Showing results for "witness" in Short Stories

What does it mean to take action? To bear witness? What does it cost? These stories take us into the heart of contemporary New York City and its residents’ lives. We meet children, grandmothers and even ghosts as they strive to connect, to stand up for, and to really see each other. Their relationships shape not only their own futures but those of their families and their city. In its portraits of families and friendships, Witness enacts its own testimony.

Agatha Christie's shocking courtroom drama, read on audio by her grandson, Mathew Prichard. When wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls to Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heilger, can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine informs the police that Vole returned home late that night covered in blood.

Presenting an American voice for this legendary Agatha Christie mystery with one of her best denouements.

Mark is the accused rapist. Miss P. is the victim, his former teacher. Moira M. is an apathetic juror. As the trial unfolds in this intense short story, three personal histories emerge, along with three alarmingly different points of view: Obsessed and angry. Menaced and disillusioned. Disaffected and searching through an unexamined life for moral conviction.

A classic Agatha Christie short story, available individually for the first time in digital audio, performed by Christopher Lee. When wealthy spinster Emily French is found murdered, suspicion falls to Leonard Vole, the man to whom she hastily bequeathed her riches before she died. Leonard assures the investigators that his wife, Romaine Heilger, can provide them with an alibi. However, when questioned, Romaine informs the police that Vole returned home late that night covered in blood.

எல்லாவற்றிலும் பல இக்கட்டான சூழ்நிலைகளும் வாய்ப்புகளும் ஓடிக்கொண்டிருக்கின்றன: உடைந்த உறவுகள், சிதைந்த மதிப்புகள், எல்லைக்குட்பட்ட பிரிவுகள், இயற்கையிலிருந்து முற்றிலும் துண்டிக்கப்பட்ட இயந்திர வாழ்க்கை. இவை அனைத்திற்கும் மத்தியில், ஒரே ஒரு நம்பிக்கை மட்டுமே உள்ளது, தீவிரத்துடன் அதிர்வுறும்.

You would think that the easiest crimes to solve would be the ones where you have several eyewitnesses who saw what happened and are willing to tell the police about it. However, as DI Peter Johns discovers in this short story, witnesses don't always always remember what they saw - and sometimes they even remember things that they did not see!