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The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries

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The Big Book of Victorian Mysteries

By: Otto Penzler - editor
Narrated by: Rachael Beresford, Stephen Bowlby, Dan Calley
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Edgar Award winner Otto Penzler—"detective fiction's best editor and champion" (The Washington Post)—returns with a new anthology of exhilarating mysteries, assembling Victorian society's lords and ladies and most miserable miscreants.

Behind the velvet curtains of horse-drawn carriages and amid the soft glow of the gaslights are the detectives and bobbies sniffing out the safecrackers and petty purloiners who plague everything from the soot-covered side streets of London to the opulent manors of the countryside. With his latest title in the Big Book series, Otto Penzler is cracking cases and serving up the most thrilling, suspenseful Victorian mysteries.

This collection brings together incredible stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Guy de Maupassant, among other legendary writers of the grand era of the British Empire. So brush off your dinner jackets and straighten out your ball gowns for these exciting, glitzy mysteries.

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So badly read. Just because the stories are Victorian doesn’t mean the narrators should be.

An interesting collection

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I’m sure the stories in this are very interesting, but I just couldn’t listen due to the absolutely awful narrators….may as well just have had ‘text to voice’ on!

Horrific narration!

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Sadly I found this hard to listen to, the male voice was boring and poorly read. Sorry.

Male voice poor

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