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The Far Cry

By: Fredric Brown
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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An original and terrifying mystery by noir writer Fredric Brown.

Once upon a time, a girl named Jenny Ames was murdered in a lonely house. No one knew where she had come from, or why she had died, or who killed her. Years later, a man moved into the same house - and discovered that nothing is more seductive than an unsolved murder.

The Far Cry is another top Fredric Brown job - a most adroit, inventive, and utterly horrifying mystery.

©1951 Fredric Brown. © renewed 1979 by Elizabeth C. Brown (P)2014 Blackstone Audio, Inc. and Skyboat Media, Inc.
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Classic 1950's Noir

This is a crime novel from the 1950's about a man who heads to a cabin in the Southwest to recover from a breakdown and becomes obsessed with an old murder case. It was republished in the 1980's as part of the excellent Black Lizard collection so you know it's a good one.

Stefan Rudnicki is an excellent narrator for this sort of book.

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I’ve read a couple of Brown’s SF novels & a couple of his noir/mystery & this is one of the best of his. Different than I expected with perhaps a very modern exploration of obsession I found well done & some red herrings affecting several elements of the novel. Basically a “cold case” type, but much more than that. Well written.

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