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Title: Philomel Cottage (Dramatised)

Author: Agatha Christie

Narrator: Tom Hollander, Lizzi McInnerny, full cast

Format: Original Recording

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-10

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 13 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When Alex and Terry set up their own e-commerce company in Philomel Cottage, everything looks rosy until money goes missing from Alex's account. Soon she is questioning her partner - and, indeed, the cottage itself.

Members Reviews:

Quick Read!

I like any thing written by Agatha Christie, but sometimes you want a quick read but still enough mystery to figure out. And this book certainly does that. What I always like about her books is that you think you have figured it out right from the beginning,, only to find out you were not quite as wise as you thought you were.

Classic Agatha

What can one say about anything Agatha Christie has written. I have read almost all of her books and short stories, but every once in a while I find one that I have missed. Philomel Cottage is such. It is an old love story with twists and naturally mystery thrown in. I am an older person and a book-worm (now also a Kindle worm) and I can't say that I have enjoyed reading any other author as Agatha Christie so much. Philomel Cottage has given me again a couple of delightful hours of a good read.

Philippe cottage

A different mystery in this story. Again it was a good story just right for a quiet evening for a bookaholic. Thanks

One of my favorites by Agatha Christie

I'm a big fan of Agatha Christie's and this is one of my favorite stories. It is short but extremely original and very entertaining.

Ingenious!!

As usual, this is a great short story by the clever Agatha Christie! It was intriguing throughout and has a twist ending that will surprise you-- even if you don't think you can possibly be surprised, Ms. Christie will manage to do so., This is an entertaining way to spend about half an hour or so. It's well worth it so check it out!

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Title: The Hound of Death (Dramatised)

Author: Agatha Christie

Format: Original Recording

Length: 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-10-10

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 20 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The year is 1920, and an ambitious doctor meets a nun apparently traumatised by what she witnessed in the Great War. An attempt to restore the woman's sanity results in the uncovering of something very sinister indeed.

Members Reviews:

Good, different

This is a very UNtypical Agatha Christie collection. The stories are all good, of course, but I found many of them to be dark and without humor. Her books are always so uplifting, even with murder as a background, that I was a little shocked at these stories. Read them for their interest, but don't expect them to sound like our lady's usual work.

Five Stars

none

Classic

Agatha Christie is always excellent

Christie

What's not to love about a story by this legendary author. It keeps the reader glued to the story. It adds to the large number of Christie works.

A great Christie collection

Another fantastic Christie novel. I wish she'd written more.

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Title: Gideon's Ride

Subtitle: Gideon of Scotland Yard

Author: John Creasey (JJ Marric)

Narrator: Raymond Sawyer

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-10-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Available to download for the first time, The Gideon of Scotland Yard Series by JJ Marric (pseudonym of Grand Master John Creasey).

A gang is at work robbing any passenger they find travelling alone on the top deck of London's buses. One night they strike too hard and murder results, followed by another killing of the bus conductress who could have indentified them. This is just one of several cases laden with human interest and suspense which came Gideon's way in another busy week at Scotland Yard.

John Creasey (1908-1973) published over 600 books under 20+ different pseudonyms. In 1969 he was given the Mystery Writers of Americas highest Honour, the Grand Master award.

Members Reviews:

Police procedural at its best

Would you listen to Gideon's Ride again? Why?

Yes, this series is addictive; extremely well crafted plots combined with believable characters.

Who was your favorite character and why?

My favorite character is Gideon because he is complex, adept, and solves his cases in an interesting way

What does Raymond Sawyer bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

He creates the characters seamlessly; making the dialog real. I love having a good actor read to me.

Any additional comments?

I have downloaded all the books available in the Gideon series and I just wish there were more; they are wonderful.

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Titolo: Dieci piccoli indiani

Autore: Agatha Christie

Narratore: Guido Ruberto, Daniela Morelli, Bruno Slaviero

Formato: Abridged

Durata: 2 hrs and 21 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 07-15-10

Editore: GoodMood

Valutazioni: 4.5 su 5 su 6 voti

Categoria: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Riepilogo Editore:

Dieci piccoli indiani è considerato il romanzo giallo in assoluto più venduto, un best seller dal 1939, anno della sua pubblicazione. Agatha Christie lo ambienta a Nigger Island, un'isola che per 10 persone dovrebbe essere uno splendido luogo di vacanza. Una sequenza inquietante di omicidi cambia di colpo l'atmosfera e per i dieci ospiti dell'isola, la vacanza si trasforma in un tragico incubo...

©2010 AGATHA CHRISTIE Dieci Piccoli Indiani Copyright © 2010 Agatha Christie Limited (a Chorion company). All rights reserved. And then there were none was first published in 1939.

Recensioni dei membri:

fantastico!

I'm a huge Agatha Christie fan and I love all of her stories but this is one of the best. I've been reading children's books until now to practice my Italian and I thought this would be a bit too difficult but the pronunciation is really clear.

la produzione e anche molto buona con tutte le voci e la musica drammatica.

One thing is a bit strange. The original title of this book was quite offensive and the title has been changed but the name of the island and the poem haven't been updated. I'm assured this word is also extremely rude in Italian. Besides that. it's a great listen!

