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At an annual party to celebrate the success of the racing season, everything seemed to be running well to form, including the need for more champagne. Then a runaway horsebox ploughed into the marquee. A witness to the terrible death and destruction, wine merchant Tony Beach knows it is just one of those tragic accidents. But when his expert advice is called into play over sub-standard alcohol in a local night club, connections start to click, and another person dies, horribly.

Other Tales: Volume V contains eight bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including stories by eminent genre writers Fritz Leiber (author of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser) and Arthur Conan Doyle (creator of Sherlock Holmes) and an original Dungeons & Dragons-esque yarn by author and narrator Adriel Brandt.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. "A Lodging for the Night: A Story of Francis Villon" is a gripping tale set in 15th-century Paris. Francis Villon, a poet and a poor master of arts, finds himself entangled in a web of crime and desperation on a snowy November night. After witnessing a...

Volt is the leader of the Anarchists, an official gang on the De.mocra.cy server. In a near-future Internet filled with highly regulated, highly restrictive MMOs, the De.mocra.cy server is entirely self-regulated, affording unprecedented freedom of speech and freedom of violence to its users-until now. A new law has outlawed violence between consenting parties, and Volt must mobilize a fractious group of gang leaders to campaign against it-and, unbeknownst to them, to challenge the Unwritten Amendment.