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Title: Sherlock Holmes: The Musgrave Ritual

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Edward Raleigh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-05-09

Publisher: Audio Holdings, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

The butler of Reginald Musgrave, one of Holmes' former schoolmates, has disappeared, and the local police can't solve the case. Holmes travels to the Musgrave estate and once there not only discovers the butler, but also finds out about the origin of the centuries-old Musgrave Ritual.

(P)2009 Audio Holdings, LLC

Editorial Reviews:

The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual is unique in the cannon of Sherlock Holmes for being narrated by Holes himself rather than his friend and often biographer Dr. Watson. Watson introduces the tale and Holmes takes over relating the story of his friend whose butler goes missing a few days after being seen poring over one of the families locked-up documents. Edward Raleigh performs the audiobook, voicing Holmes as he describes almost pompously his methodology in piecing together the clues and solving the mystery.

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Title: Not Safe, But Good

Subtitle: Short Stories Sharpened by Faith

Author: Bret Lott

Narrator: Jon Gauger

Format: Abridged

Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-02-09

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

While put together from a Christian worldview, our goal isn't comfort food for Christians or G-rated stories that offer simplistic lessons. Instead, we're serving up stories sharpened by faith. Stories that will engage, challenge, entertain, and stretch the listener. These stories aren't necessarily safe...but without question, they are good.

From Homer Hickam, the best-selling author of Rocket Boys - which later became the movie October Sky - to editor and contributing best-selling author Bret Lott, this collection spans a talented community writing an eclectic blend of fiction. These stories will take you on a journey filled with lightheartedness, profundity, hilarity, tragedy...and ultimately hope.

Members Reviews:

Not Narnian in any way despite the Title & Cover, but still good.

The old idiom, "you can't judge a book by it's cover" definitely applies here. I tried, and failed. I thought this book would be more Narnian, and even after reading the introduction I wasn't fully prepared for the gravity of the stories included in this collection. After reading the first two chapters, I had to realign my expectations and approach the content differently. In hindsight the title is very fitting - these are not safe stories. This is not the kind of book that leaves you with warm and fuzzy feelings. The endings can be abrupt - raw even - and Aslan does not come roaring in to save the day... but He's there, if you look for Him.

Great book, but an unpleasant surprise

I enjoyed this book thoroughly when published as The Best Christian Short Stories in 2006 by WestBow Publishers. I ordered this book thinking it was a different book. Though the title is different, the book is identical to the one I already had and had read and had enjoyed throughly.

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Title: Dylan Thomas Reading

Author: Saland Publishing

Narrator: Dylan Thomas

Format: Abridged

Length: 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-12-08

Publisher: Saland Publishing

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

One of the world's greatest authors here reads a selection of his favourite literature.

©2008 Saland Publishing; (P)2008 Saland Publishing

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Title: Cannibalism In The Cars

Author: Mark Twain

Narrator: Gary Telles

Format: Unabridged

Length: 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-25-08

Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

"Cannibalism In The Cars" is a short story by Mark Twain that satirizes the political system of the US. The story is about a group of men trapped in a train during a snow storm. After a week, the men know they must resort to cannibalism for survival. They hold ineffective elections, and are so formal that they even follow parliamentary procedure.

(P)2008 Listen & Live Audio

Members Reviews:

I can't tell you how much I love this story!

This story is about a railroad car stranded in a snowstorm. The inhabitants discuss... cannibalism for survival, but approach the process by parliamentary rules of order, or what they think are parliamentary rules of order. I've had this little story on my iPod over 2 years, and stories come and stories go, but this one stays! I'm sure I listen to it at least once a month. It elicits the kind of laughter... well, not peals or gales or guffaws - more like the squeals of a pig! It is such absurd nonsense and so delightfully "full of it" (in more ways than one!). It just tickles my funnybone clear to the core!! If I were to recommend ANYTHING on Audible, it would be THIS, and one I consider a companion piece, also Twain, roughly titled, ""Private History of a Campaign That Failed." Put those on your iPod and you're fully equipped for any situation! Can't recommend either of them highly enough!! GREAT stuff! I downloaded ALL the Twain short stories (as well as O Henry, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London and some others), and these are the cream of the crop! Download this, and you, too, can squeal (in delight) like a pig!

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Title: The Indiscreet Letter

Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

Narrator: Steve Corona

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-08

Publisher: Listener's Digest Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Does love always find a way? Follow the "youngish girl" sitting next to a "traveling salesman" on the train, while on her way to meet a "secret love", uncertain as to what she might find.

©2007 Listener's Digest Inc; (P)2007 Listener's Digest Inc

Members Reviews:

Glimpse into life at turn of last century

Lovely character sketches with an open ending, I like to think a happy ending for the writer of a letter more inquisitive than indiscreet.

Close To Home

To accurately describe this book is ensuring one has their affairs in order, make good decisions in their lives. There are three main characters, and light reading. Captures all the essence of the era and being alone. Good story. Recommended for those who like short stories.

ABBOTT'S CHARACTER DESCRIPTIONS ALONE ARE WORTH THE READ!

AN INDISCREET LETTER by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott was published in 1915. It is a brief read...maybe an hour or so in duration...and is a sweet, delightful tale about three strangers who meet and converse on a train. The conversation predominantly takes place between the Traveling Salesman and the Youngish Girl. Yet the description of the Young Electrician is the most captivating and colorful of the three. If a reader solely reads the book for Abbott's character descriptions alone, this little nugget is worth a read.

