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Titre: Le septième templier (Antoine Marcas 7)

Auteur: Éric Giacometti, Jacques Ravenne

Narrateur: Julien Chatelet

Format: Unabridged

Durée: 14 hrs

Langue: Français

Date de publication: 05-04-17

Éditeur: Audible Studios

Evaluation: 5 sur 5 sur 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Résumé de l'éditeur:

Sept templiers, trois portes, une seule vérité.

1307. Le roi Philippe le Bel et le pape Clément V ordonnent l'anéantissement total de l'Ordre du Temple. Mais dans l'ombre des commanderies, sept templiers vont organiser sa survivance par-delà les siècles. De nos jours, le commissaire franc-maçon Antoine Marcas reçoit l'appel désespéré d'un mystérieux frère, sur le point d'être assassiné, qui lui transmet la piste d'un secret fabuleux : le trésor des templiers. Au même moment à Saint-Pierre de Rome, le pape s'apprête à bénir la foule quand il est abattu par un tireur d'élite...

Du Paris initiatique aux arcanes occultes du Vatican, découvrez dans le nouveau Giacometti et Ravenne les étapes codées d'un parcours ésotérique, placé sous le signe de la croix du Temple...

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Title: Murder in the Museum

Author: John Rowland

Narrator: Peter Wickham

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-01-17

Publisher: Soundings

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 32 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When Professor Julius Arnell breathes his last in the British Museum Reading Room, it looks like death from natural causes. Who, after all, would have cause to murder a retired academic? Inspector Shelley's suspicions are aroused when he finds a packet of poisoned sugared almonds in the dead man's pocket, and a motive becomes clearer when he discovers Arnell's connection to a Texan oil millionaire. Soon another man plunges hundreds of feet into a reservoir on a Yorkshire moor. What can be the connection between the two deaths? Mild-mannered museum visitor Henry Fairhurst adds his detective talents to Inspector Shelley's own, and together they set about solving one of the most baffling cases Shelley has ever encountered.

Members Reviews:

Artfully done sleuthing

Really enjoyed spending time with the charming characters in this book. Twists and turns and easy on the ears narrator.

Dated take

I enjoyed listening to this tale if only because it when it was written and because the narrator is excellent. However the plot is the and the characters are never developed

fairly tedious

there's a reason why some books have been out of print for 70 years.

despite being set partly in the British museum, near which I live now, and partly in Sheffield where I was raised I found it difficult to engage with this dull grind of a story.

however it was very well read by Peter Wickham who is one of the best narrators around

Pleasant diversion

A light read but enjoyable. Some nice touches of humour and well characterised - dont expect too much from the plot.

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Title: The Case of the Singing Skirt

Subtitle: Perry Mason Series, Book 58

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Ellen Robb does more than just sing for her supper - she also dances and sells cigarettes in a two-bit gambling parlor in a one-horse town. But when she hits a sour note with her scheming employer by refusing to help fleece a fat-cat customer in a crooked card game, she finds herself out of all three jobs. That's when she sings her song of woe to Perry Mason, who promises to turn her blues into greenbacks with the help of his crack team, Della Street, and Paul Drake, and a hefty lawsuit.

Things are humming along just fine - until murder interrupts the merry melody of Mason's crafty legal maneuvers. When the vindictive wife of Ellen Robb's not-so-secret lover turns up shot to death, Mason is certain it's a frame-up - and that his songbird client's belligerent boss is to blame. Until his own gun is found at the scene. The cocksure Mason will have to change his tune - and do some quick thinking - or else this case could be his swan song.

Members Reviews:

Best of the Best?

This may be the best of the ten Perry Mason mysteries I've recently read on Kindle. It's got a real mystery, a problem with duplicate guns (not just two, but as many as four) that Mason and the reader both have to concentrate to solve. It has some real-life legal precedents, honest-to-goodness genuine law cases, which carry the story along and get Mason into big trouble, and it has a client who absolutely must be guilty, until Mason discovers the one way she might not be.

Wow.

