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He Who Whispers

By: John Dickson Carr
Narrated by: Kris Dyer
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About this listen

When Miles Hammond is invited to a meeting of the Murder Club in London, he is met instead with just two other guests and is treated to a strange tale of an impossible crime in France years before; the murder of a man on a tower with only one staircase, under watch at the time at which the murder took place. With theories of levitating vampires abounding, the story comes home to Miles when he realises that the librarian he has just hired for his home is none other than Fay Seton, a woman at the heart of this bizarre and unsolved past murder.

Carr considered this novel one of his best works, and it is easy to see why when experiencing its ingenious plot delivered with an astounding pace and masterfully drawn characters including none other than the great detective Dr Gideon Fell.

©1946, 2023 The Estate of Clarice M. Carr, Martin Edwards (P)2023 Soundings Crime Fiction Mystery Traditional Detectives

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A promising listen but Carrs style grated often on me. His use of the interrogatory was maddeningly repetitive and the unresolved ending frustrating. Well narrated by Kris Dyer and some reasonable depictions of landscape and character.

Not the best Carr

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I liked the fact that the trail was all there even if you didn’t guess.

Very clever plot

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I don’t wish to add anything to the title above and don’t understand why I need to leave a minimum of 15 words in the review!

Impossibly convoluted conclusion brilliantly read

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I kept reading hoping it would get improve. Worst book I have read in images. Avoid

Slow and boring

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