Podcast Episodes

THE WNNNG BALL by ZANE GREY

A minor league manager unexpectedly tells his team they are headed for Canada to play an exhibition game and they run into tougher competition than e…

1 year ago

A RUDYARD KIPLING DOUBLE PLAY COURAGE and FALSE DAWN

'Courage' is actually a very moving poem- a father's advice to his son.

False Dawn had me holding my sides through parts of this story as our narrato…

1 year ago

BEST OF (#63 of 568) OVER THE STELVIO PASS by ROBERT BARR

An Englishman checks in at a small mountain inn in Switzerland and immediately discovers a beautiful young lady who happens to be the daughter of the…

1 year ago

THE ACTOR AND THE ALIBI A FATHER BROWN MYSTERY by G.K.CHESTERTON

Mundon Mandeville runs a thoroughly disliked repertoire theater company and is murdered inside a windowless room in the building although everyone in…

1 year ago

THE JELLYBEAN by F.SCOTT FITZGERALD

The story was written as a sequel to "The Ice Palace," and Clark Darrow appears in both. The omniscient narrator, who ensures that close observatio…

1 year ago

BEST OF (#62 of 567) THE MISSING WILL A HERCULE POIROT MYSTERY by AGATHA CHRISTIE

In this classic Poirot mystery Hastings and Poirot are asked to clear up a very unusual settlement in which the sole heir, a young woman, is challeng…

1 year ago

THE MYSTERY OF HUNTER'S LODGE by AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT INVESTIGATES

Yes- Poirot is BACK!...despite the terrible review we received a couple years ago complaining that my French sounds like its been infusd with Russian…

1 year ago

LOVE BEFORE BREAKFAST by FRANK STOCKTON

Frank Stockton was best known for his humurous children's stories and later "fairy tales for adults" in which he pokes fun at our human capacity for …

1 year ago

BEST OF (#61 OF 566) LANTY FOSTER'S MISTAKE by BRET HARTE

A young girl meets a stranger riding near her parent's ranch, does him a favor, and later comes to believe he may be a Mexican horse thief.

From "St…

1 year ago

JEEVES TAKES CHARGE by P.G. WODEHOUSE

Jeeves Takes Charge" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was publish…

1 year ago