Great Classic Mysteries
- Author various authors
- Narrator various narrators
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 12 October 2010
- Run Time 8 hours and 11 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Anthologies: general, Biography and non-fiction prose, Classic fiction, Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Short stories.
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What to expect
Enjoy the great detectives of the Golden Age of classic mysteries in this unique collection of audio whodunits. Newly recorded for this original anthology, the crimes, criminals, and sleuths depicted here set the standard for decades to come, and remain as entertaining today as they were when first published. This collection includes the following stories:
- "The Purloined Letter" by Edgar Allan Poe
- "Hunted Down" by Charles Dickens
- "Silver Blaze" by Arthur Conan Doyle
- "Cheating the Gallows" by Israel Zangwill
- "My First Experience with the Great Logician" by Jacques Futrelle
- "The Queen's Necklace" by Maurice Leblanc
- "The York Mystery" by Baroness Orczy
- "The Detective Detector" by O. Henry
- "The Blue Cross" by G. K. Chesterton
- "The Second Bullet" by Anna Katherine Green
- "Naboth's Vineyard" by Melville Davisson Post
- "The Gioconda Smile" by Aldous Huxley
Critics Review
“The selections are excellently performed by such audio stars as Simon Prebble and Simon Vance…The collection is a good primer on the genre and will be great fun for those who wish to revisit some well-worn tales.”
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