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    The Secret Passage
    The Secret Passage
    The Secret Passage
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Secret Passage

    Written by Fergus Hume

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NYT Saturday Review of Books described this audiobook as follows: "That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o'-lantern murder mysteries.

    It begins with a queer and rich old woman found stabbed to death in her chair and not a clue to the murderer. Then so many clues turn up that even the story-book detective is bewildered. Then nearly everybody turns out to be somebody else under an alias, and all the clues lead nowhere..."

    Summary by Dawn Larsen and J.M. Smallheer

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    ISBN9781094250137
    Author

    Fergus Hume

    Fergus Hume (1859–1932) was born in England and raised in New Zealand. He immigrated to Australia in 1885 and was working as a clerk in a Melbourne barrister’s office when he wrote The Mystery of a Hansom Cab (1886). The bestselling crime novel of the nineteenth century, it served as inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes.

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    • 3/5
      The story was a good one, albeit a bit hard to follow. It would have been much more enjoyable without so many readers. The Asian lady was very hard to listen to!

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    • 3/5
      This story has many twists and turns. I found it difficult to stay with.
    • 2/5
      Good story but poorly read. There were many mispronounced words!!
    • 4/5
      The plot and storyline is really good. Narrators not so much. Using multiple narrators was challenging to keep on track with the storyline.
    • 5/5
      Great characters, perfect depth of ambience-wish it were longer!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
    • 5/5
      Good story; the styles and pronunciations of the readers varied a lot and made it difficult to follow the story.
    • 3/5
      This was an interesting mystery with very odd people acting very strangely.
    • 1/5
      Terrible narration. Not worth the effort. I stopped after a short time.