Let's go into the few bad things that can be said about it. The tv series had been running for a couple of years when this book came out, and the business of somebody jumping up out of the courtroom audience and confessing, just because of Mason's eloquence, was a national joke. Well, there's something like that in the SINGING SKIRT.

The tv series also gives us a DA, Hamilton Burger (Ham Burger, get it?) who is so mad at Mason winning all his cases against him that he wants to get Mason disbarred much more than he wants to win whatever case is presently on hand. The fact that Mason wins all his cases because the DA's office is criminally careless about prosecuting innocent people -- hey, that point never even comes up.

There's an overly confusing plot, which other reviewers here have complained about, but lots of Mason books have those, because they come from the golden era of the detective story, when plots were supposed to be confusing. Writers like Ellery Queen would discuss their plot confusions over and over, and at great length, until they were hammered into their readers' minds, but Mason is an action hero, and while his plots and solutions are often tight and interesting, he doesn't have time to repeat his plot points until they're completely clear; all that would just slow his story down.

In SINGING SKIRT, as in Ellery Queen, the solution requires people to take risks of getting caught that no one would have the nerve to take in real life, so you could call that a typical failing of the golden age detective story.

But on the good side, there's quite a lot. Erle Stanley Gardner did use the kind of gun-substitution tricks Perry Mason uses -- used them in real-life criminal trials where he was the defense attorney.

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Title: The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll

Subtitle: Perry Mason Series, Book 55

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Engaged to a dynamic young go-getter on his way up the corporate ladder, secretary Mildred Crest was riding high. Until her prince charming embezzled company funds and skipped town, leaving Mildred with nothing but a ring on her finger and egg on her face. Now all she wants is to start life over again and when a fateful drive leads to the death of a lone hitchhiker, Mildred gets that chance. But this is not the sweet escape she thought it would be when the life she's adopted takes an even darker turn for the worse....Oh the agony of deceit....

Members Reviews:

another good one

Yes, another good one. More complicated than earlier ones (I'm reading them in order), but Perry is still taking chances to find the truth and protect his client.

A Gem!

Mason and Della encounter death on their cruise from Hawaii. Beautifully told, with unusual, for ESG, sardonic humor. The romantic angle does not interfere. All in all a masterpiece of invention. If one would like a sample of ESG'S work an excellent choice.

I love Perry Mason and pulp fiction

I love Perry Mason and pulp fiction, so I'm cool with this. Just remember that it IS pulp fiction.

Great read

Another favorite book!

Great plot

Moves through the story line steadily, and the pieces of the puzzle dovetail neatly toward the end. The keen intellect and insights of Perry Mason are fascinating to follow. The TV character pales by comparison. The best way to appreciate the immense talent of Mr. Gardner - read the books!

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Title: The Case of the Reluctant Model

Subtitle: Perry Mason Series, Book 66

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Art student Maxine Lindsay, as the guest of her mentor, art dealer Colin Durant, attends a reception aboard the yacht of millionaire Otto Olney , who is unveiling his newest purchase, a $130,000 Gauguin. When Durant confides that the painting is a fake, Maxine becomes involved in a complicated series of deceptions. Soon gallery owner Leslie Rankin threatens Maxine. Perry Mason is called in, a beatnik artist is accused of painting the fake, and Durant is found fully clothed in Maxine's shower, shot dead with her pistol.

Members Reviews:

Great legal murder mystery set in the 1950s/1960s Los Angeles art world

I got into Perry Mason back when the original television series was on the air. Later I started enjoying the novels. Now, there's a certain period charm to these clever legal mysteries set in the Los Angeles of fading mass transit, apartment buildings, telephone operators, beatniks living in lofts, mining speculators and the gutter press. Perry Mason has a reputation as a defendant's lawyer in murder cases, but not every case he takes involves murder. In this book, it's a defamation suit in the Los Angeles art world. As usual, someone is murdered, and Mason, with is legal secretary, Della Street, and his poor overworked private detective, Paul Drake, has the struggle to stay ahead of the game. It takes brainpower, legwork and legal acumen to figure out what is going on, but Perry Mason again comes through.

