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Title: Calamity Town
Subtitle: Ellery Queen, Book 16
Author: Ellery Queen
Narrator: Richard Waterhouse
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-19-14
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town.
At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death.
The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel, and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie façade. He rents a house owned by the town's first family, whose three daughters star in most of the local gossip. One is fragile, left at the altar three years prior, never to recover. Another is engaged to the city's rising political star, an upright man who's already boring her. And then there's Lola, the divorced, bohemian blacksheep. Together, they make a volatile combination. Once he sees the ugliness in Wrightsville, Queen sits back - waiting for the crime to come to him.
Members Reviews:
Atmospheric story, small town murder
The early Queen tales were mostly puzzles. The middle period Queens are very different, focusing on characterization and the psychology of the characters involved. Calamity Town is set in the fictional New England town of Wrightville, and Ellery immerses himself with the Wright family and their troubles. Here he is not the aloof reasoner, but someone who cares deeply about the family, especially young Patricia Wright. There are, it seems, two types of narrators of audio books: the ones who simply read the book, and the ones that perform the book, giving each character life. Waterhouse is definitely the former type, but at least he has a pleasant voice and differentiates the different characters a little.
Great!
Thought i had it figured out pretty early but too many twist and turns later i was still guessing.
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Title: Calamity Town
Subtitle: Ellery Queen, Book 16
Author: Ellery Queen
Narrator: Richard Waterhouse
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-19-14
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 13 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town.
At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death.
The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel, and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie façade. He rents a house owned by the town's first family, whose three daughters star in most of the local gossip. One is fragile, left at the altar three years prior, never to recover. Another is engaged to the city's rising political star, an upright man who's already boring her. And then there's Lola, the divorced, bohemian blacksheep. Together, they make a volatile combination. Once he sees the ugliness in Wrightsville, Queen sits back - waiting for the crime to come to him.
Members Reviews:
Atmospheric story, small town murder
The early Queen tales were mostly puzzles. The middle period Queens are very different, focusing on characterization and the psychology of the characters involved. Calamity Town is set in the fictional New England town of Wrightville, and Ellery immerses himself with the Wright family and their troubles. Here he is not the aloof reasoner, but someone who cares deeply about the family, especially young Patricia Wright. There are, it seems, two types of narrators of audio books: the ones who simply read the book, and the ones that perform the book, giving each character life. Waterhouse is definitely the former type, but at least he has a pleasant voice and differentiates the different characters a little.
Great!
Thought i had it figured out pretty early but too many twist and turns later i was still guessing.