BBC R4 - Murder At The Red October by Anthony Olcott
The novel opens with Duvakin providing security at the Red October hotel. A sleepy nightshift position, he spends most of his time dealing with drunks and minor visitor complaints. When a murder occurs, he calls the KGB and thinks he has passed the problem on to someone else. When he stumbles across a substantial quantity of heroin stored in a Russian doll, he unintentionally deals himself back into the high stakes game.
Mickey is startled to find a statue of Rose in a museum - a statue that is 2,000 years old. The Doctor realizes that this means the TARDIS will shortly take them to Ancient Rome, but when it does, he and Rose soon have more on their minds than sculpture. While the Doctor searches for a missing boy, Rose befriends a girl who claims to know the future. But then the Doctor stumbles on the hideous truth behind the statue of Rose - and Rose herself learns that you have to be very careful what you wish for...
The partners at Finley & Figg often refer to themselves as a “boutique law firm.” Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are none of these things. They are a two-bit operation of ambulance chasers who bicker like an old married couple. Until change comes their way—or, more accurately, stumbles in. After leaving a fast-track career and going on a serious bender, David Zinc is sober, unemployed, and desperate enough to take a job at Finley & Figg.
Jerry Ahern - Pursuit When John Rourke's daughter is kidnapped by a Russian agent, Rourke follows their trail across a frozen Arctic wasteland and stumbles upon a small pocket of humanity living in a tropical paradise surrounded by ice and snow.
Added by: Kahena | Karma: 11526.37 | Fiction literature | 26 August 2011
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Trouble Is My Business
In the four long stories in this collection, Marlowe is hired to protect a rich old guy from a gold digger, runs afoul of crooked politicos, gets a line on some stolen jewels with a reward attached, and stumbles across a murder victim who may have been an extortionist.
