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Strange Riddles

By: Arthur Conan Doyle,G. K. Chesterton,W. F. Harvey,Cleveland Moffett,Arnold Bennett,Joseph Conrad,Wilkie Collins
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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Publisher's summary

  • 1. "The Mysterious Card" by Cleveland Moffett
  • 2. "The Card Unveiled" by Cleveland Moffett
  • 3. "The Problem of the Five Marks" by Melville Davisson Post
  • 4. "A Terribly Strange Bed" by Wilkie Collins
  • 5. "The Gold Bug" by Edgar Allan Poe
  • 6. "Who Killed Charlie Winpole" by Ernest Bramah
  • 7. "The Comedy at Fountain Cottage" by Ernest Bramah
  • 8. "The Secret of the Smoked Spectacles" by William Le Queux
  • 9. "The Hair" by A. J. Alan
  • 10. "The Haunted Dolls’ House" by M. R. James
  • 11. "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 12. "My Adventure in Norfolk" by A. J. Alan
  • 13. "The Murder of the Mandarin" by Arnold Bennett
  • 14. "The Murder of the Countess Goerlitz" by Sabine Baring-Gould
  • 15. "The Story of Caspar Hauser" by Andrew Lang
  • 16. "The Terrible Story of the Mary Russell" by J. G. Lockhart
  • 17. "The Bundle of Letters" by Maurus Jokai
  • 18. "The Earl, The Warder and the Wayward Heiress" by J. S. Fletcher
  • 19. "The Face" by E. F. Benson
  • 20. "The Furnished Room" by O. Henry
  • 21. "The Inn of the Two Witches" by Joseph Conrad
  • 22. "The Invisible Man" by G. K. Chesterton
  • 23. "The Man with the Watches" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 24. "The Parasite" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 25. "The Secret Sharer" by Joseph Conrad
  • 26. "The Dabblers" by W. F. Harvey
  • 27. "The Nightmare Room" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 28. "The Enemy" by Hugh Walpole
  • 29. "The Beast with Five Fingers" by W. F. Harvey
  • 30. "The Perfect Crime" by Seamark
  • 31. "The Tea-Leaf" by Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace
  • 32. "August Heat" by W. F. Harvey
  • 33. "Mad Monkton" by Wilkie Collins
Public Domain (P)2015 Red Door Audiobooks

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Grade of D.

The narrator's stylistic choices are grating. The stories themselves are not the authors' best work.

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Worst narrator ever. Period.

I wanted SO badly to listen to these stories, but I cannot abide Cathy Dobson's overdone, heavy-handed, and extremely irritating narration. She reminds me of someone imitating Norma Desmond from the movie Sunset Boulevard. She manages to be dramatic while maintaining a monotonous and repetitive cadence that continues throughout the entire narrative.

I now buy almost exclusively audio books through Audible, and there are several short story anthologies that I would love to hear; however, I refuse to purchase a single one of them because listening to her voice is comparable to listening to the sound of nails on a chalkboard! Several other reviewers have posted negative, one star reviews due to this narrator. Please Audible, stop using Cathy Dobson. She may be a very nice person to sit and have a chat with, but I will NEVER, EVER again purchase a book she has narrated, as it is waste of time and money. I own over 25 hours of quality short stories by some of my favorite authors that I am completely unable to bear listening to. Too bad I cannot just leave a zero or negative star.......

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Disappointing

Terrible narration. could hardly differentiate the characters. No inflection or anything while reading. I barely got past the first chapter, before returning it

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