Guilty as Charged: Volume II.

Volume II Edited by Scott Turow. Read by Tony Roberts and Judy Kaye. Dutkin

Hayes. Two cassettes, 3 hrs., $16.99 ISBN 0-88646-435-8

The short-format classic detective story has long been a staple of audio

publishing, often presented in anthologies of historical material. Here, in the

publisher's second volume of a compilation series, editor Turow (Presumed

Innocent, etc.) has again culled a collection from today's practitioners of the

form. All still rely on the old-fashioned pulp magazine-style genre. Standard

boilerplate-issue characters are featured, with hardened gumshoes eking out

marginal existences in gritty …