Ellery Queen’s Crookbook – ed. Ellery Queen Free Audiobook
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Read by Randy Atcher
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
Ellery Queen’s Crookbook: 25 Stories from Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
Edited by Ellery Queen
Encode: mp3 – 64kbps, Mono, 44.1 kHz
Total # of Tracks: 28
Total Play time: 11:30:36
Anthology #279
It’s weird how these anthologies keep hiding from me..
Found this while looking up Asimov, although I swear I did the same thing less than a month ago and this collection did not come up.
I tried to clean the audio up as much as I could; this is an old recording from 1978..
Enjoy
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From the book jacket
The twenty-eighth annual collection from a magazine acknowledged by readers and authors to be Number One in its field. The stories range from pure detection to suspense, horror, humor and psychological grue. In other words, a fulfilling and diverting repast for readers of every taste.
Stories in this collection:
01) Introduction by Ellery Queen
02) Three Ways to Rob a Bank by Harold R. Daniels
03) The Acquisitive Chuckle by Isaac Asimov
04) Woodrow Wilson’s Necktie by Patricia Highsmith
05) A Day of Encounters by Anthony Gilbert
06) The Island of Bright Birds by John Christopher
07) Pickup on the Dover Road by Julian Symons
08) Déjà Vu by Mary Barrett
09) The Other Side of the Wall by Stanley Ellin
10) A Kind of Madness by Anthony Boucher
11) So Lonely, So Lost, So Frightened by Florence V. Mayberry
–Six Best “First Stories” of the Year–
12) A Game in the Sun by John Coyne
13) Open Letter to Survivors by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.
14) The Prayer Wheels by Fritzi Franz Lumen
15) The Dripping by David Morrell
16) The Purple Shroud by Joyce Harrington
17) A Girl Can’t Always Have Everything by Tonita S. Gardner
18) Jerico and the Two Ways to Die by Hugh Pentecost
19) The Theft from the Empty Room by Edward D. Hoch
20) The Coldness of a Thousand Suns by Celia Fremlin
21) The Panic Button by Michael Gilbert
22) The Good Companions by Dana Lyon
23) The Niece from Scotland by Christianna Brand
24) The Resurrection Man by Lillian de la Torre
25) Don’t Worry, Johnny by Robert L. Fish
26) Winner Takes All by Patricia McGerr