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Great Classic Crime Stories

By: Charles Dickens,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,Thomas Hardy,Arnold Bennett,A. J. Alan,G. K. Chesterton
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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Publisher's summary

A grisly collection of despicable crimes told by some of the world's best writers.

  • 1. "Charles", by A. J. Alan
  • 2. "The Magic Casket", by R. Austin Freeman
  • 3. The Game Played in the Dark by Ernest Bramah
  • 4. "The Hammer of God", by G. K. Chesterton
  • 5. "His Brother’s Keeper", by W. W. Jacobs
  • 6. "The Murder of the Mandarin", by Arnold Bennett
  • 7. "The Murder of the Countess Görlitz", by S. Baring-Gould
  • 8. "The Shadow of the Shark", by G. K. Chesterton
  • 9. "The Burglary", by Arnold Bennett
  • 10. "The Perfect Murder", by Stacy Aumonier
  • 11. "Blackmail", by John Galsworthy
  • 12. "The Honest Thief", by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • 13. "To Be Taken in Water", by George Walter Thornbury
  • 14. "The Man Who Stole a Meeting House", by John Townsend Trowbridge
  • 15. "The Great Bank Forgery", by Sir Basil Thomson
  • 16. "Diamond Cut Diamond", by F. Britten Austin
  • 17. "My Adventure at Chislehurst", by A. J. Alan
  • 18. "The Marionettes", by O. Henry
  • 19. "The Inn of the Two Witches", by Joseph Conrad
  • 20. "The Man with the Watches", by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • 21. "The Saloon Passenger", by E. W. Hornung
  • 22. "The Severed Hand", by Wilhelm Hauff
  • 23. "Moon’s Gibbet", by Egerton Castle
  • 24. "A Lucky Number", by S. B. Hale
  • 25. "The Criminal from Lost Honour", by Friedrich Schiller
  • 26. "The Tête Noire", by Charles Allston Collins
  • 27. "The Downfall of Mulligans", by Banjo Patterson
  • 28. "Hunted Down", by Charles Dickens
  • 29. "Old Fags", by Stacy Aumonier
  • 30. "My Favorite Murder", by Ambrose Bierce
  • 31. "The Three Strangers", by Thomas Hardy
  • 32. "A Bottomless Grave", by Ambrose Bierce
Public Domain (P)2014 Red Door Audiobooks

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What would have made Great Classic Crime Stories better?

A narrator with more experience weaving a storyline.

What was most disappointing about the authors’s story?

I do not know --- I couldn't get past the narrator's inability to craft comprehensible sentences.

How did the narrator detract from the book?

I'm beating a dead horse here. Wrong narrator for the content.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Great Classic Crime Stories?

I couldn't get that far.

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I'm kicking myself for not listening to the preview. I promise this will never happen again.

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Narrator too distracting

I tried a couple hours worth of this book but I just couldn't get pass the narrator's accent and the way she draws out her words. stories are potentially good but I just could not focus.

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