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    The Devil's Garden
    The Devil's Garden
    The Devil's Garden
    Audiobook15 minutes

    The Devil's Garden

    Written by Allan Zullo

    Narrated by John Ratzenberger

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The Devil's Garden from the Haunted Kids spine-chilling audiobook collection by Allan Zullo of true ghost stories that have happened to real kids. A perfect way to set the tone for Halloween or anytime you want an eerie tale to keep you up at night!

    Listen in as actor John Ratzenberger tells the following story: The Devil's Garden

    Two kids get lost in a dark, snake-infested, alligator-thriving swamp as night approaches. Suddenly, a mysterious girl appears and leads them to safety. They later learn she was the ghost of a girl who had died in the swamp.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 20, 2008
    ISBN9781423380634
    The Devil's Garden
    Author

    Allan Zullo

    In 1969, Allan Zullo graduated with a journalism degree from Northern Illinois University where he worked on the school's daily paper, The Northern Star, first as a sportswriter, then news editor, managing editor and finally editor-in-chief. Allan created and wrote "The Ghost Story Club" daily comic strip, which was syndicated nationally by Tribune Media Services from 1995 to 1998. For more than 16 years, Allan has produced dozens of annual boxed daily-page calendars for Andrews McMeel Publishing. Today Allan is the author and co-author of more than 80 current and forthcoming nonfiction trade paperbacks. Allan lives with his wife Kathryn (his childhood sweetheart and most honest critic) on the side of a mountain in Fairview, North Carolina, minutes from downtown Asheville, which some call Paris of the South or Little San Francisco of the East.

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      Enter Samuel Dashiell Hammett ..The year is 1921 and Sam, war veteran and current Pinkerton operativeis involved in the investigation of Virginia Rappe's death...supposedly byFatty Arbuckle ( as host of a wild San Franciscan party)Doing an audio, I was a little taken back by the street talk of the time andneeded to be attentive to changes in scene (characters often "sounded" similar)............it was however, a pleasure to meet the hard boiled crime writer in his earlier years.
    • 5/5
      Enjoyed this very much, far exceeded expectations. The mood was excellent; this story felt like La-SF early 1920's throughout. The story was very interesting and stayed close enough to real events to read like true crime. This is real noir, without slipping into the now cliched lines of Chandler and Hammett. As you read how the trial plays out, you get a sense of justice during those days, and then give thanks for the fairer system we have evolved to - or have we.....? There are no heroes here, and while the last few chapters lead to the inevitable conclusion they did in real life, there is a slam-bam ending relaying an event I had not heard of before, one that just like the Arbuckle story, remains a mystery to this day.
    • 4/5
      This hardboiled historical mystery is based on the three real life and highly publicized manslaughter trials of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, one of the highest paid silent film stars in the early days of Hollywood. It's 1921 and prohibition had been enacted a year earlier when Arbuckle throws a wild party full of bootlegged liquor and broads on Labor Day weekend at San Francisco's deluxe St Francis Hotel. Virginia Rappe, a washed up bit actress, crashes the party with some friends and ends up drunk, seriously ill, and half naked in Roscoe's room. A few days later she's dead and the media, lead by William Randolph Hearst's newspapers, sensationalize the story claiming Arbuckle's immense bulk crushed the girl. Arbuckle is accused of rape by Miss Rappe's friend Mrs. Delmont and witnesses begin to conveniently disappear. Whipped into a frenzy by the media's allegations the public convict Arbuckle long before the trial begins. Enter stage left, the Pinkerton Detective Sam Hammett, later known as Dashiell, hired to dig up the goods on Miss Rappe and the rest of the party goers who all seem to have some kind of ulterior motive. The Police have an agenda as well and it isn't about uncovering the truth. Littered with a cast of Hollywood characters from Charlie Chaplin to Marian Davies the story is captivating and Atkins's grasp of the vernacular bring fact and fiction together into a wonderfully gritty tale. Gumshoes, girls, greed, and graft make for the perfect noir novel.