Another great read! I gave five stars in spite of ...

Another great read! I gave five stars in spite of the typographical errors which seem to be common in all Kindle books.

Poor scanning job

An okay Perry Mason thriller, but such a poor scanning job that the very frequent errors were distracting and annoying. On several occasions I had to stop and puzzle out what the missing or wrong words were supposed to be or, due to missing quotation marks and paragraphing errors, whether the same or another person was speaking. Obviously the book was run through the scanner with no proofing or concern about quality.

It kept me engaged

I did figure it out before the ending but I really enjoyed the process. I love the mental challenge it gave.

Go back in time relive the 1940's

Erle Stanley Gardner is fabulous quick read mystery.

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Title: The Case of the Mythical Monkeys

Subtitle: Perry Mason Series, Book 59

Author: Erle Stanley Gardner

Narrator: Alexander Cendese

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

It all began when pretty Gladys Doyle lost her way and was forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. The next morning she discovered her handsome host gone and a stranger in his place - dead as the proverbial herring.

There follows a courtroom scene in the best Perry Mason tradition, with a most reticent group of witnesses: a lady author whose realistic novel is a bit too true to life; Edgar Carlisle, equally talented at telling stories; Richard Gilman, an old hand at the disappearing act; and a smart, sharp operator never at a loss for clever plots.

Action and suspense are at their height and the adroit Mason at his legal best in this superb mystery.

Members Reviews:

Very bad editing. Very good story

Terrible editing in the Kindle edition. Many uncorrected typos and misspelings, lessening the enjoyment of a very good story

Good book, bad scanning

A good Perry Mason read with the usual twists and turns. I deducted a star because of the really poor scanning job. The Kindle version was filled with typos and gibberish characters that any spell checker would have caught. They appeared frequently enough to be annoying. Run your spell checker, people.

Good read... Start to finish

Quintessential Perry Mason. A clever who-dunnit that will keep you turning pages. The plot unfolds fast with an unconventional court room climax!

Five Stars

I like all Perry Mason book. Very thought out and interesting.

Irritating, unsatisfying Perry Mason mystery

If you are a new reader to the Perry Mason series do not make this your starting point. I haven't read a Perry Mason mystery in more years than I care to count but I am still familiar with them. Looking for a good Mason case to read I was intrigued by the description provided for the book here. Don't be fooled! This is one of the most annoying books I have suffered through in some time. The plot begins well but too soon the characters all become sources of painful irritation. The normally lively banter between Mason and Tragg seems draggy and lifeless; the mystery is incredibly contrived and has too many plot conveniences; an ever astute Perry makes a simply unbelievable sighting of a key witness. Then, near the end of the book, two of the characters exhibit exasperating behavior that Gardner seems to believe adds to the readers enjoyment. It doesn't - it aggravates all the more! And finally the payoff isn't at all acceptable. I may return here to buy another Perry Mason book sometime in the future, but I won't be holding my breath until then.

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Title: The Journey

Subtitle: Anna Kronberg Series, Book 3

Author: Annelie Wendeberg

Narrator: Anna Parker-Naples

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-25-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

With her darkest nightmare come true and an assassin following her every step, Anna Kronberg must hurry to find the true motivation behind Moriarty's plan to use disease as a weapon. Bit by bit, she and Sherlock Holmes unravel a spider web of crime, espionage, and bioterrorism that spreads across continents.

Members Reviews:

Interesting series with a twist on Sherlock Holmes

We have always been tantalized and fascinated with stories of women who crossdress as men in order to achieve their dreams, hide their pasts, or escape dangerous situations. Women who take the place of their men in war, like Melinda Blalock, are heroines. Women who masquerade as men in order to become members of orchestras or bands, like Billy Tipton, gave a clandestine furtiveness to the history of American Jazz. Women who contributed to modern medicine in the guise of men, like Margaret Ann Bulkley, who ended her military career as Inspector General of Military Hospitals, overcame the barriers presented by their sex to excel in their chosen fields. In fiction, the woman who must hide her true self in a world of frockcoats and trousers presents a wealth of dramatic possibilities. Glenn Close gave a tragically beautiful performance in Albert Nobbs, a film about a woman who works as a male waiter in a hotel, hoping to save enough money to open a small tobacco shop, who is given a glimpse of the happiness she could be experiencing in sharing her life with a likeminded female partner.

