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Captivating tale enhanced, Tony, by your vivid narration and interesting commentary. Thanks to both of you, Tony and Gavin. Much appreciated!

Thank you Gavin AND thank you, Mr. Tony. Another excellent narration. Loved this story...had to chuckle at the end. Wondering if he was carrying her head. I've carried my fair share...one!! Decapitation in a major Motor Vehicle Crash (30yrs in the Fire Service). .

This story is written so well, like a carved rosewood box with a secret. At first, not being familiar with John Dixon Car, I thought they had a plot that entrapped H.M. and they did -- just not in the way I thought.

Thank you, Gavin Critchley, and to our esteemed narrator.

A similar setting is Flight of a Witch by Ellis Peters. I literally gasped at the end! Wow!

Thank you, dear Gavin, for making yet another marvelously read Classic Detective Story available to an appreciative audience! 🎉❤😊

Thank you Gavin😊

UK with a US accent? Love it!

That was really a well written tale, kept me guessing until the end & I still didn't get it, until the end was revealed

Very nice short story. As others have mentioned.......I didn't see that coming!

If you have access to good summer peaches, peach melba beats strawberry shortcake, imo.

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They are still called the lower orders

neat

This wenxh has heard enough. Thumb down.

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Superbly read, thank you!!

Thank you Gavin.😃

Analyse John le carre too

Excellent. John Dickson Carr wrote the first 10 episodes of the radio show Suspense. They are my favorite episodes of the show.

Bloody awful.

I found this more interesting when you read it, versus the collection I have from audible. Usually I go to sleep with the Father Brown stories and don't like how the endings leave me wondering about what actually happened. I'm uneasy about religiousity because of my upbringing, so that makes it hard for me to warm to the character. Thanks for your usual skill in sharing the story.

Thanks, Tony! That was a great Mystery story! Many thanks to your sponsor Mr Critchley!🙏🏼

Floyd Thursby name appeared in the Maltese Falcon with Bogart. lol.

"Dyspeptic," eh? It's such a shame that we English speakers have let most of our amazing vocabulary fall into obscurity.

Many thanks to you, Gavin, and many kudos to Tony! This is a wonderful story that, to me, balances between a cozy mystery and macabre true crime. So very brilliantly written and read. I am happy to say I have learned of a new writer to search out, thanks to this episode!

yes, thank you

Great voice, Also love your commentaries. ❤ Thanks!

Thank you so much as always Tony. I am quite a fan ofJohn Dickson Carr, I really appreciate his style of writing - and his ingenuity!

Thank you Gavin for supporting Tony so he can share these fascinating tales with us!

Excellent tale; excellent narration. Always good when Tony narrates. Thank you!

Tony, I'm enjoyin' your readin'.

Thank you Mr. Critchly for sponsoring this episode! I don't want to voice any spoilers, so I'll just say, I didn't see that coming. . .

There you are! I've been waiting for one of these, this weekend. Also, it's right in the genre of paranormal detective mystery that I love so much!

Satisfying tale wonderfully told. Author has pitched the tone somewhere between "Just William" and "Lord Peter Wimsey".👍😊

Your commentaries make these Classics seem fresh and new. I like that you actually read these stories and you're not using AI or LibriVox. Thank you for your hard work

Ngaio Marsh is my favorite of the 4 queens of mystery. I don’t know if she has short stories, but if sh does, i request it!🎉

A like and a subscription! Thank you!

Just adooooore Allingham. Many thanks for the narrator!

Agatha Christie

‘Candidate for a Coffin” is a thoroughly nasty story - brilliantly written and narrated. Thankyou

I had never heard of Carroll John Daly before - but I do like his writing! Thankyou. The flavour of the story makes me think of French underworld stories - of men who are so tough that they consider it beneath their dignity to be attached to women - where they can only admire another tough male.

Thank you - great authentic narration and Chandler is always worth reading/listening to.

Thanks for the lovely storytelling

Delicious!

Wow thanks Tony, that was excellent. I think the reader knows from the outset that he’s going to get rumbled otherwise there’d be no story. I think it was the journey to his getting rumbled that was so enjoyable. The more we see of him the more vile he is. I wasn’t sure if Edith was dead or not, but I was surprised and ultra chuffed that she’d outsmarted him so thoroughly. Allingham used Torbay’s narcissistic scorn and prejudice against women to blindside the reader and it really works, because we tend to see her the way Torbay describes her. I liked the use of the number three and all its echoes of fairytales and folklore too - a subtle nod to fables, morality tales etc. Ronald was so horrible there was a definite feel good element to the ending - not just that “dowdy middle aged “ Edith had escaped him but had so thoroughly outmanoeuvred him when he had such a high opinion of his intelligence and abilities. Sometimes I like a dark and sorrowful, even sinister ending, but this was perfect! Thanks again!

I enjoyed this ty

I love this! I’m so glad you have this channel. It’s my favorite place to go and listen on TH-cam

I like these double-features! :)

Look forward to the next story! and like the rest much enjoy Tony's narration and tone of voice; reading pace and hint of Scottish accent (if I'm not mistaken?). Not to speak about after stories - they're great. Not a huge fan of American English somehow... 🤷🙂