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Mark Ablett's stately mansion, the Red House, is filled with very proper guests when his most improper brother returns from Australia. The prodigal brother enters Mark's study, the parlor maid hears arguing and the brother dies...rather suddenly, with a bullet between the eyes. The study is locked from the inside and Mark is missing!
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The Best Crime Stories Ever Told
- By: Dorothy L. Sayers - editor
- Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth, Suehyla El Attar
- Length: 20 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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When acclaimed mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers first began compiling anthologies of the best crime stories in the 1920s and ’30s, the genre was in the flush of its first golden age. While it is hard to imagine today - after every possible mystery plot has been told, retold, subverted, and played straight again by hundreds of writers over nearly a century - in Sayers’s day there were still twists that had never been seen, and machinations of crime that would shock even jaded Jazz Age fans.
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Lot of duds, some gems
- By Regina on 11-09-13
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Lord Peter Wimsey: Novels 1-3
- By: Dorothy L. Sayers
- Narrated by: Graham Scott
- Length: 26 hrs and 38 mins
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The first three mysteries for Dorothy L. Sayers' aristocratic sleuth: first, a body is discovered in a Battersea bathroom, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez, on the same night that financier Sir Reuben Levy disappears from his Park Lane home. Then, Wimsey returns to England when his brother, the Duke of Denver, is accused of murdering the fiance of their sister, Lady Mary, and a trial in the House of Lords looms; and finally, an overheard conversation in a restaurant begins an investigation of the strangely premature death of wealthy and terminally ill old lady Miss Agatha Dawson.
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Winnie-the-Pooh
- A.A. Milne's Pooh Classics, Volume 1
- By: A. A. Milne
- Narrated by: Peter Dennis
- Length: 2 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Come with us to an Enchanted Place, a forest where Winnie-the-Pooh lived with Piglet, Rabbit, Owl, Eeyore, Kanga, and Little Roo. The stories are about Christopher Robin and these good companions having wonderful times getting in and out of trouble. It is all very exciting and, really, quite thrilling no matter how young or old you may be. It is painful to try and imagine what the world would be like without them.
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Cute!Cute!Cute!
- By Adam on 03-06-07
By: A. A. Milne
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The Honjin Murders
- By: Seishi Yokomizo
- Narrated by: Akira Matsumoto
- Length: 5 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In the winter of 1937, the village of Okamura is abuzz with excitement over the forthcoming wedding of a son of the grand Ichiyanagi family. But amid the gossip over the approaching festivities, there is also a worrying rumour - it seems a sinister masked man has been asking questions about the Ichiyanagis around the village. Then, on the night of the wedding, the Ichiyanagi family are woken by a terrible scream, followed by the sound of eerie music - death has come to Okamura, leaving no trace but a bloody samurai sword, thrust into the pristine snow outside the house.
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Enjoyable, Some Audible issues.
- By M on 10-03-21
By: Seishi Yokomizo
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The Great Mistake
- By: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
- Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In an elaborate house known as the Cloisters, Maud Wainwright rules supreme. The queen of society in the small town of Beverly, she has a table long enough to seat 100, and she keeps an iron grip on the guest list. Her right-hand woman is Pat Abbott, a local girl who is beautiful, innocent, and kind. Pat has no idea how cutthroat high society can be, but she's about to get a deadly first lesson.
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Excellent Entertainment
- By Gypsi on 10-31-23
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Quick Service
- By: P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Imperious American widow Beatrice Chavender is visiting her sister's country home near London when a most unfortunate thing happens: She takes a bite of inferior ham while having her breakfast. Soon everyone around her is suffering the consequences - her sister, her brother-in-law, the butler, poor Sally, Sally's fiancé, and even Mrs. Chavender's ex-fiancé, "Ham King" J. B. Duff.
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Hilarious!
- By Jaime Treadwell on 05-18-21
By: P. G. Wodehouse
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The Decagon House Murders
- By: Yukito Ayatsuji, Ho-Ling Wong - translator
- Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
- Length: 8 hrs and 31 mins
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A hugely enjoyable, must-listen murder mystery sure to appeal to fans of Elly Griffiths, Anthony Horowitz, and Agatha Christie, with one of the best and most satisfying conclusions you'll ever hear. A classic in Japan, available in English for the first time.
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play it at x1.25 and it's great
- By wafflemeister on 07-06-22
By: Yukito Ayatsuji, and others
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Bodies from the Library
- Selected Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense by Masters of the Golden Age
- By: Tony Medawar, Agatha Christie, Georgette Heyer, and others
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together a selection of rare tales by masters of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including a newly discovered Agatha Christie crime story that has not been seen since 1922. At a time when crime and thriller writing has once again overtaken the sales of general and literary fiction, Bodies from the Library unearths lost stories from the Golden Age, that period between the World Wars when detective fiction captured the public’s imagination.
