Transgressions - ed. Ed McBain

Category: Anthology, Detective, Mystery
Language: English
Keywords: 2006 Donald E. Westlake Joyce Carol Oates Lawrence Block Stephen King

Written by ed. Ed McBain
Read by John Bedford Lloyd, Robert Fass, Carrington MacDuffie, Richard Ferrone, John Keating, David Prete, Michael Boatman, Anne Twomey
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

Transgressions
Edited by Ed McBain

Encode: mp3 - 64kbps, Mono, 44.1 kHz
Total # of Tracks: 18
Total Play time: 28:37:27

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From Goodreads

Forge Books is proud to present an amazing collection of novellas, compiled by New York Times bestselling author Ed McBain. Transgressions is a quintessential classic of never-before-published tales from today’s very best novelists.

Volume One:
Read by John Bedford Lloyd

01) Keller’s Adjustment by Lawrence Block
Everyone’s favorite hit man is back in MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block’s novella, where the philosophical Keller deals out philosophy and murder on a meandering road trip from one end of the America to the other.

02) The Ransome Women by John Farris
A young and beautiful starving artist is looking to catch a break when her idol, the reclusive portraitist John Ransome offers her a lucrative year-long modeling contract. But how long will her excitement last when she discovers the fate shared by all Ransome’s past subjects?

03) The Things They Left Behind by Stephen King
In the wake of the worst disaster on American soil, one man is coming to terms with the aftermath of the Twin Towers–when he begins finding the things they left behind.

Volume Two:
Read by Michael Boatman & Anne Twomey

04) Archibald Lawless, Anarchist at Large: Walking the Line by Walter Mosley
Felix Orlean is a New York City journalism student who needs a job to cover his rent. An ad in the paper leads him to Archibald Lawless, and a descent into a shadow world where no one and nothing is as it first seems.

05) The Corn Maiden: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates
When a fourteen-year-old girl is abducted in a small New York town, the crime starts a spiral of destruction and despair as only this master of psychological suspense could write it.

Volume Three:
Read by Richard Ferrone, John Keating & David Prete

06) Merely Hate by Ed McBain
When a string of Muslim cabdrivers are killed, and the evidence points to another ethnic group, the detectives of the 87th Precinct must hunt down a killer before the city explodes in violence.

07) Hostages by Anne Perry
The bestselling historical mystery author has written a tale of beautiful yet still savage Ireland today. In their eternal struggle for freedom, there is about to be a changing of the guard in the Irish Republican Army. Yet for some, old habits-and honor-still die hard, even at gunpoint.

08) Walking Around Money by Donald E. Westlake
The master of the comic mystery is back with an all-new novella featuring hapless crook John Dortmunder, who gets involved in a crime that supposedly no one will ever know happened. Naturally, when something it too good to be true, it usually is, and Dortmunder is going to get to the bottom of this caper before he’s left holding the bag.

Volume Four:
Read by Robert Fass & Carrington MacDuffie

09) Forever by Jeffery Deaver
Talbot Simms is an unusual cop-he’s a statistician with the Westbrook County Sheriff Department. When two wealthy couples in the county commit suicide one right after the other, he thinks that it isn’t suicide-it’s murder, and he’s going to find how who was behind it, and how the did it.

10) The Resurrection Man by Sharyn McCrumb
During America’s first century, doctors used any means necessary to advance their craft-including dissecting corpses. Sharyn McCrumb brings the South of the 1850s to life in this story of a man who is assigned to dig up bodies to help those that are still alive.