Buon ascolto!

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Title: Overture to Death

Author: Ngaio Marsh

Narrator: Anton Lesser

Format: Abridged

Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-08-10

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

It was planned as an act of charity: a new piano for the parish hall, an amusing play to finance the gift. The question now under bitter discussion is, who shall play the overture?

Though Eleanor Prentice wins, on the night of the performance, she cannot play. Miss Campanula steps triumphantly into the breach - a chord was is, a shot rings out, and Miss Campanula is dead, shot between the eyes. A case of sinister infatuation for the brilliant Chief Detective-Inspector Alleyn.

Members Reviews:

Music Can Be Murder

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I would recommend this to anyone who likes a "cozy" mystery. Well written, in typical Ngaio Marsh style.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Roderick Alleyn, of course. The urbane and insightful detective.

What about Anton Lessers performance did you like?

I've enjoyed his film performances so much that I was eager to listen to his performances as a narrator. I was not disappointed. He is wonderful to listen to.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

No extreme reactions, but it was a nice relaxing listen that kept me guessing.

Finished

I enjoyed this book very much and particularly Anton Lesser 's gripping performance of it. Recommended.

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Title: His Last Bow

Subtitle: Short Stories of Sherlock Holmes

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 03-09-10

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 37 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Gathering together in one volume the later exploits of Sherlock Holmes, the world's first consulting detective, His Last Bow includes tales published individually between 1908 and 1917. It also contains one early story, 1892's "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box", which, with its themes of adultery, was previously considered too "scandalous" for American audiences.

Here, Holmes must contend with mysterious bearded men, stolen secret submarine plans, a missing lady aristocrat, and his own near-fatal illness.

The stories contained in His Last Bow are "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge", "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box", "The Adventure of the Red Circle", "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans", "The Adventure of the Dying Detective", "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax", "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot", and "His Last Bow".

Members Reviews:

Some Interesting Criminal Grotesques, but

SImon Prebble does a great Holmes and a spot on Watson, and His Last Bow (1917?) does have its moments, and Conan Doyle is ever a fine writer, and I like the device he frequently uses of the story within a story (as when Watson depicts suspects or clients telling their stories to Holmes). But am I beginning to tire of Sherlock Holmes stories, having worked through all of them except those in The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes?

"The Adventure of the Wisteria Lodge" opens with a conservative bachelor who feels ill used by a mysterious new acquaintance called Garcia and his grotesque servants and then morphs into a tale of patriots trying to achieve justice against the cruel and greedy dictator who traumatized their Central American country San Pedro and then absconded with his ill gotten gains. Throughout the story, Holmes has, for once, a competent local detective rival.

"The Adventure of the Cardboard Box" features severed human ears packed in salt and some ungovernable adulterous passions.

"The Adventure of the Red Circle" concerns the long reach of Italian American organized crime (and feels like others of Holmes' stories that deal with organized crime and star-crossed lovers).

"The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" deals with a corpse found in the London tube without his ticket and with some top secret plans for a new type of submarine. It reminds me of the earlier Holmes story "The Naval Treaty" and disappointingly depicts Mycroft Holmes as a man with an important job.

"The Adventure of the Dying Detective" features a brilliant villain who is to microbes as Holmes is to criminals (but the best part of the story may be its title).

In "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" autumnal love is interfered with by an amoral Australian con man.

In the entertaining "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot" we witness an egregious example of Holmes' reckless experimentation that ends up displaying the depths and powers of Watson's affection for him.

"His Last Bow," published in 1917 during WWI, is an uninspiring third person story not narrated by Watson and deals with international intrigue between patriotic Brits and cocky and slimy Germans.

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Title: Inspector Steine (Dramatised)

Author: Lynne Truss

Narrator: Michael Fenton Stevens, Jan Ravens

Format: Original Recording

Length: 2 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-03-10

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The first series of Lynne Truss's hugely popular BBC Radio 4 comedy thriller set in 1950s Brighton. A place of knickerbocker glories, end-of-the pier shows... and an enormous amount of unsolved crime.

Step forward Inspector Steine. Naive and innocent, he believes that he wiped out all the villains at a single stroke in the Middle Street Massacre when seventeen local hoodlums gunned each other to death. Fortunately, long-suffering Sergeant Brunswick is at hand to help Steine with his enquiries. Aided by keen Constable Twitten, they must find the criminal mastermind who is operating undetected in their midst.

In these six episodes, a headless corpse is found on the Palace Pier ghost train; a foppish London theatre critic is found dead after a performance of a kitchen-sink drama; and the Inspector decides to go undercover at the Black Cat Casino while a robbery takes place in the bank next door to the police station. In addition, Ventriloquist Vince receives threats after moving his booth to a new pitch; Steine falls in love with Adelaide Vine, the beautiful owner of a fish and chip shop; and ponders how to celebrate the five-year anniversary of the Middle Street Massacre: unaware that a deranged criminal has escaped from Broadmoor with revenge on his lips...

