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On a foggy night in Hampstead, London, a party has gathered in an artist's studio to weather the wartime blackout. A civil servant and a government scientist match wits in a game of chess while Bruce Manaton paints the portrait.
In the kitchen, Rosanne Manaton prepares tea for the charlady of Mr Folliner. When the murder of 'Old Mr. F' is discovered by his Canadian infantryman nephew, it's not long before Inspector Macdonald of Scotland Yard is called to the scene. But even at first glance the case looks far from black-and-white. Macdonald and the CID set to work separating the players from the pawns to shed light on this toppling of a lonely king in the dead of night.
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Fun story.
- De peter en 03-12-22
De: E. C.R. Lorac
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Fell Murder
- De: E.C.R. Lorac
- Narrado por: Kris Dyer
- Duración: 7 h y 1 m
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First published in 1944, Fell Murder sees E.C.R. Lorac at the height of her considerable powers as a purveyor of well-made and traditional detective fiction. The book presents a fascinating 'return of the prodigal' mystery set in the later stages of the Second World War, amidst the close-knit farmerfolk community of Lancashire's lovely Lune valley. The Garths had farmed their fertile acres for generations.
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Nice cozy mystery
- De CassyLynn en 10-19-20
De: E.C.R. Lorac
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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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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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Death of an Author
- De: E. C. R. Lorac
- Narrado por: Simon Mattacks
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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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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Modern classic mystery
- De AlmanacJEA en 06-11-23
De: E. C. R. Lorac
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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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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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some repetition but a good story
- De ltufromberkeley en 10-05-21
De: E.C.R. Lorac
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Impact of Evidence
- De: Carol Carnac
- Narrado por: Mark Meadows
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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In the Welsh borders, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, cut off from telephone access, a tragedy has occurred. Old Dr Robinson known to be 'a menace' on the roads has met his end in a car crash, his big saloon thrown from the track down the steep hillside. But when the police arrive there is more to the tragedy than meets the eye: why was there a second body - an outsider to these parts - in the back of the vehicle?
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An atmospheric mystery
- De CassyLynn en 03-03-24
De: Carol Carnac
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It Walks by Night
- De: John Dickson Carr
- Narrado por: John Telfer
- Duración: 8 h y 39 m
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In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a Parisian salon, Detective Bencolin has summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar case. A would-be murderer, imprisoned for his attempt to kill his wife, has escaped and is known to have visited a plastic surgeon. His whereabouts remain a mystery, though with his former wife poised to marry another, Bencolin predicts his return. Sure enough, the detective's worst suspicions are realised when the beheaded body of the new suitor is discovered in a locked room of the salon, with no apparent exit.
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Good store but dated
- De Phillip en 04-20-24
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The Wintringham Mystery
- Cicely Disappears
- De: Anthony Berkeley, Tony Medawar
- Narrado por: Mike Grady
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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Stephen Munro, a demobbed army officer, reconciles himself to taking a job as a footman to make ends meet. Employed at Wintringham Hall, the delightful but decaying Sussex country residence of the elderly Lady Susan Carey, his first task entails welcoming her eccentric guests to a weekend house-party, at which her bombastic nephew—who recognises Stephen from his former life—decides that an after-dinner séance would be more entertaining than bridge. Then Cicely disappears!
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Charming Light-hearted mystery
- De Carolyn en 10-04-21
De: Anthony Berkeley, y otros
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He Who Whispers
- De: John Dickson Carr
- Narrado por: Kris Dyer
- Duración: 9 h y 54 m
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When Miles Hammond is invited to a meeting of the Murder Club in London, he is met instead with just two other guests and is treated to a strange tale of an impossible crime in France years before; the murder of a man on a tower with only one staircase, under watch at the time at which the murder took place. With theories of levitating vampires abounding, the story comes home to Miles when he realises that the librarian he has just hired for his home is none other than Fay Seton, a woman at the heart of this bizarre and unsolved past murder.
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Long Long Ago when writers were golden
- De Kathie Pritchard en 11-19-23
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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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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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Another interesting Lorac
- De Nick B. en 05-17-24
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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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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very very short story don't waste a credit
- De ltufromberkeley en 10-19-21
De: E.C.R. Lorac
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Crossed Skis
- De: Carol Carnac
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 7 h y 24 m
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In Bloomsbury, London, Inspector Brook of Scotland Yard looks down at a dismal scene. The victim of a ruthless murder lies burnt beyond recognition, his possessions and papers destroyed by fire. But there is one strange, yet promising, lead - a lead which suggests the involvement of a skier. Meanwhile, piercing sunshine beams down on the sparkling snow of the Austrian Alps, where a merry group of holidaymakers are heading towards Lech am Arlberg.
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Cozy mystery
- De CassyLynn en 10-17-21
De: Carol Carnac
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-25-21
As good as the other Loracs!
Opens with a scene that could have been written for the theater. Possibly some readers found this a bit odd but I felt that it worked quite well. McDonald was his usual highland self and I could not find much fault with his performance either. The plot was no more unrealistic than most detective plots from this era. The wartime mood with blackouts and so on seemed right to me. Al very good book in my opinion and the reading quite enjoyable.
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- Rosita
- 04-30-24
Classic ECR Lorac
I very much enjoyed this story. As always, McDonald does not disappoint. The characters are well developed and I loved the narration. I’m running out of Audible versions of Lorac novels 😳.
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- ltufromberkeley
- 11-13-21
rousing good tale in wartime England
In the midst of WWII England, blackouts, fog, murder, theft and a fist full of unbreakable alibis. Another great Lorac story beautifully performed by Thorpe. Highly recommended.
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- Harpy
- 09-30-23
Classic mystery
A classic English mystery, set in a historically interesting time in the middle of WW2. Appreciated that the reader gave the Canadian character an actual Canadian accent
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- 05-06-21
Great old classic mystery by one of the greats
Happy to get to hear one of the hard to get classic mysteries and made even more enjoyable by a gifted reader
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- Remembrance of Things Pabst
- 11-06-21
A Crime Against Writing
Narrator Davis Thorpe: A+
Out of every 10 British Library Crime Classics, every 1.89 to 2.03 is a decent mystery. The rest are the literary equivalent of a Urinary Tract Infection. Checkmate to Murder is considerably worse than a UTI, something more akin to a 6 month losing battle with acute feline pancreatitis.
After 30 hours of uselessly mucking about, in the penultimate chapter, the detective solves the murder by 1) sneaking into a room, and 2) overhearing the criminals confess to the crime.
E.C.R. Lorac writing a mystery novel is like... Imagine a Tango competition (Tango here, is a metaphor for the Mystery as such, the genre of Mystery writing) with the world's finest tango-ists (actual mystery writers). An overconfident moron with no sense of shame (here played by our friend E.C.R) enters the competition with forged bona fides (played by the publisher) and prances about on stage with a rose between her teeth, a funny hat, throws in some karate kicks, a pirouette or two, maybe pauses in the middle to do a crossword, flosses a bit, orders a drink, and as the music stops, attempts a tango close by doing the splits and ripping her pants.
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- peter
- 07-14-21
LESS THAN MORE
I enjoyed two other novels by this author, especially Murder By Matchlight but this one was irritating and ultimately not entertaining at all. I was glad to end it. The plot is too implausibly complicated and the characters uniquely unlikeable. The Inspector is really no more than a subtitle. Not recommended.
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