Annalie Wendeberg has created just such an intriguing character in her Sherlockian series, the Anna Kronberg thrillers. Anna Kronberg has taken on the disguise of a man in order to attend medical school, complete her training, and practice medicine. She remains undiscovered until she is called to perform an examination on the corpse of a cholera victim. Her secret is quickly discarded by the detective evaluating the case, the great Sherlock Holmes. So begins Wendebergâs continuing series about Dr. Kronberg, as she helps Holmes unravel the mystery of the cholera patient and a threat of biological warfare, becomes a prisioner of Holmesâ archenemy Moriarity, and has to flee for her life from Moriarityâs murderous henchmen.

Kronberg is a wonderful character, prickly, independent, analytical, intelligent, and often unreasonable, but grounded in altruism and a deep love for her father, who always encouraged her and never constrained her ambitions. Holmes is presented as a brilliant but flawed individual, damaged by the psychological torments of his childhood, and with a mildly autistic inability to respond with appropriate human reactions to emotional situations. Much like the Mary Russell books by Laurie King, the Kronberg stories show Holmes drawing emotionally closer to his distaff companion. The male masquerade aspect of the stories is handled deftly, with a great deal of insight into what care someone like Anna must take in maintaining the illusion of masculinity, and the stresses it induces. It would best serve the reader to begin with the first book in the series, as this third volume stands alone only with some difficulty, but it is a welcome addition to the chronology and whets the appetite for the next episode.

Lots of traveling and talking

I really liked this book as a conclusion to the previous 2 in the series. The story had lots of movement, traveling and talking.

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Title: The Cheltenham Square Murder

Author: John Bude

Narrator: Gordon Griffin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins

Language: English

Release date: 04-01-17

Publisher: Soundings

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 24 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

In the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its 10 houses. One summer's evening the square's rivalries and allegiances are disrupted by a sudden and unusual death - an arrow to the head, shot through an open window at no. 6. Unfortunately for the murderer, an invitation to visit had just been sent by the crime writer Aldous Barnet, staying with his sister at no. 8, to his friend Superintendent Meredith. Three days after his arrival, Meredith finds himself investigating the shocking murder. Six of the square's inhabitants are keen members of the Wellington Archery Club, but if Meredith and Long thought that the case was going to be easy to solve, they were wrong....

Members Reviews:

Very Entertaining Book

The story was really good and the narrator was brilliant. A great bit of escapism.

A tantalizing plot!

A masterful work of literature that made me cling to a discrepancy in the evidence for half the book to prove I had correctly deduced the murderer.

What a wonderful tale he spins

This is the fifth book I have listened to by this author and not one of them has been a disappointment, I really do like the narrator, he should get the equivalent of an oscar, or maybe he had, well read well written well done. Give me more

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Title: Wild Horses

Subtitle: The Eddie Malloy Series, Book 8

Author: Joe McNally

Narrator: Nicholas Camm

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-16-17

Publisher: 1 POINT 4 LTD

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

A steeplechase at Bangor races...after a mile, a horse suddenly goes wild and smashes through a fence leaving his jockey, Eddie Malloy, comatose. This is no freak accident. In the following weeks, more horses go wild during races. Fortunes are won and lost on them, and the only consistent clue is that Eddie Malloy rides in every race where the horses hit blind panic.

The racing authorities want Eddie grounded. The police want to use Eddie to nail an 'uncatchable' crime lord. Ben and Alice Searcey want Eddie's help and protection against a vicious ring of girl traffickers. And the sexy 'Gypsy Princess', Primarolo Romanic needs Eddie to help hold together her relationship with handsome two-timing trainer, Dil Grant.

Eddie has never faced so many challenges. In this long, intense and fast-moving story, can he keep everyone he cares for alive and unharmed? Or has his luck finally run out along with the wild horses?

