The Miser's Dream

The Eli Marks Mysteries, Book 3

By: John Gaspard

Narrated by: Jim Cunningham

A casual glance out his apartment window turns magician Eli Marks' life upside down. After spotting a dead body in the projection booth of the movie theater next door, Eli is pulled into the hunt for the killer. As he attempts to puzzle out a solution to this classic locked room mystery, he must deal with a crisis of a more personal nature: the appearance of a rival magician who threatens not only Eli's faith in himself as a performer, but his relationship with his girlfriend.

But the killer won't wait and starts taking homicidal steps to bring Eli's investigation to a quick and decisive end. Things get even worse when his magician rival offers his own plausible solution to the mystery. With all the oddball suspects gathered together, Eli must unveil the secrets to this movie-geek whodunit or find himself at the wrong end of the trick.

©2018 John Gaspard (P)2018 Spoken Realms

Made for Movie Lovers Mystery

Definitely made for Movie Lovers with all of the movie references along with a Locked Door Mystery Death, coupled with a Mysterious Missing Infamous Film, and a constant reference to movies and memorabilia.

While being a Movie Afficianado is not a requirement to become enthralled by this tale, being a movie fan will certainly serve you well in being able to keep up with the constant movie, films, and Hollywood references.

A nice leather seats diner, London Foggy Streets, old muscle car, private gumshoe, type of tale, told by a passing magician, about an on-going murder mystery.

I recommend this meandering, enjoyable Murder, Mystery, Magic, and Movies tale to Movie Fans and the General Public alike, Enjoy!

Enjoyable etory, good narrator, voice grating

Enjoyable story, good narrator, voice grating
This series is enjoyable and characters are engaging, very intriguing insight into performance magic. Sadly, the narrator, although having a tolerable speaking voice for the main character, but does terrible versions of voices for most other characters, esp uses horrible voice fry for all “older” character voices. Very unpleasant to listen to.

Love this series

I've listened to the first two books in this series and this third installment is just as good. I love the character, Eli Marks. He's an everyman who just happens to be a magician. I absolutely love how the author intersperses magic and magicians into the mystery. I totally missed the whodunnit but that's the hallmark of a good mystery.

The narrator has a great voice and cadence that is a perfect fit for this character. All in all, a very good listen.

Entertaining

Eli Marks does it again. I love this series. Eli is an entertaining and engaging character. I love the way he interacts with his uncle and the other characters. I also enjoy watching him puzzle through and eventually sole mysteries. I can't wait for the next book in this series.

Don't usually like mysteries...

but this one held my interest throughout. The intonation reminded me of beloved Hal Holbrook.