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Title: Glory Blast

Author: T. T. Flynn

Narrator: John Hitchcock

Format: Unabridged

Length: 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-09

Publisher: Audio Holdings, LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Short in size, Two Bit Higgins beats up the much bigger Dandy Barker in a bar fight in an southern Arizona gold-mining town. He is then named a deputy sheriff, also showing how dangerous he is with a gun. Then Barker comes back for revenge. How long will it be before Barker and his gang come looking for Two Bit and the show down?

©1998 Thomas B. Flynn, M.D. Published by arrangement with Golden West Literary Agency.; (P)2009 Audio Holdings, LLC

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Title: The Adventure of the Six Napoleons

Subtitle: Sherlock Holmes

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Edward Raleigh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 48 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-09

Publisher: Audio Holdings, LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

A lunatic is roaming London, seeking out and smashing Napoleonic sculpted busts. Holmes wonders, is he as addled as he seems, or is there a method to his madness?

(P)2009 Audio Holdings, LLC

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Title: Bad-Eye

Subtitle: His Life & Letters

Author: Max Brand

Narrator: Christopher Graybill

Format: Unabridged

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-09

Publisher: Audio Holdings, LLC

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Here is a classic example of Max Brand's delineation of the myths of the Old West: bad men, half-breeds, grand stallions, backbreaking ranch work, and bar room brawls.

©1994 the Frederick Faust Trust. The name Max Brand is a registered trademark with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and cannot be used without express permission. Published by arrangement with Golden West Literary Agency.; (P)2009 Audio Holdings, LLC

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Title: The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor

Subtitle: Sherlock Holmes

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Edward Raleigh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-09

Publisher: Audio Holdings, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

The bride of Lord St. Simon disappears on the day of their marriage. Holmes and Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard are both called to help. Who will be the first to solve this mystery?

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Editorial Reviews:

"The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor" shows Sherlock Holmes at his best, solving a mystery that has stumped both Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade. The story appeared in Arthur Conan Doyle's first collection, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892), and it has been adapted multiple times for television.

Renowned and prolific audiobook performer Edward Raleigh negotiates diverse voices, from lordly victims to savvy investigators, with his usual finesse. When an American bride disappears from her wedding reception, only Holmesian deduction - and crystalline British narration - can save the day. This story is also remarkable for its inclusion of American cultural touchstones in the Wild West.

Members Reviews:

Nice plot, another good short story with Sherlock Holmes

Another fascinating adventure from Sherlock Holmes short story series, this one with a very interesting plot: The story entails the disappearance of Hatty, Lord St. Simon's bride on the day of their marriage. She participates in the wedding, but disappears from the reception.

The events of the wedding day are most perplexing to Lord St. Simon as it seemed to him that his bride, Miss Hatty Doran of San Francisco, was full of enthusiasm about their impending marriage. St. Simon tells Holmes that he noticed a change in the young lady's mood just after the wedding ceremony. She was uncharacteristically sharp with him. The only thing out of the ordinary at the church where the wedding took place was Hatty's little accident: she dropped her wedding bouquet and a gentleman in the front pew picked it up and handed it back to her.

After the bridal party entered Hatty's father's house for the wedding breakfast, a former companion of St. Simon, the dancer Flora Millar, caused a disturbance at the door and was ejected. Hatty was seen talking to her maid upon arrival at the house; ten minutes into the wedding breakfast, Hatty claimed "a sudden indisposition" and retired to her room. A short time later, it was discovered that she had left the house.

There are many questions that Holmes must sift through. Who was that woman trying to get in to the wedding breakfast? Who was that man in the front pew? Who was that man seen going into Hyde Park with Hatty? Why were Hatty's wedding dress and ring found washed up on the shore of the Serpentine? What had become of her?

For Holmes it proves rather an elementary case, for he has dealt with similar cases and this one is not so complex to unravel, despite the confusion it causes Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade. Holmes finds Hatty and the strange man from the front pew, and the dénouement takes the form of Holmes having Hatty explain herself to Lord Robert. Hatty and the mystery man, Francis H. Moulton, were husband and wife. They parted on the day of their wedding so that he could try to amass a fortune by prospecting. He was reported killed in an Apache raid on a mining camp where he was working. Hatty had given him up for dead, met Lord Robert, and decided to marry him, even though her heart still belonged to Frank.

