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Twice Round the Clock
- De: Billie Houston
- Narrado por: Nick Rawlinson
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20
Horace Manning, scientist, recluse and 'closed book' even to his friends, is found dead in his study at 4a.m., following a dinner in honour of his daughter's engagement. An ivory-handled carving knife rests between his shoulder blades as the houseguests gather round to witness the awful crime. The telephone line has been sabotaged - a calculated murder has been committed. Rewinding twelve hours, the events of the afternoon and evening unfold, revealing a multitude of clues and motives from a closed cast of suspects.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Vile, predictable, trigger warnings. Great reader.
- De Meep en 03-10-24
- Twice Round the Clock
- De: Billie Houston
- Narrado por: Nick Rawlinson
What a great story!
Revisado: 03-03-24
Excellent narration. Even though I figured out part of the ending ahead of time, it didn’t spoil it. Very compelling characters. Highly recommend.
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Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- De: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrado por: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Duración: 18 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 8,975
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7,820
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 7,776
The prize-winning and best-selling author of Say Nothing presents a grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. Empire of Pain is a masterpiece of narrative reporting and writing, exhaustively documented and ferociously compelling.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Full Account of the Sackler Conspiracy
- De Edward Bisch en 04-13-21
- Empire of Pain
- The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
- De: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrado por: Patrick Radden Keefe
Riviting
Revisado: 01-14-22
Extremely readable and interesting. Very well narrated by the author. Recommended to anyone who is interested in how pharmaceutical companies operate and in the personalities and motivations of the Sacklers
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Murder in the Mill-Race
- British Library Crime Classic
- De: E.C.R. Lorac
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 109
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 108
When Dr Raymond Ferens moves to a practice at Milham in the Moor in north Devon, he and his wife are enchanted with the beautiful hilltop village lying so close to moor and sky. At first they see only its charm, but soon they begin to uncover its secrets - envy, hatred and malice. Everyone says that Sister Monica, warden of a children's home, is a saint - but is she? A few months after the Ferens' arrival her body is found drowned in the mill-race. Chief Inspector Macdonald faces one of his most difficult cases in a village determined not to betray its dark secrets to a stranger.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A True Gem!
- De Sarah en 04-18-20
- Murder in the Mill-Race
- British Library Crime Classic
- De: E.C.R. Lorac
- Narrado por: David Thorpe
Good classic, atmospheric mystery
Revisado: 11-29-21
I enjoyed this story. Very well written and narrated. All the voices were distinctly differentiated. The mystery wasn’t too hard to figure out but the atmosphere and descriptions of the landscape and people were very absorbing. Recommended.
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Go Down Together
- The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
- De: Jeff Guinn
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
- Duración: 16 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,387
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,195
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,199
With dramatic flair, Jeff Guinn delivers the definitive portrait of Bonnie and Clyde. These media-savvy outlaws appealed to America's Depression-era hunger for swashbuckling characters. Glowing radio and newspaper reports transformed these "public enemies" into celebrities - much like the cinema gangsters of the time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bravo!
- De Tim en 09-09-09
- Go Down Together
- The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde
- De: Jeff Guinn
- Narrado por: Jonathan Hogan
Detailed But Very Grim
Revisado: 04-15-21
This book is interesting but extremely grim. It is incredibly detailed and well-researched but hard to listen to because of the harsh and brutal situations depicted. It is very sad and doesn’t romanticize Clyde and Bonnie. The narrator is fine and the stories of the Parker & Barrow families are very fully covered. There is no suspense. The story ends as badly as possible and as everyone expected, even at the time.
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Great Contemporaries
- De: Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
- Duración: 11 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 27
Great Contemporaries profiles towering figures ranging from Franklin Roosevelt, Adolf Hitler, Lawrence of Arabia and Leon Trotsky to Charlie Chaplin, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling and George Bernard Shaw. Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, the essays in Great Contemporaries focus on the challenges of statecraft at a time when the democratic revolution was toppling older regimes based on tradition and aristocratic privilege.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Somewhat dated but interesting
- De JSL en 07-27-18
- Great Contemporaries
- De: Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
Somewhat dated but interesting
Revisado: 07-27-18
Many of Churchill’s “great contemporaries” are not very well remembered today but nevertheless the profiles here are absorbing. Churchill has a florid style and the narrator gives it its full value. Many political scores are settled, but Churchill shows respect even for those he doesn’t like. All the profiles were written in the 1930’s, so the constant references to “the war” refer to World War I. A familiarity with late 19th century English political history helps a listener to follow these accounts.
