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Title: The Reticence of Lady Anne

Author: Hector Hugh Munro, "Saki"

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-20-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Edwardian satirist Hector Hugh Munro (1870-1916), who wrote under the pseudonym Saki tells the story of an unusual three-way domestic dispute between Egbert, his wife Lady Anne, and Don Tarquinio the cat. As often happens with Saki, there is a cynical twist at the end.

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Title: The Sign of the Four

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Tony Evans

Narrator: Rob Penman

Format: Abridged

Length: 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-15-15

Publisher: Real Reads

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

"I find myself in a very strange and mysterious situation."

When Miss Mary Morstan is invited to meet a secretive stranger, she asks Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to help her.

Captain Morstan has disappeared from his hotel without a trace. Should Miss Morstan dare to hope that her father is still alive?

What horrible scene awaits the famous detective and his friend when they break down the door to Bartholomew Sholtos attic room? Who is the man with the wooden leg, and why is he so full of bitterness and hatred?

Will Toby, the cleverest tracker dog in London, help Holmes and Watson solve one of their most difficult cases?

Members Reviews:

Good fun book

I enjoy Sherlock Holmes books and movies. This was a good fun one to read. Good plot and I like books that take place in that time of history.

A Absolute Must Read... also Kindle Version Review

First of all this is a wonderful story and the second in the Holmes canon. This not a short story but a novel, actually the second novel (total of 4 novels) with the other 50+ stories being short stories. This ideally should be read second, afterA Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1)(where Watson and Holmes meet). Sign of Four is where Watson meets his wife but that is not the focus of the strory. After reading The Sign of Four, and assuming you are still into reading SH, and you will be, your next book should ideally be the short stories in theThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. This is the order in which they were written and the character introduced to readers in the late 19th century.

This work is a real page turner with 12 chapters - the 12th and final chapter takes up almost 25% of the novel and is the back story which shows the motivation and context for the crime - much like part 2 in Study in Scarlet. The story begins by introducing us to Holmes between cases, where he may sit around all day, everyday, injecting himself with his 7% solution of cocaine to pass the time. Yes, cocaine was legal back then and even Freud prescribed it to patients and used it himself - no wonder he was obsessed with sex. Of course once a case comes his way he no longer needs cocaine or morphine to pass the time and becomes energized unravelling subtle clues missed by Scotland Yard's best. Here is an excerpt...

"My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession,--or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world." "The only unofficial detective?" I said, raising my eyebrows. "The only unofficial consulting detective," he answered. "I am the last and highest court of appeal in detection..."

Regarding this Kindle edition three points. 1) It is well formatted 2) there are NO illustrations in this free version and 3) 'on my Kindle' you cannot 'Go To' the Table of contents directly but there is a TOC. However, once at the TOC page there are no usable links to each chapter but strangely there are links to each chapter on the Kindle app for both my Mac and my iPhone but I read this story on my new Kindle. No big deal just useful to know but you can't beat the price.

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Title: At the Farmhouse

Author: E. F. Benson

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-12-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost and horror stories.

At the Farmhouse tells the story of a landscape painter, who after twenty years of hideous marriage to an abusive and drunken local woman who is rumoured to be a witch, sets off to murder her. In his pocket is a ball of strong twine with which he will strangle her, and a box of matches with which he will set light to the farmhouse to destroy the evidence of his crime. After that he will be free...What happens when he reaches the farmhouse is gruesome, uncanny and totally unexpected.

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Title: The Face

Author: E. F. Benson

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 35 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-12-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Edward Frederic Benson (1867 - 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known as the true master of the gothic occult story.

The Face tells the story of a woman, Hester, who has a strange recurring nightmare. The night before the nightmare she dreams of walking a path across fields, over wooden stiles, through a wind-blown wood, to a grey stone church at the top of the cliff. The next night she always has a nightmare about being at the base of the same cliff and an eerie horrifying man's face appears and tells her that he will be coming for her. After these nightmares, Hester always awakes screaming. Then one day, Hester finds out who the strange hideous man in the nightmare is... and the mystery deepens.

