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Whose Body?
- The Singular Adventure of the Man with the Golden Pince-Nez: A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery
- Narrated by: Justin Longbourn
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Note: This edition of the first Lord Peter Wimsey novel is narrated in an American accent.
Mild-mannered, inoffensive architect Alfred Thipps finds himself in big trouble when, in preparing to take his morning bath, he finds the tub already occupied by a dead body, wearing nothing but a pair of gold pince-nez glasses. Stolid, unimaginative Police Inspector Sugg is convinced the body is that of Sir Reuben Levy, a famous Jewish financier who disappeared the night before - waving aside objections that, as the body in the tub was uncircumcised, it couldn't be Sir Reuben - and promptly arrests Thipps and his maid for murder.
Luckily for both of them, the dowager duchess of Denver takes an interest and asks her son, Lord Peter Wimsey, to help out. Working with his old friend Detective Charles Parker of Scotland Yard, who's been assigned to the Levy case, Lord Peter sets himself to the task of figuring out who the dead man in the bathtub is. He soon grows to suspect that the two cases are connected in a particularly sinister way....
Lord Peter soon finds himself on the trail of a murderer of a particularly cunning sort, fresh from the perpetration of a shockingly cold-blooded and horrific crime.
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- E M Jane Dunbar
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An American narrator??
Why on earth was it decided to have an American reader for this most English of stories? Earlier versions were narrated by Ian Carmichael who played Wimsey on TV and he was the ideal but there are many other excellent English readers who could have been chosen. I couldn't listen to this at all.
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- Finn J.D. John
- 01-24-19
NARRATED WITH A GENERAL-AMERICAN ACCENT ...
... if you prefer a British-accented narrator I recommend Mark Meadow's version of this title.
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By: Agatha Christie
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The Complete Early Poirot Omnibus
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles; The Murder on the Links; The Man Who Was Number Four; and 25 Others
- By: Agatha Christie, Finn J.D. John
- Narrated by: Finn J.D. John
- Length: 27 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 83
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 72
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Story5 out of 5 stars 70
Hercule Poirot made his first public appearance in 1920 at the age, one guesses, of about 60. He finally breathed his metaphorical last in 1975 at the age of maybe 75 or 80. And in that short span of time — either 55 years or about 20, depending on how you count it — Poirot became one of England’s most profitable and ubiquitous export commodities.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Unsatisfactory Narration
- By Taylor Turner on 03-08-21
By: Agatha Christie, 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
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 282
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 244
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 246
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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4 out of 5 stars
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two stories missing
- By Jerri C on 08-29-18
By: Tony Medawar, and others
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Murder Underground
- By: Mavis Doriel Hay
- Narrated by: Patience Tomlinson
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 114
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Story4 out of 5 stars 102
It's 1934. When Miss Pongleton is found murdered on the stairs of Belsize Park station, her fellow boarders in the Frampton Hotel are not overwhelmed with grief at the death of a tiresome old woman. But they all have their theories about the identity of the murderer and help to unravel the mystery of who killed the wealthy 'Pongle'. Several of her fellow residents - even Tuppy the terrier - have parts to play in the events that lead to a dramatic arrest.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Long and complicated to follow.
- By Andrea Adams-McKnight on 03-20-16
By: Mavis Doriel Hay
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The Cornish Coast Murder
- By: John Bude
- Narrated by: Ben Allen
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 215
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Story4 out of 5 stars 189
The reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen, spends his evenings reading detective stories by the fireside - but heaven forbid that the shadow of any real crime should ever fall across his seaside parish. But the vicar's peace is shattered one stormy night when Julius Tregarthan, an ill-tempered magistrate, is found at his house in Boscawen with a bullet through his head. The local police inspector is baffled by the lack of clues.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Good Old Fashioned Who Done It
- By C. Rosser on 05-12-16
By: John Bude
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The Sherlock Holmes Collection
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Stephen Scalon
- Length: 67 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 133
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 132
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) and astute observation to solve difficult cases.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Scalon's narration is superior to Fry's
- By Sau Cheung on 09-06-19
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Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson
- The Early Adventures, Volume I
- By: David Marcum, Derrick Belanger, Thomas Burns, and others
- Narrated by: Kevin E. Green
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
There is a persistent and incorrect idea, reinforced by countless film misrepresentations, that Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson were always staid and dull British chaps of middle years (or older), with Holmes a spry, cranky, and impatient eccentric, and Watson a white-haired and portly Boobus Brittanicus, a la Nigel Bruce. Students of the true and Canonical Sherlock Holmes know this to be a falsehood.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great listen
- By Chris S on 01-02-22
By: David Marcum, and others
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Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventures: Books 1-3: A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia, A Case of Murder in Mayfair, A Case of Conspiracy in Clerkenwell
- A Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventure
- By: Clara Benson
- Narrated by: Gethyn Edwards
- Length: 18 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Join chaotic 1920s reporter and accidental sleuth Freddy Pilkington-Soames on his adventures in this series of light-hearted mysteries. This omnibus edition contains the first three books in the Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventure series.
