Last Words
A Coleridge Taylor Mystery
The Coleridge Taylor Mysteries: Book #1
- By: Rich Zahradnik
- Narrated by: Donald Corren
- Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Description
In March of 1975, as New York City hurtles toward bankruptcy and the Bronx burns, newsman Coleridge Taylor roams police precincts and ERs. He is looking for the story that will deliver him from obits, his place of exile at the Messenger-Telegram. Ever since he was demoted from the police beat for inventing sources, the thirty-four-year-old has been a lost soul.
A break comes at Bellevue, where Taylor views the body of a homeless teen picked up in the Meatpacking District. Taylor smells a rat: the dead boy looks too clean, and he’s wearing a distinctive army field jacket. A little digging reveals that the jacket belonged to a hobo named Mark Voichek and that the teen was a spoiled society kid up to no good, the son of a city official.
Taylor’s efforts to protect Voichek put him on the hit list of three goons who are willing to kill any number of street people to cover tracks that just might lead to City Hall. Taylor has only one ally in the newsroom, young and lovely reporter Laura Wheeler. But time is not on his side, and if he doesn’t wrap this story up soon, he’ll be back on the obits page—as a headline, not a byline.
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The Coleridge Taylor Mysteries Series

Last Words
By: Rich Zahradnik
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes
Abridged: No
In March of 1975, as New York City hurtles toward bankruptcy and the Bronx burns, newsman Coleridge Taylor roams police precincts and ERs. He is looking for the story that will deliver him from obits, his place of exile at the Messenger-Telegram. Ever since he was demoted from the police beat for inventing sources, the thirty-four-year-old has... Read more »
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Drop Dead Punk
By: Rich Zahradnik
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 7 hours 49 minutes
Abridged: No
Coleridge Taylor is searching for his next scoop on the police beat. The Messenger-Telegram reporter has a lot to choose from on the crime-ridden streets of New York City in 1975. One story outside his beat is grabbing all the front page glory: New York teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, and President Ford just told the city, as the Daily News... Read more »
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A Black Sail
By: Rich Zahradnik
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
Abridged: No
On the eve of the US Bicentennial, newsman Coleridge Taylor is covering Operation Sail. New York Harbor is teeming with tall ships from all over the world. While enjoying the spectacle, Taylor is still a police reporter. He wants to cover real stories, and gritty New York City still has plenty of those in July of 1976. One surfaces right in... Read more »
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Lights Out Summer
By: Rich Zahradnik
Narrated by: Donald Corren
Length: 8 hours 3 minutes
Abridged: No
In March 1977, ballistics link murders going back six months to the same Charter Arms Bulldog .44. A serial killer, Son of Sam, is on the loose. But Coleridge Taylor can't compete with the armies of reporters fighting New York's tabloid war-only rewrite what they get. Constantly on the lookout for victims who need their stories told, he uncovers... Read more »
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