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A woman marries a meek, scientifically minded doctor but can't help comparing him to her much-admired artistic friends.
A dramatic confrontation between two sworn enemies in a generation-old land dispute.
Not your everyday problem.
A woman hears news of her husband's death.
A poor woman borrows a necklace from a rich friend. Classic twisty tale.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
Classic first-person account of a woman's descent into madness.
A penniless man is bet that he can't survive for a month - starting and ending with nothing but an implausible, but real, £1,000,000 note. Trading Places, Brewster's Millions. . . . .
Classic fable. Moral: Appearances can be deceptive.
Classic fable. Moral: It is best to prepare for days of need.
A job advert with a bizarre set of requirements leads a young entomologist off on a mysterious adventure.
A case which leaves a Lady of notoriously loose morals in a nunnery and her lover - a brilliant physician - in a vegetative state.
An emperor whose only ambition is to be well dressed falls victim to a couple of visiting swindlers.
An apparently gentle man becomes increasingly less so as he sinks deeper into an obsession with a mysterious black cat.
A hard drinking, womanising, moustache-wearing baron decides he must get married.
A game of Scrabble has serious consequences.
“Go to Goldman’s Greenhouses. Joseph … will start you … at a buck sixty an hour.” His lungs empty of smoke, “Go talk to him. He’s your uncle. He’ll hire you.
A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger.
Detective Inspector Dave Box entered the room: an elderly man sat motionless in a wheelchair in a blue dressing gown open at his pale chest, revealing sparse hairs and a plastic tube entering the bottom of his throat.
My mum is the undisputed tea-drinking heavyweight champion of the world… or at least the whole of South Lexington Avenue.
Shepherd's family made money by being outlaws. Well, outlaws in the governments' eyes.
Olly Rice had given his life to literature, but what had literature given him? A wound in the head that oozed something worse than blood or brain matter.
Dessie O'Connell was 6 feet 3, thick of bone, and naturally muscular. Unlike almost all of the actors with whom he'd first competed for parts, he hardly needed to work out in order to resemble a Hellenic god.
The spark of his life was fading, but his mind was still sharp, and his memories cocooned him.
"Damn thing," old Ernie muttered, glancing up from his laptop. He reached out to shut off the annoying noise but noticed the call was from his area. This was unusual.