Starring Michael Fenton Stevens as Steine and Jan Ravens as Mrs Groynes, this perfectly-judged blend of humour, nostalgia and mystery from bestselling author Lynne Truss makes for an irresistible listen.

Members Reviews:

Total anti climax

Not funny except for one line

Boring poor script presumably it was meant to be predictable .... It was but totally lacked humour or entertainment value performance was good the content was poor

good fun

not to be taken too seriously. this is well acted, slightly wistful salute too comedy great of the era. Enjoy with whimsy and this will do everything I says it does on the package

very funny and well acted

Where does Inspector Steine (Dramatised) rank among all the audiobooks youve listened to so far?

This story is very witty. I listened to this on a long flight to pass the time. It was laugh out loud funny. I was so annoyed when we came to land as I hadn't listened to it all - had to finish listening to it when I reached the hotel. Wish there were more!

A bit of humour around a bit of detection

A little far fetched but makes you smile, gives you a laugh, and is quite entertaining and easy to listen to!

Middling

This was just too lightweight and also slightly irritating. It passed the time, but not something I will listen to again.

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Titre: Les huits coups de l'horloge (Arsène Lupin 27)

Auteur: Maurice Leblanc

Narrateur: Philippe Colin

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 8 hrs and 1 min

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 02-16-10

Éditeur: Compagnie du Savoir

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Dans cette aventure, Lupin affronte avec humour et brio le brillant détective Herlock Sholmès, un double bien réel et tout aussi brillant du célèbre détective anglais Sherlock Holmes. Herlock Sholmes est une copie transparente du héros de Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, qui en 1906 avait déjà connu un très grand succès en France. Maurice Leblanc était d'ailleurs surnommé "le Conan Doyle français".

Arsène Lupin: Ce Robin des Bois moderne met son intelligence, sa force physique et son sang-froid au secours de "l'innocence persécutée". C'est également un homme élégant et séducteur, très apprécié des femmes. Il sait se montrer d'une ironie inégalable à l'égard des forces de l'ordre et de ses rivaux (principalement l'inspecteur Ganimard et le détective britannique Herlock Sholmès (parodie de Sherlock Holmes). Son côté enfantin aussi bien qu'une face plus sombre, un caractère à la fois séduisant, torturé et mystérieux, lui ont assuré son succès.

L'auteur

est né le 11 novembre 1864 à Rouen et décédé le 6 novembre 1941 à Perpignan. Les exploits de son personnage Arsène Lupin se déroulent principalement à Paris et dans le pays de Caux, en Normandie.

Le narrateur

est un comédien formé au Conservatoire de Chambéry puis au cours de Françoise Seigner. Il a joué dans de nombreuses comédies:

de Feydeau,

de Labiche,

d'après Molière,

de Shakespeare, ainsi que dans des spectacles tout public:

,

ou

,

. Il a également abordé le théâtre contemporain avec deux créations de Marie Bertozzi:

et

qu'il a mis en scène. Philippe Colin pratique également le doublage pour de nombreux téléfilms, séries et dessins animés.

(P) et © Compagnie du Savoir

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Title: The Gunpowder Plot and The Babbling Butler

Subtitle: The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Episode #23

Author: Anthony Boucher, Denis Green

Narrator: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce

Format: Original Recording

Length: 1 hr and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-14-10

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The Gunpowder Plot

Exactly as broadcast on November 5, 1945

Will history repeat itself? On the Guy Fawkes holiday in 1899 Holmes and Watson encounter a murder plot with an amazing similarity to a famous case that is almost 300 years old. Can Holmes prevent a murder or will he become a victim himself?

The Babbling Butler

Exactly as broadcast on January 27, 1947

"I must say his actions tonight hardly seem the behavior of a sane man!" comments Dr. Watson on the peculiar musings of the babbling butler. Yet this is only the beginning, as Holmes and Watson find themselves drawn into an investigation of not one, but two tragic deaths.

Members Reviews:

couldn't finish it even though it's an hour

I knew I was purchasing old radio programs but if you have any sense in your head at all these will drive you crazy for their simplicity. They are not good examples of sherlock holmes - edited and cut and done in a silly fashion with irritating sounds effects. Did not enjoy.

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Title: Death in Captivity

Author: Michael Gilbert

Narrator: Garrard Green

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-06-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 11 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Death in captivity is a classic account of murder in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War II.

Michael Francis Gilbert ( 1912- 2006) is recognized as one of the most versatile British mystery writers. He was a lawyer in London for many years and at one point had Raymond Chandler as his client. He wrote almost every sort of mystery and thriller. He wrote police procedurals, spy novels and short stories, courtroom dramas, classical mysteries, crime novels, and almost every possible combination of these, all with the same competence and dry, detached wit. Gilbert was a founding member of the British Crime Writers Association, Named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America and was named Number 24 on The Telegraph's "50 crime writers to read before you die".

Members Reviews:

first try

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

some of it

Any additional comments?

this appears to be an early version of a michael gilbert novel retitled The Danger Within, in which he cut out the long tedious escape through italy part at the end and wound up neatly and dramatically with the mass escape and the discovery of the spy. Second version was much better, too bad you didn't record that one.