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Discover a world of heroes and villains, suspense and intrigue. This riveting and comprehensive collection brings together some of the best crime writing of all time. Ruth Rendell and Frances Hegarty spearhead the modern genre, moving through the popular and rarely recorded Graham Greene, to Edgar Wallace and G.K. Chesterton and his master detective Father Brown. And that's not all.
Stories included:
Loopy by Ruth Rendell, read by Patrick Malahide
The Missing Romney by Edgar Wallace, read by Jack Shepherd
Insufficient Evidence by Frances Hegarty, read by Patrick Malahide
The Compleat Criminal Edgar Wallace, read by Jack Shepherd
The Case for the Defence by Graham Greene, read by Patrick Malahide
Markheim by Robert Louis Stevenson, read by Jack Shepherd
The Blue Cross by G.K. Chesterton, read by Jack Shepherd
Bluebeard's Bathtub by Margery Allingham, read by Patrick Malahide
Nine Points of the Law by E. W. Hurnung, read by Patrick Malahide
Arsene Lupin in Prison by Maurice Leblanc, read by Jack Shepherd
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Release date
October 16, 2007 -
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9781907416415
- File size: 146759 KB
- Duration: 05:05:44
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Languages
- English
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Reviews
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The best stories in this crime collection are the gruesome narratives of sociopathic madmen read by Patrick Malahide. He has a knack for murderous schemers, expressing their leisurely paced yet dangerous thoughts with a voice that seethes with repressed rage and insane logic. The other narrator, Jack Shepherd, reads in a cool, reasonable voice and mostly narrates the good guys--the detectives, for instance--or the characters who at least seem good on the outside. The best stories, "Loopy" and "Bluebeard's Bathtub," are both Malahide masterpieces. With impressive malice he delivers statements like, "Once inside the wolf costume, I felt calmer, and yes, happier . . ." and, "Of the three homely middle-aged women whom so far he had persuaded to marry him . . . Edith was proving the most annoying." R.L.G. (c) AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine
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