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    The Stolen White Elephant
    The Stolen White Elephant
    The Stolen White Elephant
    Audiobook45 minutes

    The Stolen White Elephant

    Written by Mark Twain

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    Calamity strikes when the precious gift of a white elephant from the King of Siam to the Queen of England is stolen in America. But it is the hilarious antics of the detectives trying to track down the beast which occupies us. As the rampaging elephant heads east, or maybe west, or possibly north or south, it leaves a trail of death and destruction. But it seems that not even the finest detectives in the land and offers of ever greater rewards can pinpoint the animal's whereabouts. Until finally it turns up in the least likely place of all...
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateMar 18, 2013
    ISBN9781467668811
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    Mark Twain

    Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, left school at age 12. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher, which furnished him with a wide knowledge of humanity and the perfect grasp of local customs and speech manifested in his writing. It wasn't until The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), that he was recognized by the literary establishment as one of the greatest writers America would ever produce. Toward the end of his life, plagued by personal tragedy and financial failure, Twain grew more and more cynical and pessimistic. Though his fame continued to widen--Yale and Oxford awarded him honorary degrees--he spent his last years in gloom and desperation, but he lives on in American letters as "the Lincoln of our literature."

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      Remarks on The Stolen White Elephant and Other Detective Stories (New York: Oxford University Press; 1996)When it came to writing detective fiction, Mark Twain was a failure. The only thing he got right about detectives is that they are like most other people: a lot of stupid, self-promoting frauds.In The Stolen White Elephant, Twain japes detectives themselves and goes beyond that to mock people who are fascinated by a mode of crime detection that Twain clearly regarded as a load of literary bull. More plainly: Flat-footed, criminally motivated law dogs get a whuppin' here. So do readers who believe in the genius of "scientific" crime detection à la Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle.Tom Sawyer, Detective and A Double Barreled Detective Story don't poke fun at readers so much as they hammer Holmes and Watson (in character as Tom and Huck) and Conan Doyle (in character as Holmes). Twain made his point effectively and delivered a few chuckles by the way.I won't call it genius. I won't call it crap. I will say that those who truly admire Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle should avoid this book if they don't want their fun ruined by seeing the author and his immortal protagonist stripped naked and flayed.Two stars for fair-to-middlin' crime-story parody; one for Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning; a fourth for The Great Revolution in Pitcairn. If that story isn't true, it ought to be.