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Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- De: John Carreyrou
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 11 h y 37 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 39,158
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 34,704
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 34,635
In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup “unicorn” promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Tim Draper, Theranos sold shares in a fundraising round that valued the company at more than $9 billion, putting Holmes’s worth at an estimated $4.5 billion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Extreme retaliation against former employees
- De LEE en 05-29-18
- Bad Blood
- Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
- De: John Carreyrou
- Narrado por: Will Damron
Great Book
Revisado: 06-20-18
This is a very interesting and important book, well written and very well narrated. I was only vaguely familiar with the Theranos story before listening. Elizabeth Holmes is a stunning example of hubris and her boyfriend Sunny Balwani comes across as a bully and rageaholic. Several famous men also fare very poorly in this narrative, including George Shultz, James Mattis, and David Boise. Highly recommended.
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Charles Paris: The Cinderella Killer
- A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- De: Simon Brett, Jeremy Front
- Narrado por: Suzanne Burden, Bill Nighy, full cast
- Duración: 1 h y 52 m
- Grabación Original
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General5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 77
A job in pantomime seems the perfect way to spend the Christmas season for Charles, but the cast of Cinderella are a motley crew from reality TV and Charles finds himself having to explain the traditions of panto to their baffled American star whose career is on a downward trajectory. When the star is shot dead, and Charles finds the body, he finds himself under suspicion.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Jeremy Front, smashing
- De juldarr en 02-02-17
- Charles Paris: The Cinderella Killer
- A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation
- De: Simon Brett, Jeremy Front
- Narrado por: Suzanne Burden, Bill Nighy, full cast
Charles Paris Rules
Revisado: 05-27-18
Bill Nighy and Suzanne Burden are fabulous as always as Charles and Frances. Another smashing time with the whole crew. The different rings on Charles’ phone alone are worth the credit.
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Northanger Abbey
- An Audible Original Drama
- De: Jane Austen, Anna Lea - adaptation
- Narrado por: Emma Thompson, Douglas Booth, Eleanor Tomlinson, y otros
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
- Grabación Original
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 5,925
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 5,409
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 5,382
A coming-of-age tale for the young and naïve 17-year-old Catherine Morland, Northanger Abbey takes a decidedly comical look at themes of class, family, love and literature. Revelling in the sensationalist - and extremely popular - Gothic fiction of her day, the story follows Catherine out of Bath to the lofty manor of the Tilneys, where her overactive imagination gets to work constructing an absurd and melodramatic explanation for the death of Mrs Tilney, which threatens to jeopardise her newly forged friendships.
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1 out of 5 stars
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There is no substitute for unabridged
- De D. Littman en 09-08-17
- Northanger Abbey
- An Audible Original Drama
- De: Jane Austen, Anna Lea - adaptation
- Narrado por: Emma Thompson, Douglas Booth, Eleanor Tomlinson, Ella Purnell, Jeremy Irvine, Lily Cole
I loved it.
Revisado: 09-28-17
This is a faithful dramatization of the novel--well-acted and funny. Henry Tilney is my favorite Jane Austen hero. And, Elizabeth Thompson is a great narrator/voice of Jane Austen in this production. Well done, Audible!
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Death in Kenya
- De: M. M. Kaye
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 83
When Victoria Caryll is offered a position at Flamingo, her aunt's family estate in Kenya's Rift Valley, she accepts - knowing full well that the move will give her a chance to see Eden DeBrett once again, the man she was previously engaged to. But she doesn't realize that coming to her aunt's home will introduce her to an unstable region still recovering from the bloody Mau Mau revolt, and to a household thrown into grief by a recent murder.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Brilliantly written suspense novel !
- De Kathi en 03-17-13
- Death in Kenya
- De: M. M. Kaye
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
Good mystery but dated language.
Revisado: 12-30-16
I like most of MM Kaye's books and this one has a good mystery with lots of suspects and red herrings. For me, the book was marred by racial and ethnic slurs and negative stereotypes of Africans. I know the book dates from the mid-1950s but this language is jarring -- so be prepared. The narrator was very good.
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The Secrets of Wishtide
- De: Kate Saunders
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 10 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,551
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 4,147
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 4,129
Mrs. Laetitia Rodd, aged 52, is the widow of an archdeacon who makes her living as a highly discreet private investigator. Her brother, Frederick Tyson, is a criminal barrister living in nearby Highgate with his wife and 10 children. Frederick finds the cases, and Laetitia solves them using her arch intelligence and her immaculate cover as an unsuspecting widow. When a case arises involving the son of the highly connected Sir James Calderstone, Laetitia sets off for Lincolnshire undercover as the family's new governess.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thoroughly enjoyable
- De Episteme en 12-31-16
- The Secrets of Wishtide
- De: Kate Saunders
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
Great Narration
Revisado: 12-26-16
The story is overlong and the mystery isn't very hard to solve, but the narrator is very good. It makes the story and characters interesting even when the plot seems padded.
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