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Mark Meadows
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Carol Carnac
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When a civil servant at the newly formed Ministry of Fine Arts is found crushed beneath a monstrous marble bust after dark, it appears to be the third instance in a string of fatal accidents at the department.
Already disturbed by rumours of forgeries and irregularities in the Ministry’s dealings, Minister Humphry David is soon faced with the possibility that among his colleagues is a murderer – though how the bust could have been made an instrument of death is a masterstroke of criminal devilment.
Taking charge of the case, Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard enters a caustic world of fine art and civil service grievances to unveil a killer hiding in plain sight.
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 106
Chief Inspector Macdonald has been invited to a treasure hunt party at the house of the Graham Coombe, the celebrated publisher of Murder by Mesmerism. The clues of the hunt have been devised by Coombe's thriller-writer friends, disguised on the night under literary pseudonyms. The fun comes to an abrupt end, however, when 'Samuel Pepys' is found murdered in the telephone room in bizarre circumstances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fun story.
- De peter en 03-12-22
De: E. C.R. Lorac
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Fear Stalks the Village
- De: Ethel Lina White
- Narrado por: Oona Beeson
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 17
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 17
A novelist ambles down the lanes of a cosy country village, replete with Tudor houses and quaint cottages. In her writer's mind she pictures the sordid truth beyond the veneer, a seemingly laughable proposition - until the coming of the letters. Anonymous letters from a poisoned pen, sowing discord and defaming everybody from the Rector to the 'queen of the village' Miss Decima Asprey. Naturally, where there is venom in the air and dark secrets are threatening to come to light, the shadow of death is not far behind.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting Classic
- De wisconsinclark en 08-21-24
De: Ethel Lina White
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Two-Way Murder
- De: E.C.R. Lorac
- Narrado por: Kris Dyer
- Duración: 8 h y 18 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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It is a dark and misty night, and bachelors Nicholas and Ian are driving to the ball at Fordings, a beautiful concert hall in the countryside. There waits the charming Dilys Maine, and a party buzzing with rumours of one Rosemary Reeve who disappeared on the eve of this event the previous year. With thoughts of this mysterious case ringing in their ears, Dilys and Nicholas strike a stranger on the drive back home, launching a new investigation and unwittingly reviving the search for what really became of Rosemary Reeve.
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5 out of 5 stars
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some repetition but a good story
- De ltufromberkeley en 10-05-21
De: E.C.R. Lorac
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I Can Find My Way Out
- De: Ngaio Marsh
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 1 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 11
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
When a famous theatre actor is found dead in his changing room, it is initially labelled a suicide. But Inspector Alleyn believes there is more to it, and soon the cast of the production find themselves under suspicion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story, well performed
- De Elizabeth Hopkins en 01-16-24
De: Ngaio Marsh
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Death of an Author
- De: E. C. R. Lorac
- Narrado por: Simon Mattacks
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 69
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Vivian Lestrange - celebrated author of the popular mystery novel The Charterhouse Case and total recluse - has apparently dropped off the face of the Earth. Reported missing by his secretary Eleanor, whom Inspector Bond suspects to be the author herself looking for publicity, it appears that crime is afoot when Lestrange's housekeeper is also found to have disappeared. Bond and Warner of Scotland Yard set to work to investigate a murder with no body and a potentially fictional victim.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Modern classic mystery
- De AlmanacJEA en 06-11-23
De: E. C. R. Lorac
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A Bit of Wire-Pulling
- De: E.C.R. Lorac
- Narrado por: Gordon Griffin
- Duración: 17 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 25
A short story from British Library Crime Classic The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories. 'It’s a very rare thing for a murder to be committed actually in the presence of a police officer.' Or so it was thought.... After the police fail to trace the writer behind a series of threatening letters to wealthy industrialist Sir Charles Leighton, he demands constant police protection. And thus it is up to Inspector Lang to accompany the man to a bridge party on New Year’s Eve - and track down his killer....
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4 out of 5 stars
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very very short story don't waste a credit
- De ltufromberkeley en 10-19-21
De: E.C.R. Lorac
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Death by Carpet
- Slater and Norman Mysteries, Book 1
- De: P.F. Ford
- Narrado por: Andy Cresswell
- Duración: 9 h y 39 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 8
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 8
Disgraced Detective Dave Slater is stuck on gardening leave, down in the quiet Hampshire town of Tinton, with just one last chance to redeem himself. He must search for mousy young journalist Ruth Thornhill. Months ago, she vanished from her home, her London job, her life. But the Met don't want to know. Now Slater's boss slips him the file, asking him to investigate discreetly, with the help of an unlikely new assistant. Bedraggled fifty-something Detective Norman Norman.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Entertaining mystery
- De wisconsinclark en 01-28-25
De: P.F. Ford
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Before the Fact
- De: Francis Iles
- Narrado por: Deryn Edwards
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 5
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 5
Some women give birth to murderers, some go to bed with them, and some marry them. Lina Aysgarth had lived with her husband for nearly eight years before she realized that she was married to a murderer.
