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Sounds Like Murder
Clean American Fun
By Newman, Christopher W. & Penzler, Otto & Fleming, Kevin & Larson, Darrell & Anderson, Marjorie O. & Sherry Huber & Kessler, Robert R.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-37540-202-9
- Publisher
- Random House Audio
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 1998
Drivers fumbling with cassettes will certainly appreciate unabridged stories by the best mystery authors, excellently read, two hours long, on a single cassette. Selected and edited by Edgar Award-winner Otto Penzler, the first six of these adult stories (the others are June Thompson's The Case of the Scottish Tragedy, read by Simon Jones; Stephen Solomita's The Poster Boy, read by Jason Culp; and Peter Lovesey's The Sedgemoor Strangler, read by Barbara Rosenblatt) deal with real-life situations in mature language. In A Tale About a Tiger, excellently read by Patricia Kalember, PI Lydia Chin is asked to infiltrate the illegal trade in animal parts that supports some pharmaceutical concoctions used in traditional Chinese medicine. Listeners learn interesting bits about Chinese American culture, traditional Asian medicine, and the black market in illegal animal parts. Besides all that, it's amusing and reasonably suspenseful. Driving Lessons, read by Barbara Rosenblatt, is...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
