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Publisher's Summary
A new translation of Georges Simenon's novel set in a claustrophobic provincial town.
Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had realized that they were not important. Whatever roared by like this along the road was not part of the landscape.
What really counted was the lock, the hooting of the tugs, the stone crusher, the barges and the cranes, the two pilots' bars, and especially the tall house where he could make out Ducrau's red chair framed by a window. This novel has been published in a previous translation as The Lock at Charenton.
Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love and friendship in a dying world.
- By Tarquin on 03-18-19
By: Erich Maria Remarque, and others
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Ratking
- Aurelio Zen, Book 1
- By: Michael Dibdin
- Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 202
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 178
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Story4 out of 5 stars 176
A powerful industrialist, Ruggiero Miletti, is kidnapped. Inspector Zen is transferred to Perugia to take over the case - but finds that there are many obstacles in his way. The local authorities see him as an interloper, and the victim’s family, one of the most powerful in Italy, seem content to let Miletti languish in the hands of his abductors. Zen has crossed swords with the establishment before - and lost. Can he succeed this time?
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narrator spoiled it for me
- By Gregory Aurand on 12-15-13
By: Michael Dibdin
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The Recognitions
- By: William Gaddis
- Narrated by: Nick Sullivan
- Length: 47 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 208
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Story4 out of 5 stars 169
Wyatt Gwyon's desire to forge is not driven by larceny but from love. Exactingly faithful to the spirit and letter of the Flemish masters, he produces uncannily accurate "originals" - pictures the painters themselves might have envied. In an age of counterfeit emotion and taste, the real and fake have become indistinguishable; yet Gwyon's forgeries reflect a truth that others cannot touch - cannot even recognize.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Breathtaking, Dizzying, Stimulating, Funny
- By andrew on 11-17-10
By: William Gaddis
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A Man Lay Dead
- By: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrated by: Philip Franks
- Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 610
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 539
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 540
Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the fashionable Murder Game, in which a guest is secretly selected to commit a 'murder' in the dark, and everyone assembles to solve the crime. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Upper Crust Mystery
- By Laurence G. Byrne on 02-25-16
By: Ngaio Marsh
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The Untouchable
- By: John Banville
- Narrated by: Bill Wallis
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 99
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 97
Victor Maskell has been betrayed. After the announcement in the Commons, the hasty revelation of his double life of wartime espionage, his photograph is all over the papers. His disgrace is public, his position as curator of the Queen’s pictures terminated… Maskell writes his own testament, in an act not unlike the restoration of one of his beloved pictures, in order for the process of verification and attribution to begin.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Brilliant writer writes the most boring spy story
- By David on 05-15-12
By: John Banville
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Laughter in the Dark
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Luke Daniels
- Length: 5 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 141
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 124
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 122
Albinus, a respectable, middle-aged man and aspiring filmmaker, abandons his wife for a lover half his age: Margot, who wants to become a movie star. When Albinus introduces her to Rex, an American movie producer, disaster ensues. What emerges is an elegantly sardonic and irresistibly ironic novel of desire, deceit, and deception, a curious romance set in the film world of Berlin in the 1930s.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Death is often the point of life's joke
- By Darwin8u on 05-19-13
By: Vladimir Nabokov
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Waiting for Sunrise
- A Novel
- By: William Boyd
- Narrated by: Robert Ian MacKenzie
- Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 157
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Story4 out of 5 stars 131
Lysander Rief, a young English actor in town seeking psychotherapy for a troubling ailment of a sexual nature, becomes caught up in a feverish affair with a beautiful, enigmatic woman. When she goes to the police to press charges of rape, however, he is stunned, and his few months of passion come to an abrupt end. Only a carefully plotted escape - with the help of two mysterious British diplomats - saves him from trial. But the frenzied getaway sets off a chain of events that steadily dismantles Lysander's life as he knows it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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No need to wait.
- By Thomas D Kennedy on 07-25-12
By: William Boyd
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The English German Girl
- By: Jake Wallis Simons
- Narrated by: Julie Teal
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 608
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 561
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 561
In 1930s Berlin, choked by the tightening of Hitler's fist, the Klein family are gradually losing everything that is precious to them. Their 15-year-old daughter, Rosa, slips out of Germany on a Kindertransport train to begin a new life in England. Charged with the task of securing a safe passage for her family, she vows that she will not rest until they are safe. But as war breaks out and she loses contact with her parents, Rosa finds herself wondering if there are some vows that can't be kept....
