Cut Short cover art

Cut Short

Seven Original Poe and Bradshaw Short Stories

Preview

Get 30 days of Standard free

£5.99/mo after trial. Cancel monthly.
Try for £0.00
More purchase options

Cut Short

By: M. W. Craven
Narrated by: John Banks
Try for £0.00

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £17.94

Buy Now for £17.94

Summary

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
Anthologies & Short Stories Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense Thriller Short Story
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_c
All stars
Most relevant
well written, excellent narration, characters come across as real people, easy listening thoroughly enjoyable

brilliant stories

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Fabulous short story collection from M W Craven showing Poe and Tilly at their best! Great narration too!

Poe and Tilly Shorts

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Cut Short is an audio book featuring seven short stories from M.W. Craven's brilliant protagonists Tillie Bradshaw and Washington Poe.

And it's funny serious and completely gripping to listen too. As narrator John Banks wonderfully brings these two characters to life, and honestly I was hooked and spent the whole time giggling like a fool at the banter between Poe and Tillie.

And with seven intriguing crimes to solve ranging from two men sewn into cows at the height of the foot and mouth outbreak to the murder of an author in a bookshop in Durham. This is compilation that had it all and its perfect for fans of the series.

The seven stories included are:

* The Killing Field

* Why Dont Sheep Shrink?

* Dead Man's Fingers

* Permanent Solution 

* Mondo Bizarro

* Once in a Red Moon

A compilation perfect for Bradshaw & Poe fans!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Really good to listen to as you're working, very relaxing and I love how you can change the speed of the narrator.

Great

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Omg I love the Tilly/ Poe series- honestly laugh out loud moments, and always a good story.

Fab u lous

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

See more reviews