The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown, and O..., Peter Lovesey
The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown, and O..., Peter Lovesey
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The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown, and Other Stories

Author: Peter Lovesey

Narrator: Simon Vance, Kate Reading, Marisa Calin, Ralph Lister, Antony Ferguson, Henrietta Meire, Tim Bruce, various narrators

Unabridged: 9 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/29/2019


Synopsis

A collection of eighteen crime stories with a diverse range of characters and scenarios, from guilt-ridden fraudsters to lovesick murderers.

About Peter Lovesey

Peter Lovesey (1936–2025) wrote more than thirty highly praised mystery novels, including the Peter Diamond mysteries, the Sergeant Cribb historical mysteries, and the Bertie Prince of Wales novels. His book have won the British Crime Writers’ Association Silver and Gold Dagger awards, the Cartier Diamond Dagger, the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere, the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement, and the Strand Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award. In the United States, his books won an Anthony Award, a Macavity Award, and the Ellery Queen Readers Award, among others. He was named a Grand Master of the Swedish Academy of Detection and a Mystery Writers of America Grand Master.

About Simon Vance

Read by Simon Vance, Kate Reading, Marisa Calin, Ralph Lister, Antony Ferguson, Henrietta Meire, and Tim Bruce

About Kate Reading

Kate Reading, named an AudioFile Golden Voice, has recorded hundreds of audiobooks across many genres, over a thirty–year plus career and won the prestigious Audie Award for Best Narration. Among other awards, she has been recognized as an AudioFile Magazine Voice of the Century, Narrator of the Year, Best Voice in Science Fiction and Fantasy, and winner of an Publisher’s Weekly’s Listen-Up Award. She records at her home studio, Madison Productions, Inc., in Maryland.

About Marisa Calin

Marisa Calin is an actress, novelist, and multiple Earphones Award–winning narrator born in England and educated in New York at the American Academy of the Dramatic Arts. An artist with a flair for everything literary, she has written a young adult novel, You & Me, which received a starred review from Kirkus Reviews.

About Ralph Lister

Ralph Lister is an actor, voice actor, and AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. He spent fifteen years in London theater before moving to the United States to focus on film and television. He has held numerous roles in Shakespeare and modern dramas, as well as starring roles in independent films. His voice and character work can be heard in Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearland 13 Going On 30. He lives in Los Angeles.

About Antony Ferguson

Antony Ferguson, Earphones Award–winning narrator, was born in London. He has performed successfully on both sides of the Atlantic and has played many leading roles in theater, film, and television.

About Henrietta Meire

Henrietta Meire is a full-time voice-over artist and actress. In addition to narrating audiobooks, she has voiced numerous commercial and charity campaigns, as well as video game and animation characters. As an actress, she has appeared on stage, on television, and in a number of popular films.

About Tim Bruce

Tim Bruce has a warm, friendly, characterful voice and works extensively in voice-over, cartoons, and audiobooks. A regular on the BBC, Tim was the voice of Channel 996 for over three years. A long list of audiobook recordings includes the award-winning Blade series, Mark Billingham’s DI Tom Thorne series, Doctor Who, the Oxford Book of War Poetry, and the poetry of William Blake. Tim has also created a whole host of cartoon character voices for CBBC, Nickelodeon, Disney, and Cartoon Network.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Fran

Can a book by Peter Lovesey be anything but enjoyable?......more

Goodreads review by Riju

These eighteen stories truly showcase the genius that is Peter Lovesey. All of them were tense, crisp, jarring, and occasionally highly enjoyable reads. My favourites were~ 1. The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown; 2. Being of Sound Mind; 3. The Haunted Crescent; 4. A Case of Butterflies; 5. The Lady in the Trun......more

Goodreads review by Valerie

Traditional Christmas short stories I loved these. They transported me back to my adolescence, when I used to read short stories around the holidays, ghostly ones, thrillers. Lovesy is a master of this ilk. Any of them could have been used for an Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode. I started listening to......more


Quotes

“Full of sly humor and teasing misdirections, rich in chilling insights into human nature and characters that leap off the page, these stories are bon-bons to be lingered over.” James Melville, Hampstead & Highgate Express