The Crooked Cross by Charles J. Dutton audiobook.

Genre: mystery

When summer heat makes New York City feel unbearable, John Bartley plans an easy escape: a visit to his friend Carter in a quiet lakeside village. Instead, Bartley sends his friend Pelt ahead to settle in, never guessing that a simple holiday will turn into a case that reaches from a country house dining room to the attention of Scotland Yard. Professor Henry Warren, a brilliant scientist newly returned from China, has invited a small circle to dinner. The dinner never happens. Warren is found dead inside his own locked home, and on his forehead is a chilling sign: a crooked cross marked like a warning.As suspicion spreads through the village, Pelt and Carter are pulled into a tightening web of motives, secrets, and strange hints pointing toward Warren's travels and the people around him, including a wary secretary and an enigmatic foreign presence that local gossip is quick to condemn. With Inspector Ranville lending sharp professional insight, the investigation becomes a contest of observation and nerve: which details are clues, which are misdirection, and what does the sinister symbol truly mean? In this brisk classic whodunit, reason must cut through fear before the next move is made.

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Chapters (Approximate)

(00:00:00) Chapter 01

(00:18:49) Chapter 02

(00:31:38) Chapter 03

(00:48:12) Chapter 04

(01:07:12) Chapter 05

(01:26:14) Chapter 06

(01:49:24) Chapter 07

(02:08:53) Chapter 08

(02:28:49) Chapter 09

(02:45:11) Chapter 10

(03:06:48) Chapter 11

(03:24:32) Chapter 12

(03:47:55) Chapter 13

(04:04:04) Chapter 14

(04:23:34) Chapter 15

(04:47:04) Chapter 16

(05:16:13) Chapter 17

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