Discover a world of heroes and villains, suspense and intrigue. This riveting and comprehensive collection brings together some of the best crime writing of all time. Ruth Rendell and Frances Hegarty spearhead the modern genre, moving through the popular and rarely recorded Graham Greene, to Edgar Wallace and G.K. Chesterton and his master detective Father Brown. And that's not all.

Stories included:

Loopy by Ruth Rendell, read by Patrick Malahide

The Missing Romney by Edgar Wallace, read by Jack Shepherd

Insufficient Evidence by Frances Hegarty, read by Patrick Malahide

The Compleat Criminal Edgar Wallace, read by Jack Shepherd

The Case for the Defence by Graham Greene, read by Patrick Malahide

Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson, read by Jack Shepherd

The Blue Cross by G.K. Chesterton, read by Jack Shepherd

Bluebeard's Bathtub by Margery Allingham, read by Patrick Malahide

Nine Points of the Law by E. W. Hurnung, read by Patrick Malahide

Arsene Lupin in Prison by Maurice Leblanc, read by Jack Shepherd