Driving Lessons: Sounds Like Murder, Volume III

Penzler, Otto

ISBN 10: 0375402039 ISBN 13: 9780375402036

Publisher: Random House Audio, 1998

Synopsis

Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents
Sounds Like Murder
original, unabridged mysteries available on audio

1 cassette / 110 minutes
Unabridged
Read by Barbara Rosenblat

"This is old-fashioned story-telling at its best.  Interesting and involving tales from some of the masters of mysteries."
-Michael Connelly, author of Blood Work

When a student driver and her teacher hit and kill a woman crossing the street, it seems like a terrible accident.  But when blood tests show that the teacher was under the influence of a sedative, and the woman killed turns out to be the teachers wife, things get complicated.  An apparent accident turns into a crime, and Detective Karen Logan's discoveries hit a little too close to home.


Other titles in the SOUNDS LIKE MURDER series include:
The Case of the Scottish Tragedy by June Thompson
Clean American Fun by Christopher Newman
The Poster Boy by Stephen Solomita
The Sedgemoor Stranger by Peter Lovesey
A Tale About a Tiger by S.J. Rozan

About this title

About the Author

Ed McBain is one of the most illustrious names in crime fiction.  His 87th Precinct novel, Ice was selected by Newsweek as one of the ten best crime novels of all time.

About the Reader
Barbara Rosenblat created the roles of Mrs. Medlock in the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden.  She also reads Peter Lovesey's Sounds Like Murder mystery, The Sedgemoor Strangler, for Random House AudioBooks.

From the Back Cover

"What a great idea! Stories to drive by. I loved them."
-Robert B. Parker

" . . . the greatest audio book idea in a long time."
-Palm Beach Post

"Mystery buffs take heed: Six stories, written specifically for audio, mark the debut of an excellent collection of whodunits. These two-hour stories [are] unbeatable for short drives." --The New York Post

From the Inside Flap

Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents<br>Sounds Like Murder<br>original, unabridged mysteries available on audio</b><br><br>1 cassette / 110 minutes<br><b>Unabridged</b><br>Read by Barbara Rosenblat<br><br>"This is old-fashioned story-telling at its best.  Interesting and involving tales from some of the masters of mysteries."<br>-Michael Connelly, author of <i>Blood Work</i><br><br>When a student driver and her teacher hit and kill a woman crossing the street, it seems like a terrible accident.  But when blood tests show that the teacher was under the influence of a sedative, and the woman killed turns out to be the teachers wife, things get complicated.  An apparent accident turns into a crime, and Detective Karen Logan's discoveries hit a little too close to home.<br><br><br>Other titles in the SOUNDS LIKE MURDER series include:<br>The Case of the Scottish Tragedy by June Thompson<br>Clean Am

Reviews

Drivers fumbling with cassettes will certainly appreciate unabridged stories by the best mystery authors, excellently read, two hours long, on a single cassette. Selected and edited by Edgar Award-winner Otto Penzler, the first six of these adult stories (the others are June Thompson's The Case of the Scottish Tragedy, read by Simon Jones; Stephen Solomita's The Poster Boy, read by Jason Culp; and Peter Lovesey's The Sedgemoor Strangler, read by Barbara Rosenblatt) deal with real-life situations in mature language. In A Tale About a Tiger, excellently read by Patricia Kalember, PI Lydia Chin is asked to infiltrate the illegal trade in animal parts that supports some pharmaceutical concoctions used in traditional Chinese medicine. Listeners learn interesting bits about Chinese American culture, traditional Asian medicine, and the black market in illegal animal parts. Besides all that, it's amusing and reasonably suspenseful. Driving Lessons, read by Barbara Rosenblatt, is a police story that uses careful investigative work and interrogation by Detective Karen Logan to establish responsibility for a vehicular homicide. This tightly crafted story will hold the listener's interest throughout. Clean American Fun, excellently read by Darrell Larson, puts two secret service agents investigating a rape/murder near Branson, MO, in conflict with the county sheriff and the community. There are some sharp physical confrontations in a parking lot battle and some awfully good chase scenes for an audio, as well as some nice comments on the concepts of entertainment, religion, theme parks, and society. Overall, this series appears to fit an appealing niche between the sometimes choppy abridged work and the lengthy unabridged novel; highly recommended.?Cliff Glaviano, Bowling Green State Univ. Libs., Ohio Felix in the Underworld by John Mortimer 6 cassettes. unabridged. 61/2 hrs. Chivers Audiobks. 1998. ISBN 0-7540-0127-X. $54.95.F Narrator Martin Jarvis turns in a fine performance of this engaging tale of a man who must learn the hard way that life is for living. Poor Felix Morsom. Once a Booker Prize candidate, the low-key, cerebral author no longer receives rave reviews or garners large sales. In fact, the only frisson of excitement in his dull existence is a slowly developing relationship with his publicist. When Felix is slapped with a paternity suit from a woman he doesn't even know, he disputes the claim but finds himself a murder suspect when the man handling the claim is killed. Mortimer, better known for his popular "Rumpole" series (e.g., Rumpole and the Angel of Death, Audio Reviews, LJ 11/1/96), artfully lampoons the publishing business and the legal profession, while Jarvis skillfully differentiates among characters, making the most of the author's dry humor. Part detective-fiction, part psychological drama, this is recommended for public libraries.?Sister M. Anna Falbo, Villa Maria Coll. Lib., Buffalo, NY
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Edition details

• Publisher: Random House Audio
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375402039
• ISBN 13: 9780375402036
• Binding: Audio Cassette