Crime, thriller, and noir fans will delight in this fourth volume of The Greatest Mysteries of All Time, an exciting series featuring short fiction by legendary writers, past and present. From Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, and Georges Simenon to Lawrence Block and Sara Paretsky, this unique collection— compiled and edited by multi-award-winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler— is a captivating mixture of mystery and suspense. The stories featured here are:

• " The Case of the Pietro Andromache" by Sara Paretsky, read by Jean Smart

• " By the Dawn's Early Light" by Lawrence Block, read by Robert Forster

• " The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe, read by Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

• " The Little House at Croix-Rousse" by Georges Simenon, read by Dave Madden

• " The Two Bottles of Relish" by Lord Dunsany, read by Christopher Cazenove

• " The Long Way Down" by Edward D. Hoch, read by Richard Gilliland

• " The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, read by John Rubinstein

• " Nearly Perfect" by A.A. Milne, read by Juliet Mills

• " The Absent-Minded Coterie" by Robert Barr, read by Christopher Cazenove