The Nature of a Crime


Read by Mark Leder

(2.9 stars; 5 reviews)

The first of three collaborations between Conrad and Ford. On the verge of being found out in a matter of breach of fiduciary trust and financial scandal, the anonymous narrator contemplates suicide in a series of letters to his beloved. (1 hr 58 min)

Chapters

Preface 10:59 Read by Mark Leder
Chapter 1 22:49 Read by Mark Leder
Chapter 2 9:23 Read by Mark Leder
Chapter 3 5:02 Read by Mark Leder
Chapter 4 15:36 Read by Mark Leder
Chapter 5 16:20 Read by Mark Leder
Chapter 6 16:12 Read by Mark Leder
Chapter 7 10:23 Read by Mark Leder
Chapter 8 11:59 Read by Mark Leder

Reviews

Spirited reading of an amusingly warped tale


(4 stars)

Mr Leder reads this bizarre monologue in a spirit entirely in accord with is gleeful and often self-pitying malevolence. The tale itself sounds a little like an early dress rehearsal for the far superior The Good Soldier, and surely bears much more Ford’s stamp than Conrad’s, even if nominally a collaboration.