A collection of eight radio dramas and readings featuring elaborate thefts, confidence tricks and impossible missions, including the famous real life Hatton Garden Heist
Simon Bovey's Mountain of Light imagines an audacious attempt to steal the Koh-i-Noor diamond from the Great Exhibition of 1851; Paul Sellar's The Moonflask offers a modern caper centred on a priceless Ming vase and a group of unlikely conspirators; Philip Palmer's Hatton Garden Heist dramatises one of Britain's most notorious real-life robberies; while Laura Bridgeman and Charles Lambert's Caterpillars offers a comic take on criminal inheritance and family legacy.
Wally K. Daly's Burglar's Bargains and R.D. Wingfield's Credit Risk feature brilliant comic crime writing built around elaborate schemes and confidence tricks. Abir Mukherjee's recent serial Raiders of the Lost Cask combines Highland adventure, mystery and criminal intrigue. Peter Bradshaw's short story Neighbours of Zero offers a comic variation on the theme through a betting-shop scam.