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4 out of 5 stars
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cozy historical mystery
- By Roberta A. Halverson on 07-11-22
By: Clara Benson
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The Man in the Queue
- Inspector Alan Grant, Book 1
- By: Josephine Tey
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
A long line had formed for the standing-room-only section of the Woffington Theatre. London’s favorite musical comedy of the past two years was finishing its run at the end of the week. Suddenly, the line began to move, forming a wedge before the open doors as hopeful theatergoers nudged their way forward. But one man, his head sunk down upon his chest, slowly sank to his knees and then, still more slowly, keeled over on his face. Thinking he had fainted, a spectator moved to help, but recoiled in horror from what lay before him.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointment
- By anon on 01-30-23
By: Josephine Tey
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The Christmas Card Crime
- And Other Stories
- By: Martin Edwards
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin, Anne Dover
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 96
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Story4 out of 5 stars 85
A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned amidst the glitz and glamour of Oxford Street’s Christmas shopping. And lost in a snowstorm, a man finds a motive for murder.... This collection of mysteries explores the darker side of the festive season, from unexplained disturbances in the fresh snow to the darkness that lurks beneath the sparkling decorations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Aahhh... Just The Right Blend Of Mystery, Murder And Christmas.!!
- By John on 12-04-18
By: Martin Edwards
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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 610
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 545
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Story3.5 out of 5 stars 548
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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The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries
- By: Otto Penzler - editor
- Narrated by: Rachael Beresford, Stephen Bowlby, Dan Calley
- Length: 37 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 8
Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler returns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembling Victorian society's lords and ladies and most miserable miscreants. Behind the velvet curtains of horse-drawn carriages and amid the soft glow of the gaslights are the detectives and bobbies sniffing out the safecrackers and petty purloiners who plague everything from the soot-covered side streets of London to the opulent manors of the countryside. Brush off your dinner jackets and straighten out your ball gowns for these exciting, glitzy mysteries.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good to listen to over the holidays
- By Linda Conover on 01-01-23
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What Maisie Knew
- By: Henry James
- Narrated by: Maureen O' Brien
- Length: 11 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 97
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 77
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Story4 out of 5 stars 78
Maisie is an innocent six year-old, torn between her divorced parents, pathetically isolated yet tragically involved.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great reader reads a great writer
- By Seth on 08-27-12
By: Henry James
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Death Makes a Prophet
- By: John Bude
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 38
Welworth Garden City in the 1940s is a forward-thinking town where free spirits find a home - vegetarians, socialists, and an array of exotic religious groups. Chief among these are the Children of Osiris, led by the eccentric High Prophet, Eustace K. Mildmann. The cult is a seething hotbed of petty resentment, jealousy and dark secrets - which eventually lead to murder. The stage is set for one of Inspector Meredith's most bizarre and exacting cases.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fine story good writing
- By peter on 06-28-22
By: John Bude
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The Lodger
- A Tale of the London Fog
- By: Marie Belloc Lowndes
- Narrated by: Lorna Raver
- Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 334
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 215
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 216
An elderly couple living in Victorian London struggle against despair as their small resources dwindle. When an eccentric and mysterious gentleman answers their advertisement for a lodger, they celebrate. But as women begin dying at the hands of "The Avenger", they start to suspect something too horrific for words.
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3 out of 5 stars
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enjoyable
- By Pamela on 06-10-04
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75+ Anthology of Detective. Premium Collection: Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot, Arthur Conan Doyle The Complete Sherlock Holmes Stories, G.K. Chesterton The Blue Cross (Father Brown), Edgar Allan Poe The Gold-Bug, Hunted Down by Charles Dickens
- By: Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, and others
- Narrated by: Peter Coates, Trevor O'Hare, Chris Dabbs, and others
- Length: 66 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4 out of 5 stars 9
This collection carefully selects more than 75 of the greatest detective stories written by some of history's finest authors.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Struggled with Narrator
- By L-Boogie404 on 01-07-22
By: Agatha Christie, and others
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Sherlock Holmes and the Three Winter Terrors
- By: James Lovegrove
- Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 880
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 817
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 814
Three linked crimes test Sherlock Holmes’ deductive powers, and his skepticism about the supernatural, to the limit.
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3 out of 5 stars
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bog standard
- By Ijw on 06-02-22
By: James Lovegrove