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5 out of 5 stars
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must read
- By Donna on 01-31-12
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Troubles
- By: J. G. Farrell
- Narrated by: Kevin Hely
- Length: 15 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
Major Brendan Archer travels to Ireland - to the Majestic Hotel and to the fiancée he acquired on a rash afternoon's leave three years ago. Despite her many letters, the lady herself proves elusive, and the Major's engagement is short-lived. But he is unable to detach himself from the alluring discomforts of the crumbling hotel. Ensconced in the dim and shabby splendour of the Palm Court, surrounded by gently decaying old ladies and proliferating cats, the Major passes the summer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolutely delightful read
- By E. Kim on 02-25-20
By: J. G. Farrell
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King, Queen, Knave
- By: Vladimir Nabokov
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 51
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4 out of 5 stars 44
This novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men’s clothing emporium. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife, Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the thin, awkward, myopic Franz. Newly arrived in Berlin, Franz soon repays his uncle’s condescension in his aunt’s bed.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A non-Euclidean German love triangle.
- By Darwin8u on 04-01-13
By: Vladimir Nabokov
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Arch of Triumph
- By: Erich Maria Remarque
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 158
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 118
It is 1939. Despite a law banning him from performing surgery, Ravic, a German doctor and refugee living in Paris, has been treating some of the city's most elite citizens for two years on the behalf of two less-than-skillful French physicians.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Western Front 20 Years Later
- By Paul on 07-20-06
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The Crime at Black Dudley
- An Albert Campion Mystery
- By: Margery Allingham
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 607
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 543
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 546
When George Abbershaw is invited to Black Dudley Manor for the weekend, he has only one thing on his mind - proposing to Meggie Oliphant. Unfortunately for George, things don't quite go according to plan. A harmless game turns decidedly deadly and suspicions of murder take precedence over matrimony. Trapped in a remote country house with a murderer, George can see no way out. But Albert Campion can.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I LIKE this narrator quite a lot!!!!
- By Meep on 11-16-13
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Where She Lies: A Gripping Irish Detective Thriller with a Stunning Twist
- Detective Finnegan Beck Series, Book 1
- By: Michael Scanlon
- Narrated by: Ruairi Conaghan
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 292
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 261
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Story4 out of 5 stars 258
In a town full of liars, who can you trust? When Detective Finnegan Beck is demoted from his high-powered job in Dublin and relocated in disgrace to the small Irish town of Cross Beg, he predicts boredom will be his biggest threat. But then a beautiful local teenage girl is found strangled in the cold, dark woods a mile from town. The prime suspect is the seemingly gentle drifter who found Tanya’s body. Beck seems to be the only person who can’t escape the feeling that Tanya wasn’t killed at random.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fabulous! Best I’ve listened to in awhile
- By George on 02-10-19
By: Michael Scanlon
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice, or On the Segregation of the Queen
- Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, Book 1
- By: Laurie R. King
- Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 5,707
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 5,198
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5,173
This program includes a preface read by the author. In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees when a young woman literally stumbles into him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes - and match him wit for wit. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern 20th-century woman proves a deft protégée and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fabulous new take on Sherlock Holmes
- By Steph on 04-14-14
By: Laurie R. King
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Black Out
- An Inspector Troy Novel
- By: John Lawton
- Narrated by: Lewis Hancock
- Length: 12 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 290
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 270
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Story4 out of 5 stars 265
London, 1944. While the Luftwaffe makes its final assault on the already battered British capital, Londoners rush through the streets, seeking underground shelter in the midst of the city's blackout. When the panic subsides, other things begin to surface along with London's war-worn citizens. A severed arm is discovered by a group of children playing at an East End bomb site, and when Scotland Yard's Detective Sergeant Frederick Troy arrives at the scene, it becomes apparent that the dismembered body is not the work of a V-1 rocket.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Terrible
- By Amazon Customer on 03-13-18
By: John Lawton
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The Paying Guests
- By: Sarah Waters
- Narrated by: Juliet Stevenson
- Length: 21 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 3,065
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,765
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,773
It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned; the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband, and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Difference of Opinion
- By Mel on 12-17-14
By: Sarah Waters
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City of Women
- By: David R. Gillham
- Narrated by: Suzanne Bertish
- Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 487
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 422
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Story4 out of 5 stars 424
It is 1943 - the height of the Second World War. With the men taken by the army, Berlin has become a city of women. And while her husband fights on the Eastern Front, Sigrid Schröder is, for all intents and purposes, the model soldier's wife: She goes to work every day, does as much with her rations as she can, and dutifully cares for her meddling mother-in-law, all the while ignoring the horrific immoralities of the regime. But behind this façade is an entirely different Sigrid, a woman who dreams of her former Jewish lover.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Foggy, Ungrounded and Vague
- By Sara on 12-29-15
By: David R. Gillham