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two stories missing
- By Jerri C on 08-29-18
By: Tony Medawar, and others
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- Jan H. Wolfe
- 03-29-21
What fun
The writing and cadence is very much A. A. Milne, but the story is a gem. I guessed a bit of it early, but the unfolding was delicious and I didn’t guess the ending. The characters were just full enough to be interesting. The narrator was gifted but did little to change voices. The story did that. Too bad it is a one and done.
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- Katherine E. Sammons
- 08-19-22
Great overall. Narrator difficult to understand
This was very good overall and the narration was engaging, if difficult to understand due to lack of annunciation. Famous voice though, slso one knows what they are getting into.
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- Cafi
- 03-13-21
Good story terrible narrator
I could not fully enjoy this book because of the narrator. He was unable to change his voice for any character so most of the time I couldn't tell who was speaking because they all sound the same. His voice sounds like he was mumbling throughout the whole book, sluring his words together so sometimes it was difficult to understand what he was saying. If you can get over his voice the story is pretty good and enjoyable. But I would honestly skip this version and get another with an different narrator.
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- happyjo
- 07-03-22
The Red House Mystery
I struggled to finish this one. finished it tho with a dislike of the characters and the story. I listened to the audio book.
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- Roy Lindhardt
- 10-05-23
No Sherlock Holmes, But Clever in its Own Way
I can imagine that the author must have grown up reading Sherlock Holmes mysteries and thinking that he could write them better. While I agree with him that Sherlock was way too stuck on himself and mean, I think Mr. Milne missed the secret ingredient that actually made Sherlock novels so good, at least for me. I think the friendship between Watson and Holmes was more believable. This book did keep you guessing quite well though and made some interesting twists and turns. The reader was not very talented though.
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- Ellipooh
- 02-26-24
An unlikely mystery
I was able to manage with the mumbly narrator once I dressed him in period clothes and gave him a pipe. I did have to resort to making a list of the many characters in the beginning but that sorted itself out quickly for the most part. The ending comes all at once, a la Poirot, but quite satisfying.
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- Yvette
- 08-06-18
Great reading of a wonderful mystery
A.A. Milne wrote a charming, funny, and puzzling mystery, and it was read very well by William Sutherland. I enjoyed it hugely! But be aware that the sound quality is iffy sometimes.
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- Derlyn
- 04-30-18
You should still get it.
The audio quality is not the greatest. It’s understandable but that’s about the best part. However the story is well written and is definitely worth the listen. Hopefully Audible will redo this book with a better recording in the future.
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- ashley
- 10-19-22
A clever adventure
I enjoyed the cheek of this detective story. Definitely worth a listen even if the narrator doesn't do a fantastic job of differentiating characters.
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- Zeno
- 03-16-24
A quaintly enjoyable time
A. A. Milne is of course best known for Winnie the Pooh. But detective stories were big then as they are now and so he decided to write one. He dedicated the book to his father, writing " Like all really nice people, you have a weakness for detective stories, and feel that there are not enough of them. So, after all that you have done for me, the least that I can do for you is to write you one. Here it is: with more gratitude and affection than I can well put down here. A.A.M."
This is a mildly intriguing read/listen. Yes, it is a locked-room mystery - but the way the "sleuths" go about solving it is just sort of on the side. The protagonist is described as a highly intelligent young man who's interested in everything. For that reason, he's taken on profession after profession, simply to learn. Whenever he takes on a job, he tells them to not pay him the first month - but that if he proves to be a quick learner and do a good job, then pay him double the second month. ... it's a nice notion and this in itself could make for an interesting novel. But this is just the preamble because he just happens to be at the Red House as a murder happens.
He finds himself a 'Watson' and actually calls him that. They very much play on the Holmes/Watson dynamic - but neither those characters, nor the case, are particularly interesting. It really appears to have been simply a personal gift to his dad - and for that, it is surely nice. But if you compare it with just about any other sleuthing novel, this one really doesn't rank. For far better sleuths and stories, give me Lew Archer (Ross Mcdonald), Philip Marlowe (Raymond Chandler), Sam Spade (Dashiell Hammet) or, of course, Sherlock Holmes (A. C. Doyle) and Hercule Poirot (Agatha Christie) any time.
Oh by the way - for a truly curious locked-room mystery, read the Honjin Murders by Seishi Yokomizo. While there, too, the sleuth isn't particularly interesting, the locked-room mystery really is one special.
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