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Title: Philip Odell: Collected Cases - The Lady in a Fog

Subtitle: Classic Radio Crime

Author: Lester Powell

Narrator: Robert Beatty

Format: Original Recording

Length: 3 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-06-17

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

From 1958, The Lady in a Fog is an original radio crime drama starring Robert Beatty as Philip Odell. Such was the popularity of the eponymous radio detective that the series - which ran on the BBC Light Programme between 1947 and 1961 - spawned novels and even a 1951 feature film. Among the supporting cast of this thrilling eight-part serial are Mary Wimbush, James Thomason, John Bennett, Jeffrey Segal, June Tobin, David March, Trevor Martin and members of the BBC Drama Repertory Company.

Classic Radio Crime: presenting vintage detectives for your investigation!

Duration: 3 hours 50 mins approx.

Members Reviews:

Fantastic classic drama

I want to first start off by saying I am new to Philip Odell classical detective drama. Although I never been around in the time this was introduced in the radio, I still like it. I am a fan of old classical detective drama. I actually am a collector to this and hope to find other like this as well. I am proud that I purchase this and listen to this drama. I hope I get to see in the future that audible has more Philip Odell cases in radio drama form.

GOOD OLD CLEAN ENTERTAINMENT FROM THE PAST

This is an excellent listen for a lazy afternoon when you just need to flip out on the couch and relax for a few hours.

Good old English entertainment at its best. Should you like Paul Temple and Stevie, you are in for a good murder mystery as they made them way back in the old Hollywood style of the 40's & 50's.

Excellently produced. Great actors in the way they did it in the olden days! No modern larks here. Lots of characters to choose from to keep you on your toes for 'who did it & why'. Look forward to more of this type of drama.

A very good serial

I really enjoyed this story and was surprised to find that it didn't seem dated considering it was recorded in the 50's. Some very good actors Robert Beatty and Mary Wimbush. If I had to find fault it is a small, one explained at the beginning Philip O'Dell had spent some tome in USA, the Irish accent sometimes disappeared.

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Title: Partners of Peril (The Shadow)

Author: Maxwell Grant

Narrator: Angelo Di Loreto, Kevin Pariseau, Jonathan Davis, Marc Vietor, Jay Snyder, full cast

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 47 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-28-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 66 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

In this full-cast production of the classic pulp novel, The Shadow investigates as, one by one, the partners in a chemical company die mysterious deaths.

The plot of Partners of Peril and much of the action is almost identical to "The Case of the Chemical Syndicate", the very first Batman story in Detective Comics #27, which appeared some years later. In fact the creators of Batman acknowledged they drew their inspiration for the Caped Crusader from this classic Shadow story.

Members Reviews:

Original Pulpy Goodness Given a Fresh Spin!

This plays like a cross between a traditional audiobook and an old time radio show. Not quite either, this is the best multicast performance I've ever seen from Audible Studios. Enriched with sound effects, music, and few little tricks that harken back to the days of the Shadow radio show, this one is a tremendous amount of fun. Now, you have to understand what you are getting here. This is an original pulp novel from the 30's so the prose is a bit over the top, but fun? Oh boy, is this fun. Unleash your inner 10 year old for a few hours and enjoy this. I certainly hope Audible studios does more of these performances/readings with a full cast. There are more than 300 novels featuring the Shadow to choose from and the Doc Savage stories would lend themselves to this kind of treatment as well. C'mon Audible! You are on to something here! Keep them coming!

Finally! Classic Shadow Pulp on Audiobook

I was so surprised to see this up on audible. I never understood why there were no audiobooks of The Shadow Pulp novels. Hopefully this is just the beginning. Bring on the remaining 324 books!

The Shadow knows

Great audiobook, audible needs to add more of the adventures of the Shadow. I recommend this audiobook to all mystery and suspense

brings back memories!

Ever since I was a kid I loved The Shadow and now to be able to listen to these books, it rekindles that fascination with this character and his stories.

I found the story very interesting, absolutely love the detective style/ mad scientist.

the narrator did a fantastic job of telling the story, it was kind of like listening to a ghost story by a fire.

this book would definitely not be the same without its dramatization, the cast was fantastic as well as the sond effects.

overall I loved the book and I hope and pray that they do all of Maxwell grants works in this fashion! Thank you!

