Stories of Duels, Trials, Bets and Dares

By: J. S. Fletcher, Barry Pain, Stacy Aumonier, W. W. Jacobs, Leonard Merrick, Maxim Gorky, Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Cathy Dobson

Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's Summary

An enthralling collection of strange stories where characters are challenged to do something completely out of the ordinary.

• The Earl, the Warder and the Wayward Heiress by J. S. Fletcher
• The Giraffe Problem by Barry Pain
• The Man who Stole a Meeting House by John Townsend Trowbridge
• The Box Tunnel by Charles Reade
• A Lucky Number by S. B. Hale
• The Brown Wallet by Stacy Aumonier
• The Bet by Anton Chekhov
• Juxtapositions by Stacy Aumonier
• Zodomirsky's Duel by Alexandre Dumas
• Twenty-Six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky
• Mons. Casscruche's Inspiration by George Walter Thornbury
• The 19 Club by A. J. Alan
• The Changeling by W. W. Jacobs
• The Belated Russian Passport by Mark Twain
• The Pistol Shot by Alexander Pushkin
• Where was Wych Street by Stacy Aumonier
• The Judgement of Paris by Leonard Merrick
• The Black Poodle by F. Anstey
• A Desperate Adventure by Max Adeler
• One Thousand Dollars by O. Henry
• A Rash Experiment by W. W. Jacobs

Public Domain (P)2015 Red Door Audiobooks

Great Stories, Reader is TERRIBLE

Would you listen to Stories of Duels, Trials, Bets and Dares again? Why?

yes if read by someone else

Who was your favorite character and why?

duno

What didn’t you like about Cathy Dobson’s performance?

Everything, she pauses at the wrong moments, like an alien whose just recently learnt to communicate with humans