Author: Edgar Allan Poe, G. K. Chesterton, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator: Bart Wolffe
Unabridged: 5 hr
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Saland Publishing
Published: 11/01/2014
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American poet, short story writer, editor, and literary critic who is credited with inventing the detective fiction genre and with contributing to the emerging science fiction genre. He began his literary career with the anonymous publication of a collection of his poems entitled Tamerlane and Other Poems. He then turned to writing prose and spent the next several years working for literary journals and periodicals, becoming well known for his particular style of literary criticism. He served for a time on the staff of the New York Mirror, in which his poem "The Raven" was published. Poe's other well-known works include his stories "The Purloined Letter," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Mystery of Marie Roget."
Audiobook: 05hr 05m A nice collection with a variety of flavours, like a pre-dinner charcuterie board of mysteries that will help you decide on the main course. I have heard / read the first few stories before (I suspect in a similar anthology of the genre) but they are worth re-reading and I wasn't......more
As usual with a short story collection, some were better than others, but overall a very enjoyable listen. The only negative for me was that, being an audiobook, I had no idea how many stories there were, or which was the last. Consequently, the ending felt very abrupt.......more