This collection of abridged books follows the theme of classic Crime titles. The titles in this collection are The Moonstone performed by Steven Pacey and The Hound of the Baskervilles performed by Peter Egan. Finishing with The Thirty Nine Steps performed by James Fox.
Interweaving real and fictional elements, The American Boy is a major new literary historical crime novel in the tradition of An Instance of the Fingerpost and Possession. England 1819: Thomas Shield, a new master at a school just outside London, is tutor to a young American boy and the boy’s sensitive best friend, Charles Frant. Drawn to Frant’s beautiful, unhappy mother, Thomas becomes caught up in her family’s...