This is the unabridged audiobook version of the anthology of short mystery stories edited by Nancy Pickard on four cassette tapes.
The stories and narrators are:
His Tears by Marilyn Wallace
performed by Linda Hamilton
Sign of the Times by Nancy Pickard performed by D.B. Sweeney
Cast Your Fate To The Wind by Deborah Adams performed by Leslie
Mann
Fannie's Back Fence Caper by Susan & Bill Albert performed
by Susan Anspach
The Dying Light by Taylor McCafferty performed by Jean Smart
The Family Jewels by Dorothy Cannell performed by Juliet Mills
The Trouble With The Shoot by Camilla T Crespi performed by Brenda
Vaccaro
High Heels in the Headliner by Wendy Hornsby performed by Yancy
Butler
Cara's Turn by Marlys Millhiser performed by Jamie Farr
Gentle Reader by Sharyn McCrumb performed by Jean Smart
The story performed by Yancy Butler, Wendy Hornsby's High Heels in the Headliner, is an entertaining tale about Thea, a mystery writer, sick of churning out best-selling drivel and yearning to be the "hardest of the hard-boiled". By chance, she meets a police detective named Bostich while in a queue in a liquor store. His gritty street-wise attitude throws out all her notions for her own straight-laced fictional hero Lord Rimrock and gets her thinking about a new character she'll create - a tough cop based on Bostich. She becomes Bostich's lover and tags along with him to crime scenes and the like, all in the name of research to capture the essence of these events for her novel and give her the feel of it all...
Wendy Hornby's story is quite entertaining and humorous at times although I think YB's reading of it *really* adds to the humour (me, biased? No... ;)) Those of us who love YB's voice will be very pleased with the story as it allows her to explore different ranges and do different things with her voice (including a couple of accents and the task of letting the listener know which one of Thea's "voices" (narrator or writer), is speaking). All in all, the story is enjoyable and you get the added bonus of listening to YB for about 25 minutes :)
I haven't really been able to delve into the other stories except the first two - -
Marilyn Wallace's story narrated by Linda Hamilton is an intriguing story about Lisa, a woman who is at first curious and then more and more suspicious of her husband Alex's bouts of sentimentality -- he often bursts into tears at unexpected moments. Could it have anything to do with the death of a close friend all those years ago???
People who love Linda Hamilton's voice will also love this (remember the end of Terminator 2? "The unknown future rolls towards us...I face it for the first time with a sense of hope - because if a machine, a terminator, can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too..." *sigh*).
Nancy Pickard's Sign of the Times
performed by D.B. Sweeney (The Cutting Edge, Fire in the Sky) is a very entertaining
story with quite a novel twist :)
This is the unabridged audiobook version of the anthology of short mystery stories edited by Nancy Pickard on four cassette tapes.
The stories and narrators are:
Mister Smithereens by Ralph
McInerny performed by Robert Forster (Jackie Brown)
Dirty Dancing by Carole Nelson Douglas performed by Susan Anspach
Put out the Light by P. M. Carlson performed by Yancy Butler
Killer Fudge by Kathy Hogan Trocheck performed by Beverly Garland
Knife of the Party by Annette Meyers performed by Meredith Macrae
The Murder Game by Jean Hager performed by Jamie Farr
Waiting for Pixie by Mignon F. Ballard performed by Marcia Cross
Ashes to Ashes by Linda Grant performed by Gordon Thomson
Regrets Only by Rochelle Majer Krich performed by Mariska Hargitay
(Law & Order SVU)
More on Put out the Light one day in the (hopefully) near future :)
A couple of other anthology audiobooks that YB has worked on are:
We Could Do Worse: A Millenial
Collection of Alternate Histories (1999)
For the Good of the Firm: Legal Thrillers (1999)
If you're looking for copies of these,
trying amazon.com or they sometimes pop
up on auction sites like Yahoo!, eBay
or the auction section of amazon.com.
All of these titles are also available for download at audible.com
for considerably less than the price of purchasing the audiobooks. I haven't
used audible.com though, so I'm not sure about the quality of the sound files,
but if you're interested in getting these titles it seems like it might be a
worthwhile site to check out.
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