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Cut Short

Seven Original Poe and Bradshaw Short Stories

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Cut Short

By: M. W. Craven
Narrated by: John Banks
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About this listen

A collection of seven short stories, recorded here for the first time.

In The Killing Field, Poe and Tilly are having breakfast, wondering how to spend the rest of their holiday, when their presence is requested at a Cumbrian airfield. An airfield that, during the 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis, was known as the killing field...

In Why Don't Sheep Shrink?, a global pandemic forces Poe and Tilly to self-isolate together. Things don't go well. They're bickering and on the verge of falling out until Poe finds an old case file: a locked-room mystery he's been mulling over for years. Step forward, Tilly Bradshaw.

Dead Man's Fingers sees Poe, Tilly and Edgar, Poe's English springer spaniel, enjoying a picnic at a nature reserve. When Edgar chases a rabbit, and Poe and Tilly chase after Edgar, they stumble upon a twenty-year-old mystery, a mystery that couldn't be solved until now . . .

In Strange Ink crime-fighting duo Tilly and Poe solve a mystery from inside a pantomime horse in a short story that first appeared in the Halloween anthology Afraid of the Shadows

In A Permanent Solution Poe and Tilly are on an HR course in Wales when a murder is committed in their hotel. But, maybe not everything is as it seems. This story first appeared in First Edition: Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books.

Mondo Bizzarro sees Tilly drag Poe to Durham to meet her favourite fantasy author, Aldridge Fowler, but when they arrive, he's already dead - killed by his own hand. Despite the overwhelming evidence though, Poe suspects the bookshop staff might be hiding a terrible secret.

In Once in a Red Moon, whilst on a murder-mystery evening in deepest darkest Northumberland, Poe manages to annoy everyone whilst simultaneously solving a mystery - what happened to a five-carat red diamond called the Red Moon of Coonowrin.

©2020 M. W. Craven (P)2023 Hachette Audio UK
Anthologies & Short Stories Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Crime Thriller Short Story

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Two of my favourite characters solving crimes and making me laugh - just wish it was twice as long as I didn’t want it to end - excellent narrator brings the characters to life!

Brilliant

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Amazing as always Craven! Never disappoints and certainly keeps you hooked! Cannot wait for the next.

Amazing

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Almost saccharin at times, first few stories were good but felt like lectures on diseases, overall enjoyable but a longer tale is preferred

Short but sweet

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well written, excellent narration, characters come across as real people, easy listening thoroughly enjoyable

brilliant stories

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Fabulous short story collection from M W Craven showing Poe and Tilly at their best! Great narration too!

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