Cut Short

Seven Original Poe and Bradshaw Short Stories

By: M. W. Craven

Narrated by: John Banks

A collection of seven short stories, recorded here for the first time.

In The Killing Field, Poe and Tilly are having breakfast, wondering how to spend the rest of their holiday, when their presence is requested at a Cumbrian airfield. An airfield that, during the 2001 foot-and-mouth crisis, was known as the killing field...

In Why Don't Sheep Shrink?, a global pandemic forces Poe and Tilly to self-isolate together. Things don't go well. They're bickering and on the verge of falling out until Poe finds an old case file: a locked-room mystery he's been mulling over for years. Step forward, Tilly Bradshaw.

Dead Man's Fingers sees Poe, Tilly and Edgar, Poe's English springer spaniel, enjoying a picnic at a nature reserve. When Edgar chases a rabbit, and Poe and Tilly chase after Edgar, they stumble upon a twenty-year-old mystery, a mystery that couldn't be solved until now . . .

In Strange Ink crime-fighting duo Tilly and Poe solve a mystery from inside a pantomime horse in a short story that first appeared in the Halloween anthology Afraid of the Shadows

In A Permanent Solution Poe and Tilly are on an HR course in Wales when a murder is committed in their hotel. But, maybe not everything is as it seems. This story first appeared in First Edition: Celebrating 21 Years of Goldsboro Books.

Mondo Bizzarro sees Tilly drag Poe to Durham to meet her favourite fantasy author, Aldridge Fowler, but when they arrive, he's already dead - killed by his own hand. Despite the overwhelming evidence though, Poe suspects the bookshop staff might be hiding a terrible secret.

In Once in a Red Moon, whilst on a murder-mystery evening in deepest darkest Northumberland, Poe manages to annoy everyone whilst simultaneously solving a mystery - what happened to a five-carat red diamond called the Red Moon of Coonowrin.

©2020 M. W. Craven (P)2023 Hachette Audio UK

These Stories are Brilliant

M.W. Craven is one of my favorite authors and he doesn't disappoint with these brilliant short stories. Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw are a great duo. I wonder if Poe will every win an argument with Tilly. Probably not. John Banks is a wonderful narrator. A great listen.

Definitely worth the price or credit!

What a pleasant and fantastic surprise!

This is an anthology - or I guess a better description is that it is a collection of short stories from the world of Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw. I think there are two or three brand new ones and the others have supposedly been out previously.

For me, I hadn't read any of them, so it was a complete and total pleasure. I had just noticed that the audio versions of each of these novellas were now available and was about to purchase each separately (there are 7 separate stories!) when I happened to notice THIS book also being newly dropped and that it contained EVERY one of them.....SCORE!!!

The cases are extremely short, yet nothing feels skimped or superficial. The setting even makes sense as for most of the stories/cases, Poe and Tilly are forced to quarantine as the Covid 19 Pandemic and lockdown is just starting.

I'm not going to go into the stories separately but will say that they were interesting, unique and exactly what we have come to expect from this fantastic duo.

Great, great choice for a quick and fun read/listen and DEFINITELY worth the price.