Presenting KCRW's new mystery series...
Mean Streets USA:
A Collection of
Short Crime Fiction
This eight CD set features classic and contemporary detective fiction authors, read by a cast of distinguished actors.
Available only with
subscription to KCRW
Producer: Bob Carlson
Listen to "It's a Hard World", by Andrew
Vachss as read by Kevin Tighe.
(requires Real
Player)
Robert Egan directs and, with longtime musical collaborator, composer Karl Lundeberg, establishes a moody noir tone, in a moral universe where black and white are not always what they seem.
Works by Ross Macdonald, Walter Mosley, Raymond Chandler, Sue Grafton, Elmore Leonard, Dick Lochte, Jim Fusilli, Andrew Vachss, George Pelecdanos, and Micahel Connelly.
Read by Stacy Keach, John Michael Higgins, Tony Plans, Jefferson Mays, and others.
Episodes:
"The Angry Man" by Ross
Macdonald
Read by Stacy Keach
From Strangers in Town: Three Newly Discovered Mysteries by Ross Macdonald
(Crippen & Landru, 2002)
"Silver Lining" by Walter
Mosley
Read by Meshach Taylor
From Six Easy Pieces (Atria, 2003)
"The Serpent's Dance" by Jim
Fusilli
Read by Tate Donovan
From Argosy Magazine #3 (Spring 2005)
"The Dead, Their Eyes Implore Us" by George
P. Pelecanos
Read by Tony Plana
From The Best American Mystery Stories, 2003 (Houghton Mifflin,
2003)
"Cielo Azul" by Michael
Connelly
Read by John Michael Higgins
From Dangerous Women (Mysterious Press, 2005)
"The Parker Shotgun" by Sue
Grafton
Read by Harriet Sansom Harris
From Mean Streets (Mysterious Press, 1986)
"A Tough Case to Figure" by Dick
Lochte
Read by Jefferson Mays
From Lucky Dog and Other Tales of Murder (Five Star, 2000)
"It's a Hard World" by Andrew
Vachss - Listen
Read by Kevin Tighe
From Born Bad: Collected Stories (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard,
1994)
"I'll be Waiting" by Raymond
Chandler
Read by Dakin Matthews
From Collected Stories by Raymond Chandler (Knopf/Everyman's
Library, 2002)
"Karen Makes Out" by Elmore
Leonard
Read by Sharon Lawrence
From When the Women Come Out to Dance (Morrow, 2002)