Halfway House

By: Ellery Queen

Narrated by: Fred Sullivan

The victim had lived two lives, but a single knife thrust ended both of them. The trail of suspicion led into the guilt-edged world of the beautiful people - and climaxed in a vicious courtroom battle that ended with a shattering verdict. It seemed that for the first time Ellery had met his match - until the sleuth blended his usual impeccable logic with a most unusual fling.…

©1936 Ellery Queen (P)2013 Blackstone Audio

Someone “pinc-nez” me, I think I’m having a nightm’

I’ve complained about this before. When you read a book for yourself and come across something / a term, let’s say, which you don’t know, it is relatively common, amongst those who value knowledge and despise ignorance, to rectify the lapse and look the thing up.
Now, when you’re reading a book for an audience.... it is effectively REQUIRED that you do so. After all it’s your responsibility to pronounce the word or phrase with the utmost accuracy.

The blatant failure to do so... and lack of knowledge or thoroughness to catch aforementioned during final editing... can go very far into ruining a “performance” in entirety. In fact I could barely call such a charade a “performance” at all. It’s just some dude carelessly “reading” a book. NOT “performing” it, by any stretch of the imagination.

Brilliant!

Good performer! He only mispronounced a few words! Sgt VEE LEE, if you please! Mispronounced words make me crazy! However, reading a book with voices must be difficult, so forgivable! Love the Ellery Queen books! Thank you!

another great Ellery Queen book

once again, the Audio company that makes the Ellery Queen bucks has changed the narrator... However, this narrator does a very good job I'm differentiating between the characters, not as good as the first narrator in the series, but still pretty good and worth listening to

loved it

Kept met guessing until the end as always. Was ana amazing book. get it now

A little bit convoluted but gun never the ledd

Only the last chapter dragged because the authors dragged the murderer reveal .Other than that it was a nice listen.