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The Short, The Long and The Tall

By: Jeffrey Archer, Paul Cox
Narrated by: Anton Lesser, Ben Onwukwe, Imogen Church, Richard Armitage, Robert Bathurst
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Read by a cast including Robert Bathurst, Richard Armitage, Imogen Church, Ben Onwukwe, and Anton Lesser

International number one bestselling author Jeffrey Archer is a master of the short story form, creating classic tales beloved by his fans and hitting the top of the bestseller lists with his previous collections. The Short the Long and the Tall collects together twenty of Archer's most treasured, previously published short stories.

Find out what happens to the hapless young detective from Naples who travels to an Italian hillside town to solve a murder and ends up falling in love; and the pretentious schoolboy whose discovery of the origins of his father’s wealth changes his life forever. Revel in the stories of the woman who dares to challenge the men at her Ivy League university during the 1930s, and another young woman who thumbs a lift and has an encounter she will never forget. Discover the haunting story about four men whose characters are tested to the point of death. Finally, a short parable about how pointless war is, and how decent people are caught up in the crossfire of their leaders’ ambitions.

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Critic Reviews

Stylish, witty and constantly entertaining . . . Jeffrey Archer has a natural aptitude for short stories
If there was a Nobel Prize for storytelling, Archer would win
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Jeffery Archer as fast become one of my favorite authors. I have always been interested in short story's and this was my first venture into a complete collection of short stories. I must say some were just classic stories that will stay with me but some were odd and I did not understand some of the endings, I went back and listened a few times to see if I had missed something but I had not. This may be me of course but I must admit I was little disappointed with this collection.

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