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Classic Railway Murders

4 Unabridged Mysteries

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These masterful stories reflect the classic railway era in Britain and provide the perfect setting for the perfect murder—or almost perfect. Challenge your own skills of deduction as you match wits with the best. Narrator Patrick Malahide's evocation of time, place, and culture is imbued with moody mystery most fine.

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"The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway" by Baroness Orczy: A murder is committed in full view of passengers, and yet nobody seems to be aware of the tragic incident.

"The Mysterious Railway Passenger" by Maurice Leblanc: A notorious villain dupes the police and escapes through his ingenuity and audacity.

"A Warning in Red" by Victor Whitechurch and E. Conway: A man's body is found on the railway line, but could not have been thrown out of the train as supposed by the police.

"The Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express" by Freeman Wills Crofts: A murderer escapes from a moving train with the victims and an innocent bystander locked inside their compartment.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Here are four short stories return from the era of Sherlock Holmes by nearly forgotten popular adventure writers of the day. For instance, the Baroness Orczy created the dashing Scarlet Pimpernel, a British lord who rescued innocent victims of the French Revolution and who became patriarch of all dual-identity crusaders of fiction. Her story, "The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway," is an intricate tale of Gothic mystery. Malahide reads it and the other tales in the scratchy tones made familiar by his TV portrayal of Ngaio Marsh's Inspector Alleyn. With astonishing deftness, he uses this unpromising instrument to deliver, not only strong portrayals of the characters, but evocations of time, place and culture. He manages to tame the turgid Edwardian melodrama so that it retains its character without sounding excessive. Y.R. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

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