy figure stood there, a glittering blade in his hand. Betty screamed and pulled the trigger - setting off a chain of events that enmeshed her deeper and deeper in a vicious game of murder and violence.

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Title: She'll Hate Me Tomorrow

Author: Richard Deming

Narrator: Mark Ashby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

If someone had told Gamble Clancy Ross that a stenographer - just out of secretarial school, at that - could start a gang war, he would have grinned and suggested an immediate sojourn in a mental institution for the prognosticator.

Even if that same someone had described the chick in question - blond, shaped like a Don Juans dream girl and measuring 38-28-38 - he still would have suggested a tonic for tired blood and mental fatigue.

And yet thats exactly what happened. Stella Parsons just happened to be privy to information which would put a Syndicate biggie on the hot seat. Clancy just happened to think it would be a waste of natural resources to expose Stella to the disease known as rigor mortis, and he therefore endangered his own future enjoyment of Stellas services (nonsecretarial) by engaging two rival gangs in a war for the control of town ironically named Saint Stephen.

Members Reviews:

Top Notch Classic Pulp

Richard Deming wrote detective fiction in the 1940s and 1950s in Manhunt and Mike Shayne and later wrote for tv such as Dragnet and other shows. He is not as well known as other writers from that era and that's unfortunate because, if this book is typical of his work, he's one of the best. This is a classic old fashioned hardboiled pulp novel. It is well written, quick paced, and possibly a little risqué considering the era in which it was written. Stella is a young innocent secretary with an incredible figure. She stumbles on information that is dangerous to have while working for a criminal defense attorney. She ends up with the top enforcers from the Chicago mob after her and willing to shoot the whole town up to get to her. She's on her own though with only one man willing to stand up to the mob and protect her. Would make a great movie with Charlize Theron playing Stella. A masterpiece!

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Title: The Damned Lovely

Author: Jack Webb

Narrator: J. P. Guimont

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

She was lovely - blonde, blue eyes, with luscious curves in the right placesShe was damned - an eye witness to a gang killing and the murderer knew where to find herA baffling thriller by the author of The Naked Angel, about a terrifying murder, a vicious frame-up, and a mysterious disappearance, in which the rough-and-ready tea of Police Detective Sammy Golden and fearless parish priest Father Joseph Shanley tackle a professional killer and rescue a witness who was Damned Lovely.

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Title: Chicago Slaughter

Author: Mike Barry

Narrator: Adam Epstein

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When a wolf leaves the pack, he lives only as long as he can kill by himself quicker and surer than any pack he runs up against. Meet a man beyond either forgiveness or vengeance. Meet the Man they call The Lone Wolf. Better meet him now. The way he lives, he cant live much longer.

There was nothing you could do, the policeman thought. You just had to seal off your mind. Unless you were that crazy bastard Wulff. He thought for a moment of his ex-partner, ex-cop, ex-combat soldier, ex-narco, who was going to clean up the international drug trade singlehandedly and on the street. Wulff was crazy, he thought that you could really make a difference. The policeman could have laughed but then he thought of what Wulff had accomplished in just a couple of months of single-handed action and he was not so sure. Moving out on his own he had done more damage than a hundred agencies in 20 years. The policeman was still busy with these reflections when the knife entered him, between two ribs, neatly and almost painlessly at first.

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Title: Anything but Saintly

Author: Richard Deming

Narrator: L. J. Ganser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Prostitution, dope, gambling, and murder!

As a town, St. Cecilia was anything but saintly - prostitution, dope, gambling, the works. Matt Rudd of the Vice Squad had the lurid inside story. But he was helpless as long as crooked politicos like Nick Bartkowiak and his right-hand goon, Little Artie Nowack, kept the Police Commissioner under their thumb. Then the strangling of one of Little Arties call girls raised a few eyebrows, especially Rudds. And when his questions brought him face-to-face with a gun, a five-gallon bucket and a sack of plaster of Paris, even the cowering Commissioner had to face facts - shoot to kill! All-out war on the underworld!

Members Reviews:

He wasn't really going for 'gritty.'

Publication date: 1963

The title refers to the fictional city of St. Cecelia (which may be San Diego). Matt Rudd is on the Vice squand. The book starts when an out-of-town businessman complains that he's been 'rolled':

Warner said, âThe girl came to my room about eleven-thirty last night. She said her name was Kitty, but she didnât give a last name. She was about twenty-five, five feet four, around a hundred and fifteen pounds. She had dark hair and eyes, a very pretty face and was built like a Coca-Cola bottle. I gave her fifty dollars to spend the night.â

âAny distinguishing marks?â

âYes, one. She had a small tattoo in the shape of a heart on her left hip.â

Carl said sourly, âYou left the light on, huh?â

Now, despite the subject matter- prostitution and 'rackets,' corrupt politicians and cops posing as pimps, this is really a sweet and rather innocent man-tasy. Deming never really gets edgy, and Matt Rudd behaves like a gentleman throughout, but the story has a nice pace, and is never boring. Sometimes it even gets titillating:

For an instant she stood facing me, her back arched to push out her magnificent breasts, then did a pirouette and picked up her drink. Carrying it to the easy chair facing the television set, she sat, tucked her bare feet beneath her and gave me a chummy smile. I pulled a straight-backed chair over next to the easy-chair, picked up my own drink and sat down. A private eye thing was playing on television, but I didnât look at it. You can see those any night, but how often do you see a bare forty-inch bust that doesnât require support?

