Episode 7 - The Bells of Christmas

The Bells of Christmas was composed in about fifteen minutes. The entire story came to me in a flash (perhaps that’s why it’s called flash fiction?) I was once told that there are really only four stories: Good versus Evil, Boy meets Girl, Coming of Age, and Redemption. Among the four I’ve found that as I age, the most powerful is Redemption.

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Episode 6 - Staff Call

Everyone has meetings they’d rather not be in, knowing you can be more productive doing something else. Here, Bradley puts pen to paper and channels Edgar Alan Poe to mark one such occasion.

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Episode 5 - An excerpt from A Knife in the Fog

2019 Edgar Award Nominee Bradley Harper reads a passage from his debut book, A Knife in the Fog. A Victorian-age novel centered around an unlikely trio who embark on a quest to capture the menace known as "Leather Apron" who is wreaking havoc in the East end of London.

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Episode 4 - Thief

No matter how far you run or how many years passed, you can’t run forever, your past will eventually catch up with you, but does it always have a negative outcome?

Listen in as Bradley Harper recounts the unsavory and unlikely past of Eugène François Vidocq and how it helped lead to the creation of something extraordinary

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Episode 3 - Homeward Bound

You can almost imagine “Fortunate Son” playing in the background as you listen to a couple of war-time friends making their way back to base through war-ravaged Vietnam, evading the enemy, and finding solace in one another.

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Episode 2 - Moriarty

In this episode: A conversation during a transatlantic crossing, a serial Union Army deserter, a stolen painting, and numerous other illegal exploits.

Listen in as Bradley Harper describes some of the exploits that made a German-born, US-raised criminal the likely inspiration for one of the most notorious criminal masterminds fiction has ever seen: Professor Moriarty.

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Episode 1 - Catrina

In this episode: A widow’s body is found, the reason of death may seem straightforward, however it’s anything but. Join Bradley Harper as he recounts his first crime scene case during his pathology residency, in "Catrina".

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