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Title: The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb: Sherlock Holmes

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Edward Raleigh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-09

Publisher: Audio Holdings, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Very odd happenings cause a hydraulic engineer to lose his thumb - and lead Holmes and Watson to a band of criminals.

(P)2009 Audio Holdings, LLC

Editorial Reviews:

"The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb" (1892) was one of the 12 short stories that made up Arthur Conan Doyle's first collection, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The plot involves a mysterious machine and its murderous operator, who hires an engineer to make repairs at the expense of the engineer's thumb.

Edward Raleigh, one of the aliases of "Golden Voice" performer David Case, performs the story. Raleigh narrated over 700 books before his death in 2005, and he once declared, "I really believe I was born to record audiobooks". Both Raleigh's superior talent and his passion are strikingly evident in the Sherlock Holmes series, wherein each Victorian voice comes rhythmically and ecstatically to life.

Members Reviews:

Five Stars

Loved it

Another Superb Sherlock Holmes' Short Story

Another superb short story from Sir Doyle. Plot is quite interesting:

In his narration, Dr. Watson notes that this is one of only two cases which he personally brought to the attention of Sherlock Holmes.

The story, set in 1889, mainly consists of a young London consultant hydraulic engineer, Mr. Victor Hatherley, recounting strange happenings of the night before, first to Dr. Watson, who dresses the stump where Mr. Hatherley's thumb has been cut off, and then to Sherlock Holmes himself.

Hatherley had been visited in his office by a man who identified himself as Colonel Lysander Stark. He offered Hatherley a commission at a country house, to examine a hydraulic press used, as Stark explains, to compress fuller's earth into bricks. Stark warned Hatherley to keep the job confidential, offering him 50 guineas (Â52 10s, an enormous sum at the time, worth over Â4000 today[1]). Hatherley felt compelled to take this work, despite his misgivings, as his business was newly established and he had very little work.

Upon arriving late at night at the appointed train station, Hatherley is met by Colonel Stark and is driven a considerable distance in a carriage with frosted glass windows to the house where he is to examine the machine. (A minor detail is that the house was actually quite near the station; Holmes realizes that the carriage drove "six [miles] out and six back" to disguise the house's location from Hatherley.) Hatherley is still under the spell of the 50 guineas and does not become afraid even when a woman at the house warns him to flee. He is presently shown the press and makes his recommendations as to needed repairs. Then, he rashly decides to inspect the press more closely. His discovery that its floor is covered by a "crust of metallic deposit" confirms his suspicion that the machine is not used for pressing fuller's earth. Hatherley narrowly escapes getting crushed to death when Stark turns the machine on him, but he escapes the press with the aid of the woman. Pursued by the murderous Stark, Hatherley is forced to jump from a second story window, in the process getting his thumb severed by Stark's cleaver.

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Title: The Adventure of Black Peter

Subtitle: Sherlock Holmes

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Edward Raleigh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-09-09

Publisher: Audio Holdings, LLC

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a gruesome harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he greatly admires as a mentor, for some help. Holmes has already determined that it would take a great deal of strength and skill to run a man through with a harpoon and embed it in the wall behind him besides.

(P)2009 Audio Holdings, LLC

Editorial Reviews:

"The Adventure of Black Peter" is the only short story from Arthur Conan Doyle's third collection that sees Sherlock Holmes hurling harpoons and disguising himself as a seaman. Hence it is clearly one of his finest works. There is even a Holmes fan club in Missouri called "The Harpooners of the Sea Unicorn", inspired by an entity in this mysterious tale.

No story from Doyle's canon would be complete without Watson's narration, and in "Black Peter" Holmes' beloved associate is brought to life by the late Edward Raleigh. Raleigh's beautiful accents, magnificent range, and ability to disappear into the background make him a performer worthy of his captain's chest worth of narration awards.

Members Reviews:

An interesting short story

An interesting short story of Mr. Holmes solving a murder of a rather disagreeable old sailor with the aid of a young detective.