âCheers,â she said, elevating her glass. I raised mine too, and we drank.

Clear, effective writing.

Anything But Saintly by Richard Deming stars Sgt. Matt Rudd of the vice squad. A call girl's murder starts off this well told tale of

hardboiled crime.

Deming does a great job of describing a world in which petty criminals use strong arm tactics that sometimes get out of hand. Where top police brass often look the other way depending on how politically connected a crook might be.

An excellent example of mid-20th century crime fiction. Highly recommended.

Solid

A solid, if somewhat unexceptional police procedural. Protagonist is a vice cop somewhat under the thumb of local town bosses, when he thinks he's inadvertantly helped a whore get murdered he decides to get the killer. Most notable for a surprisingly frank look at sex -- it's the early sixties but you get, rather carefully spelled out, little lessons on how streetwalkers work, on how whores live and work, the difference in those days between a "pimp" and a "procurer", etc.

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Title: The Girl's Number Doesn't Answer

Author: Talmage Powell

Narrator: L J Ganser

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Three people were dead, their heads bashed in, their bodies hacked with a samurai sword. All three victims were Japanese. The murder weapon was traced to Nick Martin, a veteran of Iwo Jima. Nick had spent 15 pain-ridden years in and out of Army hospitals. He tried to drown his memories of the horror, but whisky only put him right back in the middle of that fierce battle. Nick drank a fifth the night of the killing.

Thats the kind of case the police call 'open and shut.' But Ed Rivers, a private detective, was a friend of Nick Martins. And no one was shutting the door of a death cell on Nick - not while Rivers could still go after the real, fiendishly clever murderer.

Members Reviews:

Ed Rivers runs through it

Publication date: 1960. The second Ed Rivers novel, and not as good asThe Killer is Mine (Prologue Books), but still enjoyable.

Here's big Ed Rivers, once again trying to open a murder case that everyone thought was open and shut:

CHAPTER 4 THE FILE on the murder had started lustily and grown fatter as each edition came off the presses. I waded through the gory pictures and details. Most of it I knew. Like all authentic horror, the story was too simple and stark to need much embellishment for effect. Photographic coverage had been extensive. Price [the editor] had an innate sense of taste under his cynicism which had kept him from running some of the worst of the pictures.

The Japanese businessman who was killed turned out to have a partner, and the partner turns out (you know how these thing go) to have a beautiful, bratty daughter:

She offered one of the glasses. She didn't let it go right away, and we both stood holding it for a second.

"What kind of business are you in, ugly man?"

"I'm a private detective."

"Really?" She seemed interested, but not in my occupation. She stepped back. The bored, vacant look was gone from her dark eyes for a moment. "Good old plebeian beer," she said. "Here's to big, ugly men who drink beer."

Despite no real twists- the story moved quickly, and once resolved, wrapped up with a terse and effective mano a mano fight. The steamy Tampa atmosphere and the dialogue, both skillfully handled, compensate for a plot built from recycled parts.

A Terrific Ed Rivers PI Novel

âThe Girlâs Number Doesnât Answerâ is the second of five Ed Rivers novels authored by Talmage Powell. The others in the series are: (1) âThe Killer Is Mineâ (3) âWith A Madman Behind Meâ (4) âStart Screaming Murderâ and (5) âCorpus Delectableâ. Rivers is a private eye in the Tampa Bay area, having his office in Ybor City, the Spanish section. Rivers was originally a New Jersey police officer who fell for a girl who left him for a hood and then watched as his girl and the hood lost a race with a freight train. He has some bitterness about this. He thought she had been âeverything fine and decent molded into human form.â Rivers is not a Tampa native and canât really stand the heat there. Each evening he buys a twenty-five pound block of ice and places it in front of a fan to cool down his bedroom or soaks in a tub of chilled water. Heâs tall, gangly, and ugly. He explains, âMy face usually gets a reaction.

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Title: The Brass Halo

Author: Jack Webb

Narrator: J. P. Guimont

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-10-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Out of the night, she came. She walked into Augies place and she sand. Lord, how she sang. She wrapped her voice around a song and the customers loved it.

Then, suddenly she disappeared. She walked out of the club, into the night. There was nothing left behind to show shed been there nothing but the body of the man who lay dead on her dressing room floor.