Great Detective Stories
The Purloined Letter, The Crooked Man, The Man in the Passage

This is a collection of (only) three stories by old-school thriller writers, namely Edgar Allen Poe, Sit Arthur Conan Doyle and G.K. Chesterton. I'll rate the stories individually. 1). "The Purloined Letter" by Poe (1844) - A letter containing sensitive information is swiped by someone willing to use......more

This was an audio book, only short at just two CD's. It was 3 stories - The purloined letter by Edgar Allan Poe, The crooked man - a Sherlock Holmes mystery - by Arthur Conan Doyle and The man in the passage by G.K. Chesterton. A very mixed bag, and not helped by the fact that the narrator was David......more

The endings were abrupt and I know I've read better stories.......more