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The Chinese Orange Mystery
- The Ellery Queen Mysteries 1934
- Narrated by: Richard Waterhouse
- Length: 9 hrs
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Summary
A puzzling publishing murder attracts the eye of Ellery Queen.
Mandarin Press is a premier publishing house for foreign literature, but to those at the top of this enterprise, there is little more beautiful than a rare stamp. As Donald Kirk, publisher and philatelist, prepares his office for a banquet, an unfamiliar man comes to call. No one recognizes him, but Kirk’s staff is used to strange characters visiting their boss, so Kirk’s secretary asks him to wait in the anteroom. Within an hour, the mysterious visitor is dead on the floor, head bashed in with a fireplace poker, and everything in the anteroom has been quite literally turned upside down. The rug is backwards; the furniture is backwards; even the dead man’s clothes have been put on front-to-back.
As debonair detective Ellery Queen pries into the secrets of Mandarin Press, every clue he finds is topsy-turvy. The great sleuth must tread lightly, for walking backwards is a surefire way to step off a cliff.
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- Florence Delaney
- 29-09-14
Read veeeery slooooowly
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I had to watch this on a minimum of 1.25x to prevent my mind from wandering off mid-sentence as the poor reader inched his way through syllables like a drugged sloth. I put up with the resultant squeakiness, but it was decidedly sub-optimal. Bit of a shame, as this is an entertaining mystery.
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- Tess D
- 02-06-23
Could be narrated better by a robot
Boring writing, boring narration, boring story. I listened because it was free, but in the end it just wittered on in the background and I zoned out. I’m being kind giving two stars
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- Robyn
- 10-03-23
not worth it
to be fair this was the only book in the series that I've done but this book is like someone wrote a very complicated mystery and just had the main character know how thing we're done even though it sounds so dumb
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