Great Classic Crime Stories Audiobook By Charles Dickens, O. Henry, Ambrose Bierce, Thomas Hardy, Arnold Bennett, A. J. Alan, G. K. Chesterton cover art

Great Classic Crime Stories

Tales of Murder, Robbery, Extortion, Blackmail, Forgery, and Worse

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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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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
Classics Fiction Traditional Detectives Mystery Thief Detective
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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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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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