Edward Hardwicke (1932–2011)
Autor de Classic Detective Stories
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Créditos de la imagen: Edward Harwicke
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1932-08-07
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2011-05-16
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- London, England, UK
- Ocupaciones
- actor
Miembros
Reseñas
Classic Detective Stories
Audio recording was very hard to follow
A good selection of short mysteries with outstanding narration by Edward Hardwicke. My favourite stories were The Dying Detective by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and The Burglar by Colin Dexter.
This is a rather strange collection and I can't help wondering about how it was put together.
(I couldn't help wondering if they were stories without any copyright hindrances).
To start with, the blurb on the CD pack of 4 CDs says that there are 10 stories, but there are only 8.
I have found the original edition containing 10 stories here.
The only "modern" authors are Colin Dexter and Muriel Spark, and my listening companion remarked how old fashioned some of the other stories felt.
The stories do introduce detectives such as Edgar Wallace's J.G. Reeder and Sax Rhomer's Morris Klaw, whom modern readers would not be familiar with. But to bill these particular eight stories as "some of the best crime fiction ever written" is rather misleading.
From an audio point of view, there was a bit of variability in volume level and recording quality, which was annoying.
The Father Brown story, Chesterton's The Man in the Passage was probably the cleverest, but I think I enjoyed the crispness of Chimes by Muriel Spark the best.… (más)
(I couldn't help wondering if they were stories without any copyright hindrances).
To start with, the blurb on the CD pack of 4 CDs says that there are 10 stories, but there are only 8.
I have found the original edition containing 10 stories here.
The only "modern" authors are Colin Dexter and Muriel Spark, and my listening companion remarked how old fashioned some of the other stories felt.
The stories do introduce detectives such as Edgar Wallace's J.G. Reeder and Sax Rhomer's Morris Klaw, whom modern readers would not be familiar with. But to bill these particular eight stories as "some of the best crime fiction ever written" is rather misleading.
From an audio point of view, there was a bit of variability in volume level and recording quality, which was annoying.
The Father Brown story, Chesterton's The Man in the Passage was probably the cleverest, but I think I enjoyed the crispness of Chimes by Muriel Spark the best.… (más)
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- 21
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- Popularidad
- #449,942
- Valoración
- 3.6
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 14