The Black Spectacles (1939) – John Dickson Carr Free Audiobook

Written by John Dickson Carr
Read by Kris Dyer
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

The Black Spectacles
By: John Dickson Carr
Narrated by: Kris Dyer
Series: Dr. Gideon Fell, Book 10
Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release date: 01-07-2023
Language: English
Publisher: Isis Publishing Ltd

A sinister case of deadly poisoned chocolates from Sodbury Cross’s high street shop haunts the group of friends and relatives assembled at Bellegarde, among the orchards of ‘peach-fancier’ Marcus Chesney. To prove a point about how the sweets could have been poisoned under the nose of the shopkeeper, Chesney stages an elaborate memory game to test whether any of his guests can see beyond their ‘black spectacles’; that is, to see the truth without assumptions as witnesses. During the test – which is also being filmed – Chesney is murdered by his accomplice, dressed head to toe in an ‘invisible man’ disguise. The keen wits of Dr Gideon Fell are called for to crack this brazen and bizarre murder. This classic novel is widely regarded as one of John Dickson Carr’s masterpieces and remains among the greatest impossible crime mysteries of all time.

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