De: Francis Iles
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Metropolitan Mysteries
- A Casebook of London's Detectives
- De: Martin Edwards
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
The streets of London have been home to many great detectives since the days of Sherlock Holmes and Watson, with some of the best authors in the genre taking to the short story form to pit their sleuths against crimes ranging from murders on the Tube to heists from the capital's finest jewellers. Featuring a roster of Scotland Yard's meticulous best, a cohort of daring doctors and a cadre of characterful private investigators, this new selection by Martin Edwards includes 18 vintage mystery stories which showcase the city's most compelling classic cases.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fun collection
- De Blithe Alden en 01-13-25
De: Martin Edwards
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The Cornish Coast Murder
- De: John Bude
- Narrado por: Ben Allen
- Duración: 8 h y 43 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 224
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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The reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen, spends his evenings reading detective stories by the fireside - but heaven forbid that the shadow of any real crime should ever fall across his seaside parish. But the vicar's peace is shattered one stormy night when Julius Tregarthan, an ill-tempered magistrate, is found at his house in Boscawen with a bullet through his head. The local police inspector is baffled by the lack of clues.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Good Old Fashioned Who Done It
- De C. Rosser en 05-12-16
De: John Bude
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The Piccadilly Murder
- De: Anthony Berkeley
- Narrado por: Mark Bowen
- Duración: 8 h y 19 m
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The Piccadilly Murder is a 1929 mystery detective novel by the British writer Anthony Berkeley. Ambrose Chitterwick is a witness to the death of a lady in the lounge at the Piccadilly Palace Hotel, shortly after her companion dropped something into her coffee. Chief Inspector Moresby is convinced she was murdered by him her nephew and sole heir, Major Sinclair, using prussic acid. He arrests Sinclair and plans to use Chitterwick as starwitness for the prosecution. However, nagging doubts in Chitterwick's mind lead him to turn amateur detective and find the real truth.
De: Anthony Berkeley
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A Man and His Mother-in-Law
- De: Roy Vickers
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 1 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 6
After Arthur Penfold’s wife reveals she is leaving him to care for her ailing aunt, he sets upon a path of murder and deceit to avoid the social embarrassment of a second marital breakdown. But the purchase of a poetry book triggers a sequence of events that begins to unravel both Arthur and a seemingly open-and-shut murder case.
De: Roy Vickers
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Murder as a Fine Art
- De: David Morrell
- Narrado por: Matthew Wolf
- Duración: 12 h y 40 m
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 797
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 801
Thomas De Quincey, infamous for his memoir "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater", is the major suspect in a series of ferocious mass murders identical to ones that terrorized London 43 years earlier. The blueprint for the killings seems to be De Quincey's essay "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts". Desperate to clear his name but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey is aided by his devoted daughter, Emily, and a pair of determined Scotland Yard detectives.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Historical Fact + Fiction = Gothic Mystery
- De Amy en 07-16-13
De: David Morrell
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The Wheel Spins
- De: Ethel Lina White
- Narrado por: Candida Gubbins
- Duración: 7 h y 13 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 9
Travelling home from a European holiday, Iris Carr ends up alone at the station after a quarrel with her friends. Struck by a mysterious assailant and waking up just in time to board the train which will take her on her journey to London, things seem to be looking up after a chance meeting with the affable Miss Froy. But when Iris passes out and reawakens, Miss Froy is nowhere to be found. The other passengers deny any knowledge of her existence and as the train speeds across Europe, Iris spirals deeper and deeper into a strange conspiracy.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Engaging characters and a train-journey mystery!
- De Sallyk575 en 01-11-25
De: Ethel Lina White
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The Theft of the Iron Dogs
- De: E. C. R. Lorac
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 8 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
While hot on the heels of serial coupon-racketeer Gordon Ginner, Chief Inspector MacDonald of Scotland Yard receives word of an intriguing incident up in Lancashire – the summer cottage of local farmer Giles Hoggett has been broken into, with an assortment of seemingly random items missing which include a complete reel of salmon line, a large sack, and two iron dogs from his fireplace. What first appears as a simple break-in quickly spirals into a mystery of contested land grabs for fishing between farmers, made all the more enticing to MacDonald when a body is then found in the river.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Well written but Unexciting
- De Geoffrey en 10-23-24
De: E. C. R. Lorac
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- CassyLynn
- 04-07-25
I’m a fan of ECR Lorac
I am a fan of ECR Lorac aka Carol Carnac. Julian Rivers is not your MacDonald, however I do like them both. This one was a good read and I thoroughly enjoyed Mark Meadows as narrator.
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- Helen L.
- 03-04-25
Fascinating at many levels!
I liked the whole setting and its premise. I liked the author’s attempt to imagine the clash between the bureaucratic and the avant garde of any era. Oddly, she seems to grant that traditional art is something the civil servant might comprehend or manage while the modern is not. One must remember that this was written just after WWII. Our notions of what art is and its role in society have expanded vastly…at least until recent months (2025). It is timely to read a book that questions whether a bureaucracy can manage, showcase, or process information if that bureaucracy is unaware of the significance or meaning of that information? Carnac was herself an artist. We know nothing of her work, though. She discusses modernism very simplistically, her plot is rather contrived, depending greatly on amazing intuition, and the time frame is totally improbable, but for reasons apart from all of that, it’s a great book.
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- wisconsinclark
- 02-04-25
If you like Carol Carnac you will enjoy this book
I very much enjoy Carol Carnac but this story was not as entertaining as others. Mark Meadows saved the book for me. I liked the back and forth banter regarding modern art vs traditional art, seems like we have the same discussions today. The problem was the characters lacked dimension, I don't recommend this if you are not interested in classic mystery, if you are it is worth a credit.
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