Another nice plot!

This is a good story with a nice plot: Forest Row in the Weald is the scene of a gruesome harpoon murder, and a young police inspector, Stanley Hopkins, asks Holmes, whom he admires, for help. Holmes has already determined that it would take a great deal of strength and skill to run a man through with a harpoon and embed it in the wall behind him.

Peter Carey, the 50-year-old victim and former master of the Sea Unicorn of Dundee, was a most unpleasant man, especially when he was drunk. He had a reputation for being violent, even having been prosecuted once for assaulting the local vicar. His daughter is actually glad that he is dead. She and her mother have endured years of abuse from the old whaler and sealer, who moreover had some remarkably peculiar habits. He did not sleep in the family house, but in an outhouse that he built some distance from the house, and which he decorated to look like a sailorâs cabin on a ship. This is where he was found harpooned. Hopkins could find no footprints or other physical evidence.

A tobacco pouch was, however, found at the scene, made of sealskin and with the initials âP. C.â, and also full of strong shipâs tobacco. This is curious, as Peter Carey â Black Peter as people called him â seldom smoked. Indeed, Hopkins found no pipe in the cabin.

The only clue from an eyewitness comes from a stonemason named Slater, who says that he saw the shadow of a head on the blind in one of Careyâs cabin windows, and he is sure that it was not Carey. The next day, Carey was in his foulest mood, and then early the next morning, at about two oâclock, his daughter heard a scream from the direction of the cabin, but took no notice. Carey often screamed when he was drunk. The murder was not discovered until about midday, when the ladies summoned enough courage to look in on him. Hopkins was soon on the scene.

Carey was fully dressed, suggesting that he was expecting a visit, and there was some rum laid out along with two dirty glasses. There were brandy and whisky, too, but neither had been touched.

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Title: Sherlock Holmes

Subtitle: The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Edward Raleigh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-05-09

Publisher: Audio Holdings, LLC

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

A beautiful woman bicycles down a lonely road, not knowing of the vile plots being launched against her. Has she talked to Holmes in time? A young music teacher terrorized by the mysterious figure who follows her as she bicycles appeals to Holmes, who is very nearly too late to save her from a monstrous fate.

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Title: The Bells of San Carlos

Author: Max Brand

Narrator: Cat Parker

Format: Unabridged

Length: 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-09

Publisher: Audio Holdings, LLC

Ratings: 1 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

"The whip had cut him like a knife in a dozen places...." But the friar still won't talk about church gold. Is there any chance of mercy from the horrifying leader of the tomb robbers?

(P)2009 Audio Holdings, LLC

Members Reviews:

Thought I Bought Big Print

I ordered a western book for my 86 year old father-in-law who is having vision problems and would like read again. We wanted to buy him a western that is printed in Big Print Type Face about 14 or bigger type face. So we went to the vendor that said they had this book in a large size type. Well, I was sadly disappointed when we not only received the book and it was NOT large print and in fact it was a library book and too small a print face for my father-in-law to read. The total cost was about $4.95 including shipping, so I guess I should have been alerted to the low price and what that might mean. I am disappointed that we did not get a western book that is large print. I think that Amazon's search engine sent me to the wrong resource.

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Title: Sherlock Holmes

Subtitle: The Adventure of the Three Students

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Edward Raleigh

Format: Unabridged

Length: 37 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-09

Publisher: Audio Holdings, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

Sherlock Holmes finds himself in a famous university town (probably either Oxford or Cambridge). A locked room that contains a university exam has apparently been broken into. The college and the whole university could wind up under a cloud if the cheater is not found and dealt with quickly, and Holmes is called in. With very few clues remaining, can he find the cheaters?

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Title: Burn Him Out

Author: Frank Bonham

Narrator: John Hitchcock

Format: Unabridged

Length: 36 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-04-09

Publisher: Audio Holdings, LLC

Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies

Publisher's Summary:

A massive swarm of grasshoppers threatens every ranch in the area. There's only one way to save everyone - set fire to one man's land. But they may have to shoot him first.

©1977 Frank Bonham; (P)2009 Audio Holdings, LLC