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Israel ZangwillThe Big Bow Mystery (August 5, 2007)

LibriVox recording of The Big Bow Mystery, by Israel Zangwill. Read by Adrian Praetzellis.

It's a cold and foggy night in London. A man is horribly murdered in his bedroom, the door locked and bolted on the inside. Scotland Yard is stumped. Yet the seemingly unsolvable case has, as Inspector Grodman says, "one sublimely simple solution" that is revealed in a final chapter full of revelations and a shocking denouement. Detective fiction afficionados will be happy to learn that all the evidence to solve the case is provided. One of the earliest “locked room” mystery stories, The Big Bow Mystery is also a satire of late Victorian society. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)

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Artist/Composer: Israel Zangwill
Date: 2007-08-05
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: librivox; literature; audiobooks; mystery; zangwill; england; satire

Creative Commons license: Public Domain


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Average Rating: [4.0 out of 5 stars]

Reviewer: mcm2500 - [5.0 out of 5 stars] - September 1, 2008
Subject: Very Good
I liked this book very much. Very interesting and amusing. The reader did a very nice job!

Reviewer: B143 - [4.0 out of 5 stars] - August 19, 2008
Subject: Great book, great reading.
I had never heard of Israel Zangwill, but enjoyed this book thoroughly. Adrian Praetzellis' reading is of a very high standard and really helps to add colour to both setting and character. The book is very well written, managing to not only provide a genuinely intriguing mystery, but also to broadly examine the society of the time; often with a gentle, satirical humour. Highly recommended.

Reviewer: MickR - [5.0 out of 5 stars] - May 15, 2008
Subject: A really good book
This reading is excellent. The reader breathes life into the various characters by his skill with accents. The book is both fascinating and funny.

Recommended

Reviewer: Philippe Horak - [5.0 out of 5 stars] - April 7, 2008
Subject: A splendid reading
This is arguably the first 'locked-room' mystery novel (1892 UK; 1895 US), that is, a detective story in which the puzzle aspect is the critical element of the plot rather than being an ancillary item, as it was in Le Fanu's Uncle Silas, for example. It is also a pre-Golden-Age-of-Detection prototype in that it follows the rules of 'fair play' by providing the evidence for the solution in the form of clues imbedded in the text, supplies alternative solutions and suspects -- the classic 'red herring' approach -- and has a 'least-likely' suspect as the villain. All that it is lacking is what we would call a proper detective who out-thinks the reader.
Many thanks to Adrian Praetzellis whose performance is commendable. A highly recommended reading.


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