Good but slow

I like old radio shows this is something more for a person that has an idea what the shadow with he is the precursor of Batman but I'm a young guy I like old radio shows because my grandpa got me into them and whoever likes the old radio shows and things around that era joy this book

So if you don't know who the shadow is check out the radio show first and then you'll enjoy this book

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Title: The Stolen Child

Subtitle: A Novel

Author: Lisa Carey

Narrator: Caroline Lennon

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-07-17

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 19 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

From the author of the critically acclaimed The Mermaids Singing comes a haunting, luminous novel set on an enchanted island off the west coast of Ireland where magic, faith, and superstition pervade the inhabitants' lives and tangled relationships - perfect for fans of Eowyn Ivey, Sarah Waters, and Angela Carter.

May 1959. From one side of St. Brigid's Island, the mountains of Connemara can be glimpsed on the distant mainland; from the other, the Atlantic stretches as far as the eye can see. This remote settlement, without electricity or even a harbor, has scarcely altered since its namesake saint set up a convent of stone huts centuries ago. Those who live there, including sisters Rose and Emer, are hardy and resourceful, dependent on the sea and each other for survival. Despite the island's natural beauty, it is a place that people move away from, not to - until an outspoken American, also named Brigid, arrives to claim her late uncle's cottage.

Brigid has come for more than an inheritance. She's seeking a secret holy well that's rumored to grant miracles. Emer, as scarred and wary as Rose is friendly and beautiful, has good reason to believe in inexplicable powers. Despite her own strange abilities - or perhaps because of them - Emer fears that she won't be able to save her young son, Niall, from a growing threat. Yet Brigid has a gift too, even more remarkable than Emer's. As months pass and Brigid carves out a place on the island and in the sisters' lives, a complicated web of betrayal, fear, and desire culminates in one shocking night that will change the island, and its inhabitants, forever.

Steeped in Irish history and lore, The Stolen Child is a mesmerizing descent into old world beliefs, and a captivating exploration of desire, myth, motherhood, and love in all its forms.

Members Reviews:

My Favorite Author does it again

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

Lisa Carey always writes beautiful, haunting stories with just enough supernatural to keep you hooked and guessing where the story is going to go.

What about Caroline Lennons performance did you like?

Her accents were spot on and really brought the characters and the story itself even further to life.

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Title: The Case of the Grinning Gorilla

Subtitle: Perry Mason, Book 40

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 16 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-09-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Helen Cadmus was dead - but how had it happened?

Suicide, most people said. She jumped off that millionaire's yacht in a fit of despair, her body was never found, and the case was closed. The story was too neat to suit Perry Mason. It didn't add up. Somebody was concealing the truth about Helen's death, and how was going to uncover it even if it killed him.

That's how Mason fell into a trap set by three killers - two humans and one grinning gorilla!

Members Reviews:

Early Perry Mason, a gothic tale

This is early Perry Mason. It's a gothic tale set in a mad scientist's gorilla lab in the outskirts of Los Angeles. I'm not making that up. I don't think it ever showed up on the television series. There is a murder, and I'm not giving much away by revealing that Perry Mason, Della Street and Paul Drake are in on the solution. It has a bit of a Sax Roemer flavor, unlike a lot of Gardner's later work, but without the racism and sensationalism. Despite the dark subject matter of homicide and animal experimentation, it's fairly light reading. You won't face complex moral dilemmas or have awful nightmares. You'll just go on and grab the next Perry Mason novel.

A rather fun experience to read

A rather fun experience to read. Of course the ending did catch me, along with other first time readers of this book off guard.

A unique Perry Mason mystery

This one isn't solved in the court but it is unique Perry Mason just the same. A good read. Worth reading.

Five Stars

It's very entertaining and intriguing, can't put it down to find out the what the outcome is.

Three Stars

I'm typically a great fan of the Perry Mason series of books, but this one was just strange.

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Title: Sherlock Holmes: The Four Novels Collection

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Bert Coules

Narrator: Clive Merrison, full cast, Michael Williams

Format: Original Recording

Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-05-17

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Ltd.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Clive Merrison stars as Holmes, with Michael Williams as Watson, in these four adventures from the unique, fully dramatised BBC canon of Conan Doyle stories: A Study In Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Valley of Fear.

A Study in Scarlet introduces the most famous partnership in fiction, as Watson is drawn into Holmes' investigations following the discovery of a body in a blood-stained room in Brixton.

In The Sign of the Four, a beautiful young woman comes to Holmes with a mystery which is to stretch even his remarkable deductive skills.

The Hound of the Baskervilles finds Holmes and Watson travelling to Dartmoor to investigate the death of Sir Charles Baskerville and protect his heir. Are the Baskervilles being stalked by a satanic hellhound, or is the creature part of a sinister conspiracy?

