Stories from The Detective's Album


Lu par Kirsty Leishman

(4.6 stars; 36 reviews)

Mary Fortune is best known for The Detective's Album, the longest-running early detective serial anywhere in the world. Written under the name Waif Wander and narrated by detective Mark Sinclair, The Detective's Album was serialized for forty years in the Australian Journal from 1868 to 1908. (Wikipedia)

These stories were read from scans from the University of Queensland library - there is no online Etext. (9 hr 39 min)

Chapitres

01 - The Window Among the Willows 57:19 Lu par Kirsty Leishman
02 - The Murder at the Creek 52:24 Lu par Kirsty Leishman
03 - Checkmate and Revenge 1:02:07 Lu par Kirsty Leishman
04 - Tom Doyle's Dream 53:15 Lu par Kirsty Leishman
05 - "I'll be hung for you yet." 1:16:00 Lu par Kirsty Leishman
06 - The Fatal Cliff 57:44 Lu par Kirsty Leishman
07 - The Bell of Mount Battery 54:59 Lu par Kirsty Leishman
08 - The Blood of the Grape 45:30 Lu par Kirsty Leishman
09 - The Gutter Flag 1:00:13 Lu par Kirsty Leishman
10 - The Rosary of the Dead 1:00:07 Lu par Kirsty Leishman

Critiques

Excellent collection of short mystery stories


(5 stars)

Not all of them end happy, but the guilty party is certainly caught. I found all of them great listens except for the last one. That was was pretty sad and painful to listen to. I think if I had been the author, I would have started the collection with that one and put happier ones at the end so the overall story ends on a positive note. But that's just IMHO. :-) Reader was excellent.

Thank You Kirsty


(5 stars)

Series of stories about earlier times in Austrakia. I had not read or heard of these, though I knew of the Journal. Wonderfully read, as though an aunt was reading to me. Some stories I liked better than others and overall a great listen.

Thank you Kristy


(5 stars)

I’ve listened to these stories many times, and here I am again. This time I looked up Mary Fortune on Wikipedia and wow, she was quite a character. I’m sure I’ll be back in a couple more years to go through them once again.


(4.5 stars)

great book, well written liked the style and the different chpts recording a different type of case. very well read. thankyou.

very good


(5 stars)

one started had to listen to them all. very good reader (s)


(5 stars)

Great stories well read. Hope there are more coming!


(5 stars)

Sparky. Each so different…well written…stories intriguing…unexpected endings…well read