Audio Editions.Audio Editions Auburn, CA 95604 www.audiopartners.com John Mortimer's RUMPLE AND THE PENGE BUNGALOW MURDERS (1572704748, $27.95) enjoys an excellent performance by Bill Wallis, who has worked on more than 200 radio productions and plays, and who brings this latest Rumpole barrister drama to life. Here Rumpole faces the case which introduced him to his wife-to-be 'She Who Must Be Obeyed', when as a young defense lawyer he defends a young man accused of shooting his father. Two more excellent Agatha Christie murder mysteries mysteries, in Greek and Roman religion, some important secret cults. The conventional religions of both Greeks and Romans were alike in consisting principally of propitiation and prayers for the good of the city-state, the tribe, or the family, and only secondarily of the person. Individuals sought a more emotional religion that would fulfill their desires for personal salvation and immortality. add to and enhance the Christie routines. PIROT'S EARLY CASES (1572704721, $31.95) enjoys a co-reading by David Suchet and Hugh Fraser as it presents 18 complete Hercule Poirot mysteries. Each short story provides a classic Christie mystery case reflecting the early days of Poirot's crime-solving expertise. Christie's Christie's, English firm of art auctioneers and appraisers, one of the largest clearinghouses in the world for art objects of all kinds. Founded in 1766 by James Christie, it has locations all over the world. BibliographySee M. C. Marillier, Christie's, 1766–1925 (1926); D. Sutton, Christie's since the War, 1945–1958 (1959). PARTNERS IN CRIME (1572704713, $29.95) receives James Warwick's smooth and dramatic style as it presents a Tommy & Tuppence mystery revolving around the two's involvement in an international detective agency. Amateur private detective Tommy's impersonations of great detectives' methods helps him breeze through cases in this excellent set of mysteries. |
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