Graham Greene
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In this widely acclaimed modern classic, Graham Greene delves deep into character to tell the dramatic, suspenseful story of a good man's conflict between passion and faith. A police commissioner in a British-governed, war-torn West African state, Scobie is bound by the strictest integrity and sense of duty both for his colonial responsibilities and for his wife, whom he deeply pities but no longer loves. Passed over for a promotion, he is forced...
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Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement in this penetrating novel set in 1930s Mexico during the era of Communist religious persecutions. As revolutionaries determine to stamp out the evils of the church through violence, the last Roman Catholic priest is on the lam, hunted by a police lieutenant. Despite his own sense of worthlessness—he is a heavy drinker and has fathered an illegitimate child—he is determined to continue to function...
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Originally published in 1938, Graham Greene's chilling exposé of violence and gang warfare is a masterpiece of psychological realism and often considered Graham Greene's best novel. It is a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the “appalling strangeness of the mercy of God,” a classic of its kind. Set in Brighton, England, among the criminal rabble, the book depicts the tragic career of a seventeen-year-old boy named Pinkie whose primary ambition...
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Somewhere in shadowy post-war Vienna, where everyone has something to sell on the black market, lurks the third man who witnessed the murder of Harry Lime. Novelist Holly Martins is haunted by the death of his friend. His search for the killer makes electrifying drama, in this witty and sophisticated audio adaptation of the Graham Greene classic. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Ian Abercrombie, Rosalind Ayres, Ethan Glazer, Kelsey...
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In London during the Blitz, an amnesiac must outwit a twisted Nazi plot in this "master thriller" of espionage, murder, and deception (Time).
On a peaceful Sunday afternoon, Arthur Rowe comes upon a charity fete in the gardens of a Cambridgeshire vicarage where he wins a game of chance. If only this were an ordinary day. Britain is under threat by Germany, and the air raid sirens that bring the bazaar to a halt expose Rowe as no ordinary man. Recently...
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An "adventurous . . . intelligent . . . ingenious" novel of crime and punishment in pre-World War II London (V. S. Pritchett).
During a demonstration in Hyde Park, Communist bus driver Jim Drover acts on instinct to protect his wife by stabbing to death the policeman set to strike her down. Sentenced to hang-whether as a martyr, tool, or murderer-Drover accepts his lot, unaware that the ramifications for the crime, and the battle for his reprieve,...
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"Greene had wit and grace and character and story and a transcendent universal compassion that places him for all time in the ranks of world literature . . ." -John le Carre
Graham Greene's first published novel tells the story of Andrews, a young man who has betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity or salvation, he takes refuge in the house of a young woman, also alone in the world. Elizabeth...
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Exhibit A volume 9
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Accident, murder or suicide? Forensics tell the gruesome tale of the Solar Temple cult and their belief that death by fire would lead to rebirth on the planet Sirius.
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Exhibit A volume 3
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Shortly after a young working student moves into a new apartment, she suspects someone has been visiting when she's not there. To quell her suspicions, she places a bottle just inside the door as she leaves for work. When she returns, the chain is still o
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Exhibit A volume 14
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A middle aged Vancouver barber is having remarkably bad luck with his girlfriends - they kept dying. Coincidentally they were all native and alcoholics, so it is some time before an astute pathologist questions the staggeringly high blood alcohol levels.
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Exhibit A volume 12
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Firefighters find two dead bodies on a burning boat in Sydney Harbour, Vancouver Island. Another boat has been broken into. The assailants may have drunk beer from the discarded cans on the boat. A forensics ID unit matches the cans through a serial code
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Exhibit A volume 13
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When a Montreal co-ed is murdered, and no suspect is found, a criminal profiler sheds new light on a dark crime.
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Exhibit A volume 1
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On Remembrance Day, in a wealthy suburb, a German matron is found beaten and brutally murdered. An autopsy reveals that the real cause of death is that she's been shot in such a way as to conceal this fact. Firearms expert Sam Barbetta inspects the bullets and determines that the murder weapon was homemade - the bullets can't be traced! With firearms experts stymied, detectives enlist other experts to turn up a suspect. A forensic biologist deciphers...
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Exhibit A volume 4
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In 1990, John Willis of Chicago is sentenced to 105 years in prison for a series of bizarre robberies and sexual assaults. They all take place in women's beauty shops. Willis proclaims his innocence. It is not until 1998 that a committed young US attorney
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Exhibit A volume 6
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An execution style slaying in a convenience store is captured on surveillance video. Can science unlock the mysteries hidden within the images?
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Exhibit A volume 7
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Michael Giroux confesses to a sexual assault. A psychological assessment supports his claim that this was a one time offence. While in prison, his house is sold and the new owner finds numerous photo IDs. The police link one name with a woman who was sexu
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Exhibit A volume 4
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Two teenage girls are ambushed by a man wielding a baseball bat. He wants to party. The girls resist but in the struggle, one girl is beaten and left in a coma and the other is raped and murdered, her body dumped in the nearby river. As police mobilise th
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Exhibit A volume 6
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A young gas station attendant in rural Nova Scotia is found dead. He has been shot twice and the gas station robbed. With no eye-witnesses, the police have a monumental task before them. After weeks, the case appears to have reached a dead end, until anot