Sweet story and insightful

Hey it was free on kindle and the reviews were so positive I thought why not. So glad I read it!!! The characters are incredibly well developed and they all have wonderful surprising stories. Abbott is another of those lost authors worth discovering.

Charming, witty, but also wise

It takes maybe an hour to read it, but it fully describes entire people's lives. The words stay with you long after finishing the story.

Also, written in a beautiful language, full of witty metaphors that make the text, although short, full of substance.

I'm so glad I gave it a try.

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Title: The First Christmas Tree

Subtitle: A Story of the Forest

Author: Henry Van Dyke

Narrator: Ken Eaken

Format: Unabridged

Length: 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-08

Publisher: Listener's Digest Inc.

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

It is the same old story of the struggle between the old and the new. This tale, portrayed in the dark detail of the eighth-century, tells of old foresters, who desire to cling to the past, and a bright, young Christian who comes to teach them about the birth of Christ.

©2007 Listener's Digest Inc; (P)2007 Listener's Digest Inc

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Title: Clean as a Whistle

Author: Bruce Coville

Narrator: Bruce Coville

Format: Unabridged

Length: 28 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-11-07

Publisher: Full Cast Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

When the messiest kid in Minnesota is saddled with her family's obsessively tidy brownie, the sparks are sure to fly. Warning: you may not want to listen in public, since this story will have you laughing out loud!

©1995 Bruce Coville; (P)2006 Full Cast Audio

Editorial Reviews:

Bagpipe music appropriately opens this charming yarn. Full Cast Audio does a flawless job bringing Bruce Coville's believable and entertaining words to life. Jamie Carhart's mother proclaims that her daughter has the messiest room in town. Soon Jamie is shocked when she discovers that her room is spotlessly clean. The "culprit" is a tiny brown blur who announces in an exuberant Scottish accent, "I'm a brownie, as any fool can see". The Great Slob War begins as he and Jamie battle until the brownie disappears. When Jamie finds the brownie crying (both moving and funny), they come to a truce. Zesty bagpipe music closes this lesson in friendship and compromise.

Members Reviews:

Cute

Any additional comments?

Bruce does some great kids and young adult books. this short story might help your kids keep their rooms clean. :)

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Title: A Merry Band of Murderers

Author: Jeffery Deaver, John Lescroart, Jim Fusilli, more

Narrator: Tom Weiner, James Adams, Pam Ward

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-07

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 2.5 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Enjoy stories from Mary Anna Evans, Jim Fusilli, Bill Moody, Rupert Holmes, Rhys Bowen, John Lescroart, Nathan Walpow, Peter Robinson, Jeffery Deaver, Tom Corcoran, Val McDermid, Claudia Bishop, and Don Bruns. Each story is accompanied by a short introduction, song lyrics, and an interview with the writer.

Members Reviews:

Waste of Time

This sounded like an amazingly good idea: songs that inspire short stories.

Well, the lyrics are here, but not the music.

So we are left with narrators, who sound like complete amateurs, reading the lyrics.

Oh, and there are "interviews" with the authors. The "interviews" consist of the same set of questions in the same order asked of each author.

Don't waste your time and money on this one.

Where's the music?

While there are indeed numerous short mysteries, all based on music, this recording does not include the musical score. Consequently it is a disappointing listen whith stories ranging from absurd, to delightful. Felt I wasted my time and money.

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Title: The Adventure of the Norwood Builder

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Walter Covell

Format: Unabridged

Length: 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-16-07

Publisher: Jimcin Recordings

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 14 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

"The Adventure of the Norwood Builder" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was the second tale published in The Return of Sherlock Holmes in 1903.

© and (P)1983 Jimcin Recordings

Editorial Reviews:

From the first line of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles The Adventure of the Norwood Builder, audiobook master performer Walter Covell expertly differentiates his voice between everyones favorite spy, Sherlock Holmes, and everyones favorite spys assistant, Dr. Watson. In this briskly told and briskly plotted audiobook, Covell and Doyle bring the listener into the mysterious details surrounding the murder of Jonas Oldacre, the Norwood builder, and John Hector McFarlane, a lawyer with evidence stacking up against him. With plot twists and colourful characters, The Adventure of the Norwood Builder is a Sherlock Holmes classic.

Members Reviews:

great

Excellent reading of Holmes story.

Wonderful

I've heard this narrator before and he does a wonderful job

with Sherlock Holmes stories. Five Stars.

Enjoyed it but...

I enjoyed this story but it really jumped to the conclusion. I couldn't follow all of the assumptions of innocence. Great narration.

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Title: The False Jewels

Author: Guy de Maupassant

Narrator: Cindy Hardin Killavey

Format: Unabridged

Length: 14 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-26-07

Publisher: Jimcin Recordings

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

In "The False Jewels", a man who dotes on his wife is crushed by her unexpected death and then astounded by a revelation about her costume jewelry.

Editorial Reviews:

Guy de Maupassant was never chided for his rosy outlook on the human heart. In this audiobook presentation of his classic short story The False Jewels, veteran performer Cindy Hardin Killavey tells the sad tale of Monsieur Lantin, a French man of meager means, and his love for a poor country girl who has moved to Paris to find a husband. She is a perfect type of the virtuous woman whom every sensible young man dreams of one day winning for life. Her simple beauty had the charm of angelic modesty... But all is not what it seems and the listener is left to wonder which is better: imagined happiness or actual misery.

Critic Reviews:

"A writer who is rich in experience and has had success in a very rare degree....His gifts are remarkably strong and definite." (Henry James)