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  • Death at the Excelsior [Classic Tales Edition]

  • By: P.G. Wodehouse
  • Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
  • Length: 51 mins
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (11 ratings)

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Death at the Excelsior [Classic Tales Edition]

By: P.G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
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Publisher's summary

Inside a quiet boarding house on the waterfront, a man stares up to the ceiling with sightless eyes. The tight lipped landlady proclaims that it is murder. Can an upscale detective agency penetrate to the bottom of the mystery?

Public Domain (P)2010 B.J. Harrison
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Always worthwhile

Great narration. An interesting twist.
BJ Harrison has a brilliant range of voice. Good story.

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Are you having a laugh?

I think old Pelham Grenville was having a laugh. A slightly satirical detective story sending up “The Speckled Band” and other such Holmes tales. Amusing, but certainly not at the level of the Bertie Wooster stories...Still, it was fun.

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Novelty, but what a stinker

It's only fun to listen to this for the sake of picturing simple soul Bertie Wooster goggling at the ripping yarn. Everything else about it sort of sucks.
The narrator suits the story's tone well, though that is not really a compliment.
It is fun to know that P. G. Wodehouse wrote a mystery, and there is no way I was going to miss it. If you don't feel the same, avoid wasting your time and money.

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