Death wears a beauty mask : and other stories
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442387065
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Physical Description:
sound recording (CD)
sound disc
8 sound discs (570 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 inch disc. - Edition: Unabridged edition.
- Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Audio, p2015
Content descriptions
General Note: | 8 audio compact discs in 2 containers. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Death wears a beauty mask -- Stowaway -- When the bough breaks -- Voices in the coalbin -- The Cape Cod masquerade -- Definitely, a crime of passion -- The man next door -- Haven't we met before? -- The funniest thing has been happening lately -- The tell-tale purr. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | FOR USE WITH A CD-AUDIO PLAYER |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Jan Maxwell and Robert Petkoff. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Audiobooks Detective and mystery stories, American Short stories, American |
Available copies
- 7 of 7 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 0 of 0 copies available at Creston Public Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 7 total copies.
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- Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2015 July #4
Tony Awardânominated actress Maxwell, the narrator of many of bestseller Clark's audiobooks, reads the author's informative introduction and seven of the eight short stories in this collection, as well as the title novella. All of the shorts are entertaining and well performed, but a few of them stand out. In "Stowaway," first published in 1958, a stewardess on a flight from an occupied (and only vaguely identified) country hides a young member of the underground from a brutal police commissioner, and Maxwell presents her with a teeth-clenched, nerves-of-steel delivery while portraying the commissioner, in all his unpleasantness, with a snarling Russian accent. "A Crime of Passion" features former U.S. president Henry Parker Britland IV and his wife, Sandra, who give off a Nick and Nora vibe as they try to defend his secretary of state from a murder charge. As for the one entry not read by Maxwell, "The Tell-Tale Purr" is a goof on the famous Poe short story. Petkoff does a splendid job of giving voice to the effete, homicidal narrator, but the story and its final joke are about as thin as, well, a cat's whisker. A Simon & Schuster hardcover. (Apr.)
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