Tales of manipulation, broken promises and tests of faith

Read by Richard Mitchley, Mark Rice-Oxley, Warren Keyes(Unabridged: 11hrs 14mins)

Featuring stories by Rudyard Kipling, Maxim Gorky, Edith Wharton, Saki, O Henry, Georgia F Stewart, John Davys Beresford, H P Lovecraft, Ivan Turgenev, Ella D'Arcy, Perceval Gibbon, Kate Chopin, Mary Mackay writing as Marie Corelli, Samuel Blas, Israel Zangwill, Anatole France, Barry Pain

As a general rule we are a trusting lot. You say something and, whilst I might disagree, I believe you are acting in good faith. Of course this may be just the beginning of a ruse. If I trust you I might let down my guard, I might seek to share and to create a bond between us. But, if you can’t be trusted, if you have an ulterior motive I might lose out.

In the hands of authors such as Maxim Gorky, Ella D’Arcy, Rudyard Kipling, Ivan Turgenev and may others reality may not be what it quite seems.

1 - Short Stories About Trickery & Deception - An Introduction

2 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 1 by Rudyard Kipling

3 - The Man Who Would Be King - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling

4 - Chelkash - Part 1 by Maxim Gorky

5 - Chelkash - Part 2 by Maxim Gorky

6 - Chelkash - Part 3 by Maxim Gorky

7 - Souls Belated by Edith Wharton

8 - The She-Wolf by Saki

9 - Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet by O Henry

10 - The Wooing of Pastor Cummings by Georgia F Stewart

11 - Mrs Packletide's Tiger by Saki

12 - As the Crow Flies by John Davys Beresford

13 - The Rats in the Walls by H P Lovecraft

14 - The District Doctor by Ivan Turgenev

15 - Irremediable by Ella D'Arcy

16 - The Connoisseur by Perceval Gibbon

17 - The Kiss by Kate Chopin

18 - The Hired Baby, A Romance of the London Streets by Mary Mackay writing as Marie Corelli

19 - The Open Window by Saki

20 - Revenge by Samuel Blas

21 - Cheating The Gallows by Israel Zangwill

22 - Putois by Anatole France

23 - Post Mortem by Barry Pain