A dashing lineup of elegant crime tales and gritty hardboiled detective stories, alternately menacing and cozy, with two exotic locales, and murder in the mix

C.S. Montanye's "A Shock for the Countess" performed by Fionnula Flanagan, Dashiell Hammett's "The Creeping Siamese" performed by John Shea, Ed McBain's "Improvisation" performed by Isaiah Sheffer, Louise Erdrich's "Gleason" performed by Robert Sean Leonard, Shirley Jackson's "The Summer People" performed by René Auberjonois, Nadine Gordimer's "Country Lovers" performed by Hattie Winston

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