The nightmares increase in frequency until a doctor prescribes a rest cure at the seaside. But a walk along the cliff-top brings Hester to uncannily familiar territory... it is the landscape of her dream, where she knows the terrifying man is waiting for her.

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Title: The Horror-Horn

Author: E. F. Benson

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 32 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-12-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Edward Frederic Benson (1867 - 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known as the true master of the gothic occult story.

The Horror-Horn tells the story of a skiing holiday in the shadow of the mysteriously named Ungeheuerhorn mountain. Literally the name translates as "Horror-Horn". It appears that a local legend has it that hideous and terrifying monsters live in caves high up on the mountain.

These monsters are primitive creatures... possibly an early stage of evolution of human beings, but wild, savage, malevolent. Moreover, the legend has it that they violently rape any human, male or female who they can manage to catch.When the narrator of this story loses his way on the mountain as dusk is falling, he soon finds himself pursued by an abonimable female monster, bent on having her evil way with him.

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Title: The Step

Author: E. F. Benson

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-12-15

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Edward Frederic Benson (1867 - 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer, best known as the true master of the gothic ghost story.

The Step tells the bizarre and terrifying tale of a British money-lender in Alexandria who is aware of uncanny footsteps following him as he walks home from his club at nights. Initially he ignores the footsteps... then he plucks up courage to challenge the invisible follower... then finally he meets the mysterious follower and what he sees sends him running up the street in sheer terror. But worse is yet to come...

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Title: The Terror by Night

Author: E. F. Benson

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-18-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his masterly and uncanny ghost stories.

The Terror by Night describes a strange and uncanny haunting which is simultaneously experienced by multiple different witnesses in entirely separate ways... each of them receiving a part of the whole picture, but none able to understand its import individually. When the various pieces are put together, the meaning is terrifying.

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Title: Bagnell Terrace

Author: E. F. Benson

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 30 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-18-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist, and short story writer, best known for his evocative and beautifully narrated ghost stories.

Bagnell Terrace is the tale of a very strange but highly desirable house. The narrator who lives on the same street, has always coveted it because of its fine square front room, and when the property is unexpectedly offered for sale, he jumps at the chance to buy it. Oddly enough, nobody has ever observed the previous enigmatic owner leave. The house has an odd dusty aromatic smell. But much more sinister still are the strange footsteps which appear on the wet pavement and lead straight to the front door. The events which follow are both fascinating and terrifying.

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Title: The Earl, the Warder and the Wayward Heiress

Author: J. S. Fletcher

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 51 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-15-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Joseph Smith Fletcher (1863 1935) was a British journalist and author. He wrote more than 230 books on a wide variety of subjects, both fiction and non-fiction. He was one of the leading writers of detective fiction in the Victorian "Golden Age" of the short story.

"The Earl, the Warder and the Wayward Heiress" is the story of a ten-thousand-pound bet between young gentlemen in their club. The Earl of Normanstowe undertakes to walk out of the club at eight o'clock that evening, and given a sixteen hour start, to disappear for the period of exactly one month without leaving London.

Sir Charles Wrigge undertakes to track him down within the month. Normanstowe's plan for his concealment is certainly novel... but the outcome of his adventure is anything but what he expected.

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Title: The Gardener

Author: E. F. Benson

Narrator: Cathy Dobson

Format: Unabridged

Length: 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-04-14

Publisher: Red Door Audiobooks

Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:

Hugh and Margaret Grainger have rented a lovely old house near an excellent golf course. At the bottom of the garden is a strange, well-kept, but untenented thatched cottage.

A visitor to the Graingers has a strange and overwhelming presentiment on passing the cottage that the house is actually not empty. Indeed, on several occasions he seems to see a light in the cottage. And one evening he thinks he sees a figure entering the house. But every attempt to investigate confirms that the cottage is abandoned.

Margaret Grainer is an enthusiast for communicating with the spirit world via the planchette. When she starts receiving peculiar messages from someone calling himself the gardener everyone is intrigued but sceptical. But then the gardener announces his wish to enter the house... and catapults the inhabitants of the house into a strange and terrifying spiral of events.