Members Reviews:

A change of pace for Eddie and readers.

This was, to me, a most unusual Eddie Malloy book. One that shows, at least a first, an older and slightly more mellow Eddie, generally content with his unconventional new "family." The pacing seems quite different, with it starting off slowly and moving in a perhaps obvious manner towards denouement, but at about half-way through the book. Then "wham," everything turns on its ear and it seems the book gives the reader one of the wild rides for which it is named. I wasn't certain that I cared much for the book through the mid-point, but now see the reason for this pacing.

As mentioned, it is different from most Eddie Malloy books that start fast and keep up the fevered pace, with occasional increases and decreases until the climax. But in retrospect, I believe this change of pace is a good one, keeping the books from becoming too formulaic. It's a good read and well worth one's time.

A few words about the announcement of the next two books in the series, which are to be flat-out rewrites of two previous books, dropping the previous protagonist Frankie Houlihan in favor of Eddie Malloy. This is being done to sort out the timeline of Eddie, and the authors have certainly given clear warning to readers regarding the previous lack of continuity. The next book, "For Your Sins" (previously "Joseph's Mansions") did not have Eddie in it at all. It seemingly was a sales flop, but I found it an absolutely excellent read and it left me looking forward to more with Frankie. He was an excellent counterpart to Eddie, allowing the authors (one since retired) to write about similar topics from different points of view. This rewrite will be Eddie Malloy "sorted timeline" book 9.

Then I read "Bet Your Life" in which Frankie and Eddie were both protagonists. But I did not like what had become of Eddie, how his personality had changed, and that he was a victim during much of the book. The Frankie portions remained strong, though. In the end it was the only Eddie Malloy book I wish I had not read. It needed more Frankie and to have a character other than Eddie as the second lead. Instead it will be rewritten as Eddie Malloy "sorted timeline" book 10, dropping Frankie.

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Title: Divorce Can Be Deadly

Subtitle: Dr. Benjamin Bones Mysteries, Book 2

Author: Emma Jameson

Narrator: Matthew Lloyd Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-28-17

Publisher: Lyonnesse Books

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 89 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Classic Detective

Publisher's Summary:

"Two ghosts troubled Dr. Benjamin Bones. One he feared would never release him. Another he worried might slip away, however much he tightened his grip...."

So begins Divorce Can Be Deadly, the long-awaited second book in Emma Jameson's wartime cozy mystery series. Return to Birdswing, a tiny Cornish village, in the bitter winter of 1939 and revisit old friends as they embark on more amateur sleuthing. Irrepressible Lady Juliet is taking a correspondence course in private detection and is vexed by the return of her soon-to-be ex-husband. Meanwhile, not only has Ben failed to realize the depth of her feelings for him, but his obsession with Lucy, the Fenton House ghost, grows stronger.

When a bloodless, half-naked corpse is discovered in a great house in a nearby village, Ben and Juliet must again follow the clues to solve the case. Join them as they pry into the secret lives of villagers in seemingly picture-perfect Barking, including a vicar who hides from his secretary, a baron haunted by the Great War, and a butler who just might have done it.

Brimming with romance, historical details, and warm humor, Divorce Can Be Deadly will prove itself worth the wait!

Members Reviews:

Absolutely charming!

Any additional comments?

In a class of its own when it comes to cozy mysteries. Reminiscent of Agatha Christie. Fun characters, light & clever humor, appealing mysteries. The narration was excellent. Highly recommended!

Loved this!

I was so delighted by this series so far. I look forward to many more stories. Hope they keep coming.

Smashing! Hooked, utterly

Dr Bones and his Lady friend are a heavenly pair- also in the sense of being star-crossed. Even so, they've spoiled me for other literary pairings. Would like leave the next in series until its season comes around (Yuletide theme) but I doubt I will be able to wait that long!

Well Done.

I love the inter-woven stories. these characters are wonderful! looking forward to the next book series.

Humor, History, and Suspense!

Terrific work, Emma. I love your poignancy, too. Well-drawn characters one cares about in a timeless setting.