This is your audiobook for July 2023, in which we are paying tribute to some of the "early queens of crime" who dominated the short story format at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. The three stories you will hear today are: "Mr Furbush"(1865) by Harriet Prescott Spofford, "The Regent's Park Murder" (1901) by Baroness Orczy, and "The Adventure of the Clothes-Line" (1915) by Carolyn Wells. All of these and more can be found in the crime fiction anthology In the Shadow of Agatha Christie, edited by Leslie S. Klinger.

After listening, if you'd like to discuss this story with other members or make suggestions for me to record in the future, head over to the audiobook club area of the forum to do that.