In The Valley of Fear, a coded warning sends Holmes and Watson to the country house of the reclusive Jack Douglas. Arriving too late to prevent a tragic death, they must follow a series of bewildering clues to find a murderer who has vanished into thin air.

Brian Blessed, Judi Dench, Donald Sinden, Iain Glen and Ronald Pickup are among the guest cast of these thrilling dramas, adapted by Bert Coules. Duration: 7 hours, 50 minutes approx.

Members Reviews:

Holmes and Watson Come to Life

I grew up listening to these books. I remember my mother popping the cassette into the car stereo when I was young and play these stories along with all the Sherlock Holmes stories portrayed so masterfully by Clive Merrison and the late Michael Williams.

For start, you can certainly see an improvement in quality from "A Study in Scarlet" to "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and the "Valley of Fear." The voice acting, which has been lauded by critics, and the engrossing story have brought me back to listen to these again and again.

I highly recommend these for a long car ride or trip. They are entertaining, faithful to the original books, and thoroughly enjoyable.

Fantastic!

I love these actors. They are perfect in these roles. The play is so tightly woven with the original novels.

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Title: The Case of the Buried Clock

Subtitle: Perry Mason Series, Book 22

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

After catching his shady son-in-law, Jack Hardisty, in the act of embezzling, wealthy banker Vincente Blane plans to hang him out to dry. Then murder turns Blane's restful mountain retreat into Hardisty's final resting place.

When the evidence points to wronged wife Millicent, her father makes a point of calling in Perry Mason. And it's up to the legendary legal eagle to unravel the case's most baffling mystery: a buried clock at the murder scene. But as time runs short, the ticking of the clock sounds more and more like the rattling of family skeletons that everyone wants silenced....

Members Reviews:

WWII is causing wide-spread bloodshed, but on the Home Front murder is a family affair

It's 1943 and a soldier has been sent home on leave to recuperate from his wounds. Unfortunately, things are far from peaceful in the California mountain town. There's a wealthy industrialist and his two daughters and the oldest daughter's shady husband. First, an embezzlement becomes public knowledge, then there's a body, and (nearby) a buried clock set to the wrong time. And (of course) Perry Mason and his faithful, shrewd secretary Della Street are there to sort things out.

This is a peek into American life during the war years. Daylight Savings Time (called "War Time") has been introduced to save precious fuel. Drivers are urged to curtail travel and to drive at "tire conserving speeds." (Perry never does.) There's a tire rationing board and one major clue is the fact that only one of the suspects could have qualified for a new tire. And the street lights are doused to make cities and towns less attractive targets for air raids.

Like most novels written during the war, there's some heavy-handed patriotic propaganda and Gardner puts some speeches suited to a middle-aged writer into the mouths of his young characters. It's jarring, especially since he's normally clever about keeping his characters "in character."

One thing disturbs me. The case is a complicated one, and Perry just can't seem to get a grip on it. He follows several false trails and (although he's convinced of his client's innocence) he's on the ropes when it comes to trial. The D.A.'s office is openly gloating because THIS time Perry Mason doesn't have all of the inside information and THIS time they're going to beat him. In other words, they claim that he wins cases because his detective skill puts knowledge in his hands that would normally be known only by the police and the D.A.'s office.

Isn't "full disclosure" one of the basic principles of our legal system? I believe that both sides are required to disclose all evidence that will presented in the trial. Any surprises are reason to ask for a mistrial (or acquittal.) Was this not so in the mid-1900's?

Anyway, it's a pretty good mystery and the town has as nice a collection of slightly off-beat characters as Gardner ever dreamed up. Watching Perry almost defeated by the hot-shot young Assistant D.A.

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Title: The Case of the Lame Canary

Subtitle: Perry Mason Series, Book 11

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-29-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 7 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Do birds of a feather plot murder together?

The extraordinary Perry Mason never handles straightforward divorce cases, but this one is an especially strange bird. Rita Swaine is dating her sister's ex-boyfriend. Her sister, Rosalind, is married to shady insurance adjuster Walter Prescott, who's got dollar signs in his eyes and ice water in his veins. When Rita's beau gallantly steps in to warn Rosalind about her heinous husband's designs, Prescott hatches a plan to prey on them all...by suing for big profit.

For Mason, this case should be a lark. But when a murdered man is found in the Prescott home - and a nosy neighbor sings an incriminating song about illicit love and a hidden gun - legal eagle Mason suddenly finds himself defending a sitting duck.

Members Reviews:

Perry Mason seen the way the author created him.

