Meet Me at the Morgue – Ross Macdonald Free Audiobook

Written by Ross Macdonald
Read by Grover Gardner
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Meet Me at the Morgue (1954) aka Experience With Evil

Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Release date: April 16, 2009
Duration: 05:51:12

Meet Me at the Morgue is the story of a kidnapping that led to four murders. In his search for the killer, Howard Cross digs deep into the Los Angeles underworld, finding along the way a beautiful, lost adolescent mourning a dead lover, a suitcase hidden under an aging sadist’s bed, and a slovenly gentleman with an ice pick in his neck. Ross Macdonald has never written a story quite like this, and neither has anyone else.

Listening to MEET ME AT THE MORGUE is like stepping into a time machine. Offices have typewriters and Dictaphones. WWII is “The War.” And a 50K kidnap ransom would pay a “secretary’s salary for twenty years.” This is a gorgeous look at the late 1940s through the eyes of Howard Cross, county probation officer… Grover Gardner is stuffy as Cross, whose righteous homilies have a judgmental tone, and folksy as the grocery clerk whose ice picks cost 26 cents. While his women characters seem more like caricatures, overall Gardner provides fine listening for Macdonald fans.