Author: Edgar Wallace, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton
Narrator: Bart Wolffe
Unabridged: 4 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Saland Publishing
Published: 05/01/2014
Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective
Edgar Wallace (1875–1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist, and playwright who wrote 175 novels, twenty-four plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over 160 films have been made of his novels, which is more than any other author. He is most famous today as the cocreator of King Kong, writing the early screenplay and story for the movie.
This wonderful collection of short stories are good-old-fashioned “The Butler did it!” type crimes. Here is Sherlock, Morse, Father Brown, Bulldog Drummond, and Morris Claw. It couldn’t get better. The vocabulary is marvellous too. After reading this, I’m left with the feeling that much of the Englis......more
A fun assortment of old time detective short stories that I got out of the library in audiobook to keep me occupied while packing. It was definitely diverting but some of these would have been better to have read in a book.......more
I listed to this audio book. Liked all but one and only because i don't think that story was suitable for narrating. Because of no dialogue it was hard to concentrate on the story.......more
