AuthorGraham Greene
NarratorPatrick Malahide
Duration7m
CategoriesAdult Fiction, Short Stories
PublisherCSA Word
VersionUnabridged
Legal loopholes, mistaken identity and unreliable evidence all feature in this story of a murder trial where all is not as 'cut and dried' as it seems. An old woman has been murdered, but who did it, and will retribution be forthcoming?
Author: Graham Greene
Author Graham Greene
Narrator Andrew Sachs
Duration 7h 27m
During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for.
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Author: Edgar Wallace
Author Edgar Wallace
Narrator Jack Shepherd
Duration 25m
A scheming solicitor hatches an elaborate plan to steal a client's inheritance in this story of deception and fraud. Jack Shepherd, television's Wycliffe in the eponymous Cornwall-based series, is an apt reader for Wallace's accomplished prose.
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Author: Graham Greene
Author Graham Greene
Narrator Samuel West
Duration 9h 9m
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller, exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things'.
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Author: Graham Greene
Author Graham Greene
Narrator James Wilby
Duration 7h 27m
This is the story of a man who betrayed his fellow smugglers and fears their vengeance. Fleeing from them, with no hope of pity, he takes refuge in a woman's house who persuades him to give evidence against his accomplices.
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Author: Graham Greene
Author Graham Greene
Narrator Oliver Clement
Duration 10h 10m
These stories, all written between 1929 and 1954, all share the themes that feature so strongly in Graham Greene's novels: humour and violence, pity and hatred, betrayal and pursuit. Comic, sad, shocking and tragic, they recount the tales of Mr Maling's loud stomach, destructive gangs of children, indiscretions revealed and secrets uncovered. CONTA...
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Author: Graham Greene
Author Graham Greene
Narrator Tim Piggott-Smith
Duration 9h 37m
When a leak is traced back to a small sub-section of SIS, it sparks off security checks, tensions and suspicions - the sort of atmosphere where mistakes could be made. This novel opens up the lonely, isolated, neurotic world of the Secret Service.
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Author: Graham Greene
Author Graham Greene
Narrator John Atterbury
Duration 8h 15m
Set in London during and just after the Second World War, the love affair between novelist Maurice Bendix and his married lover, Sarah Miles, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. Two years later a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy. Maurice hires a private detective to follow Sarah and slowly his love for her tu...
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Author: Graham Greene
Author Graham Greene
Narrator Kenneth Branagh
Duration 4h
Victor was 12 years old when the Captain took him away from school, claiming that the boy, now reborn as Jim Smith, had been won from his father at backgammon, or was it chess? Jim tries to piece the story together.
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Author: Graham Greene
Author Graham Greene
Narrator Jeremy Northam
Duration 7h
Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman, was short of money. His daughter had reached an expensive age - so he accepted Hawthorne's offer of $300-plus a month and became Agent 59200/5, MI6's man in Havana. To keep the job, he pretends to recruit sub-agents and sends fake stories, which, to his horror, begin to come true...
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Author: Graham Greene
Author Graham Greene
Narrator Martin Jarvis
Duration 3h
Holly Martins arrives in post war Vienna to discover that his old friend Harry Lime has just died in a car accident. On hearing from Major Calloway of his criminal activities and racketeering, Martins vows to clear his friend's reputation and uncover the truth to discover what really happened to Harry Lime.
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