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Classic Crime Short Stories

By: Ruth Rendell, Graham Greene, more, G. K. Chesterton
Narrated by: Jack Shepherd, Patrick Malahide
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Summary

Discover a world of heroes and villains, suspense and intrigue. This riveting and comprehensive collection brings together some of the best crime writing of all time. Ruth Rendell and Frances Hegarty spearhead the modern genre, moving through the popular and rarely recorded Graham Greene, to Edgar Wallace and G.K. Chesterton and his master detective Father Brown. And that's not all.

You can find the following on this title: "Loopy", "The Missing Romney", "Insufficient Evidence", The Compleat Criminal", "The Case for the Defence", "Markheim", "The Blue Cross", "Bluebeard's Bathtub", "Nine Point of the Law", "Arsene Lupin in Prison".

This collection includes stories from Ruth Rendell, Frances Hegarty, E.W. Hornung, Graham Greene, Margery Allingham, Charles Dickens, G.K. Chesterton, Maurice Leblanc, Edgar Wallace, and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Public Domain (P)2005 CSA Telltapes Ltd
Classics
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overall very enjoyable

Would you listen to Classic Crime Short Stories again? Why?

I enjoyed this overall. Some of the stories were better than others. I found myself skipping a couple of them, as they were slightly dull. But generally they were dark, funny, unpredictable, twisted and rather savage.

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Awful

A collection of unimpressive and uncorrelated short stores -whilst a couple are ok most are dull and and certainly not amongst the best the authors penned.
Hard to even forward to next story as chapters are not relevant and unnamed.

Don't wast your money or credit on this - a very poor offering curated by Audible.

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Classic Crime Short Stories (Unabridged)

Very enjoyable, some very weird stories.

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Chapters are a waste of time

Why ,oh why don’t chapters equate to stories?

As it is it is impossible to skip stories or locate start points

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