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The Council of Justice
- The Four Just Men, Volume 2
- Narrated by: Bill Homewood
- Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
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In his Four Just Men series, Edgar Wallace comes up with something different: the ‘villains’ are not necessarily bad people, and the pursuers of justice, the Four Just Men, as they call themselves, are acting outside the law. They argue that their actions are for the public good, and dispassionately eke the ultimate revenge — death — on their victims. In their turn, the Four Just Men are pursued by the police, but somehow remain our heroes.
The Four Just Men, in this second of Wallace’s ingenious series of thrillers, pit themselves against The Red Hundred, an organisation dedicated to international anarchy, led by the charismatic and beautiful assassin, the Woman of Gratz. As always, the avengers’ methods are meticulously planned and ruthlessly executed.
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The Man in Lower Ten (Tantor Edition)
- By: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Narrated by: Rebecca Burns
- Length: 6 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Rinehart's The Man in Lower Ten, the first American detective novel to make the best seller list, follows the investigation of the murder of a man in a sleeping car on a train. In this fast-paced thriller, the investigating detective builds up a network of clues that absolutely incriminate three entirely different people---only one of whom can be guilty.
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Love the Author, Not my Favorite
- By Deana David on 06-04-24
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The Last Sherlock Holmes Story
- By: Michael Dibdin
- Narrated by: Robert Glenister
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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In the late seventies an extraordinary document came to light which for fifty years had been held on deposit by the bankers of the deceased John Herbert Watson MD - better known to devotees of Conan Doyle as Dr Watson. A continuous narrative in the doctor’s own hand, the story opens in the East End of London in 1888. Three women have been savagely murdered by Jack the Ripper.
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Keeps you guessing, even after its finished!
- By Benja on 03-28-13
By: Michael Dibdin
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The Complete Stories of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1
- By: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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First appearing in print in 1890, the character of Sherlock Holmes has now become synonymous worldwide with the concept of a super sleuth. His creator, Conan Doyle, imbued his detective hero with intellectual power, acute observational abilities, a penchant for deductive reasoning and a highly educated use of forensic skills. Indeed, Doyle created the first fictional private detective who used what we now recognize as modern scientific investigative techniques.
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mouth watering
- By David on 03-30-10
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The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu
- By: Sax Rohmer
- Narrated by: Edward E. French
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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The year is 1920. Dr. John Petrie, a physician and our narrator, meets his friend Denis Nayland Smith, who served as British police commissioner in Asia. Smith seems to know all things Asia and has the innate ability to get all the support he needs from British government officials. Smith stands for everything good, proper, and most importantly, British. Petrie is, of course, knowledgeable in medicine, forensics, and chemistry and an ace with a pistol - for good measure. Together they must thwart Dr. Fu-Manchu’s diabolical plan to restore China to its former glory.
By: Sax Rohmer
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
- By: Baroness Orczy
- Narrated by: Stephen Crossly
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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The French Revolution is at the height of its fury. Daily, hundreds of aristocratic heads fall from the guillotine. Emotions run high, and anyone suspected of sympathy toward the nobility is in mortal danger. Only one man is daring enough to lead a small band against popular opinion - the Scarlet Pimpernel. Using masterful disguises and clever strategies, the Scarlet Pimpernel smuggles noblemen and women from France to safety in England. His success is a thorn in the side of the Revolution. As he vanishes from each escapade, he leaves no trace behind except an image of the colorful flower that is his emblem.
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One of my favorite stories!
- By M. Cook on 08-06-18
By: Baroness Orczy
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The Mystery of the Blue Jar
- A Short Story
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Christopher Lee
- Length: 43 mins
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Every morning at the same hour on the golf course, Jack Hartington hears mysterious cries for help coming from a cottage. He speaks to the resident and learns that she has unsettling dreams of a woman with a blue Chinese vase. Believing that the cries for help are from the late Mrs. Turner, the former resident of the cottage, Jack hires a psychic investigator to spend a night in the house, a night which proves to have startling results.
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Quirky plot, it's not one of Christie's best
- By lattetown on 09-05-17
By: Agatha Christie
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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In The Napoleon of Notting Hill, his first novel, G. K. Chesterton creates a witty satire of staid government, set in a London of the future. Auberon Quinn, a common clerk who looks like a cross between a baby and an owl and is often seen standing on his head, is one day told that he has been randomly selected to be His Majesty the King. He decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement - with delightful results.
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Competent but over-stylized reading of great book
- By Nierestel on 02-16-18
By: G. K. Chesterton
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Dombey and Son
- By: Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 36 hrs and 59 mins
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In this carefully crafted novel, Dickens reveals the complexity of London society in the enterprising 1840s as he takes the listener into the business firm and home of one of its most representative patriarchs, Paul Dombey.
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Perfect pair
- By Philip on 03-25-08
By: Charles Dickens
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The Gilded Age
- By: Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
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The Gilded Age is the collaborative work of Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirized the era that followed the Civil War. This period is often referred to as the “Gilded Age” because of this book. The corruption and greed that was typical of the time is exemplified through two fictional narratives: one, of the Hawkins, a poor family from Tennessee that tries to persuade the government to purchase their seventy-five thousand acres of unimproved land.
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An American classic, beautifully narrated
- By TX lilbit on 03-31-12
By: Mark Twain, and others