I'm a huge fan of the Perry Mason TV series and have listened to the old radio dramas but the book gives depth to the characters I've not seen before. Perry is quite different from Raymond Burr' s portrayal, a bit more hard boiled at times. The story has all the twists and surprises that Mason is known for. Narrator has some unusual voices for some of the characters, Drake took some getting used too and the female characters were a little awkward but not too distracting.

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Title: The Case of the Vagabond Virgin

Subtitle: Perry Mason Series, Book 32

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-15-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Platinum blonde Veronica Dale is arrested on a charge of vagrancy. Yet, she has a hotel reservation in her name. Addison, head of a department store, booked the room for her and is now being blackmailed. Perry Mason can't decide who is hiding what. Then comes murder - and one of Perry Mason's toughest trials.

Members Reviews:

great book

what a great book..didn't Eden guess about the murderer till the end...I always enjoy Perry Mason books..

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Title: The Case of the Rolling Bones

Subtitle: Perry Mason Series, Book 15

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 39 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-21-16

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Unlucky in Love

Years ago Alden Leeds found a rich vein of gold in the Klondike. Now his greedy relatives fear he's planning to throw his fortune away on a gold-digging spouse, Emily Milicant. So to prevent the two from joining in holy matrimony, they commit their affluent kin to a sanitarium on a trumped-up charge.

Then Leeds escapes, only to end up in the company of Emily's blackmailing brother, John, a manufacturer of fixed dice, rolling bones that always come up seven. But when John is murdered - with Leeds's fingerprints found all over the apartment - Perry Mason must crack a baffling case before his client bumps from the nut house to the jail house....

Members Reviews:

Nostalgic fun

I was feeling nostalgic for the old tv show so decided to read this. It was fun to re-experience Perry, Della and Paul together, and the mystery was enjoyable. The book was written in 1939, if I remember correctly, and it was also fun -- even strange -- to travel back to a different time when people called police cars "prowl cars," might say "that's mighty white of you" upon receiving an unexpected favor and thought nothing about lighting up a cigarette (even in a courtroom). The word "cigarette" appears over 40 times in the book!

I read the book in spurts, and I found it a little difficult to follow - there were many characters, some with secrets and fake identities. It was also a little difficult to distinguish between what Perry knew, what he suspected and what he wanted others to think he knew. Perry's work was, as one character described it "a most remarkable piece of detective work, an example of sheer deductive genius."

Too long in getting to the court room.

Wanted a good read, not this one. It was too slow in getting to the real crime. I do give it a +3 out of 5.

Five Stars

My mom loves it!

Great plot which never unravels

Great plot which never unravels. I just wish ESG's dialogues were a bit more believable. His characters all use the same phrasing regardless of age, sex or education level. Otherwise, great!

I am once again reading Perry Mason after a gap ...

I am once again reading Perry Mason after a gap of 40 years and his books are still as engrossing as ever. "Unputdownable!" I had to reluctantly shut it late at night and go to bed.

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Title: The Cambridge Murders

Author: Glyn Daniel

Narrator: Peter Wickham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-17-16

Publisher: Soundings

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 50 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Fisher College at Cambridge lies between St Johns and Trinity Colleges. Here one morning the bed makers and gyps, clamouring for admission on the last day of term were admitted to find, lying across the path, the body of one of the college porters.

The murder of the porter begins a mystery which deepens when it is found that the unpopular Dean of the college is missing. The search for the murderer is conducted in part by the police and partly by the Vice President of Fisher College Sir Richard Cherrington, an eminent but slightly eccentric archaeologist with a penchant for amateur detection.

Members Reviews:

Enjoyable but overlong and repetitive

I was intrigued by the murder mystery in the book but the constant repetition of the clues and suspect statements made it hard to sustain my interest. The case is looked at by three different individuals, an eccentric college don and archaeologist, a local police inspector, and a Scotland Yard man. They spend so much of their time analyzing the same information, both internally and in spoken dialogue, that the story loses momentum and fizzles at the end. The reader sees little of an actual investigation.

I was especially taken aback when mild manner archeologist and Fisher College vice-president, Sir Richard Cherrington, goes off on a long diatribe about human suffering after he unmasks the killer. It was totally out of character.

Sherlock Would Be Proud

Good old fashioned detective work updated skillfully. A regular "Who Done It" written so smoothly updated that I didn't think of Sherlock until it was over.

The Cambridge Murders

To many caricatures and to many plots but I made it through to a excellent ending.

Really enjoyed a good, very British murder

The narrator was most excellent. Able to do many voices well. Am looking for other books with same.

Good Story Very Long Winded

so this was a VERY unnecessarily complicated story. they told and retold the story which I found tedious. otherwise I liked the characters and when they FINALLY got to the end it all seemed so simple.