Crime Episodes

Imagine you have only six months to live. What would you do with the time?A) TravelB) Eat in the best restaurantsC) Poison the managing director of the company you worked at for thirty years?The choice is yours…The text for the story can be found in the transcript section on my website: https://www.podpage.com/behind-the-bottom-line/Music by JuliusH, Pixabay.Photo by Food Photographer | Jennifer Pallian on Unsplash

Caliban and his henchman Milos have been arrested, but the real head of their drug dealing gang – the New York socialite Dotty van Meese – has just met the unsuspecting Emily for dinner.Is Emily going to get out of this alive?Music by JuliusH from Pixabay

Emily Lee’s holiday in Venice has not been peaceful. Some headache tablets packed in Emily’s suitcase by the masseuse Maria Torres from her yoga retreat, turn out to contain ecstasy, causing Emily’s friend Filippo to behave very strangely when he took one by mistake. The two of them have now gone to the police where they find out something even more shocking: Maria’s boyfriend has been found drowned in the lagoon and Maria has disappeared.Filippo has a plan to find out what Caliban Leone is ...

Emily has left the Advanced Centre for Wellness and Meditation and is now supposed to be spending a week in Venice with her friend Filippo Cimino. Filippo takes her to have lunch with some good friends of his who run a restaurant, but on their way back to their hotel, Emily has a shock. In the newspaper she reads that a guest she met on the island, Jason Tucker, has died of a drug overdose in Berlin. Could this have anything to do with the founder of the centre, Caliban Leone?Music by Jul...

Emily is enjoying her stay at the Advanced Centre for Wellness and Meditation on the island of Pacelli in the Venetian lagoon, but there are some disturbing things about the place. Why has Caliban Leone, the founder of the centre, got a full-scale chemical laboratory in his cellar? What caused the argument between the centre’s cook, Paolo, and Caliban’s sinister henchman Milos? And what is Maria, Emily’s fitness coach, hiding?Music by JuliusH from Pixabay

Emily wants answers to the questions that have been bothering her since she arrived at the Advanced Centre for Wellness and Meditation on the island of Pacelli. Why are boats arriving on the island in the early hours of the morning? And what is in the herbal tea that the guests drink before their early-morning yoga class that made her behave so strangely?Emily needs answers from Caliban Leone, the mysterious founder of the Centre. But will he give them to her?

Emily has met some of the bizarre other guests on the island of Pacelli at the Advanced Centre for Wellness and Meditation, including Sergei – the video installation artist from Moscow, Jason Tucker an obnoxious DJ from England, and the extravagant Dotty van Meese with whom Emily shares an interest in Tarot card reading and pug dogs. Today, Emily gets into her health regime properly, and things are about to get a little weird.Music by JuliusH from Pixabay

Emily has arrived in Venice and travelled across the lagoon to the island of Pacelli and the Advanced centre for Wellness and Meditation, run by the charismatic Dr Caliban Leone.Now is the time for her to meet the rather peculiar other guests, staying on Pacelli, and have a Tarot reading done for her by the exotic Dotty van Meese.Music by JuliusH from Pixabay

It's the year a shark is spotted swimming down the Grand Canal in Venice, and young executive Emily Lee badly needs a holiday. She decides to travel to the Advanced Centre for Wellness and Relaxation on the small island of Pacelli in the Venetian lagoon for some yoga, warm weather and excellent food.But is the Centre and its charismatic founder, Dr Caliban Leone, everything it should be?Music by JuliusH from Pixabay

DRAMA: Kingsley Adams is a CEO asshole. But if he's your CEO, there isn't very much you can do about it. Or that's what people thought until someone found the password to his secret bank account and leaked details about insider trading to the press. But who was it? And how did they get the information?This story was first published in Business Spotlight in 2016.Photo by Hormel from Pexels.

HUMOUR/CRIME: Horst and Jim are two con-men, down on their luck. Desperate to make money they come up with the ingenious scheme of selling unwanted castles in Germany to gullible Americans. All goes well until Howard Schmidtlein III from Texas walks into their office and rumbles their fraud. But he has an interesting proposal for them ... This story first appeared in Business Spotlight in 2014.Photo by Masood Aslami from Pexels

CRIME: What would you do if you found out your partner was cheating on you? You could throw them out, you could forgive them, you could try counselling ...Or you could do what Rose does and get your revenge. A very nasty revenge.This story first appeared in Business Spotlight in 2012.Photo by Alan Fikz from Pexels

MURDER: When you're caught in a traffic jam and you look at the concrete walls of the bridge or the tunnel that's alongside your car, what do you see? Could that be a face looking back at you? Mr Dimkin could tell you, but would you want to know?This story first appeared in Business Spotlight in 2012.

MURDER: Jasper Slink is a successful young trader in the City of London who is not above using devious means to make a profit. But is sharing his most recent cunning plan with Smitty, the head barman at the "Bull and Bear" wine-bar, such a good idea? This story was first published in Business Spotlight in 2010.Photo by Maria Pop from Pexels