The Secret Passage

Written by Fergus Hume

Narrated by LibriVox Community

Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NYT Saturday Review of Books described this audiobook as follows: "That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o'-lantern murder mysteries.

It begins with a queer and rich old woman found stabbed to death in her chair and not a clue to the murderer. Then so many clues turn up that even the story-book detective is bewildered. Then nearly everybody turns out to be somebody else under an alias, and all the clues lead nowhere..."

Summary by Dawn Larsen and J.M. Smallheer

• Language: English
• Publisher: LibriVox
• Release date: Aug 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781094250137

Fergus Hume

Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English writer and critic, best known for his innovation in the biographical genre. After starting his career by writing reviews and critical articles for periodicals, Strachey reached his first great success and crowning achievement with the publication of Eminent Victorians, which defied the conventional standards of biographical work. Strachey was a founding member of the Bloomsburg Group, a club of English artists, writers, intellectuals and philosophers. Growing very close to some of the members, Strachey participated in an open three-way relationship with Dora Carrington, a painter, and Ralph Partridge. Stachey published a total of fourteen major works, eight of which were publish posthumously.

Reviews for The Secret Passage

[Karol Hawk Conine · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The story was a good one, albeit a bit hard to follow. It would have been much more enjoyable without so many readers. The Asian lady was very hard to listen to!

[cindy may · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This story has many twists and turns. I found it difficult to stay with.

[Hugh Good · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Good story but poorly read. There were many mispronounced words!!

[Hillary Whonder-Genus · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The plot and storyline is really good. Narrators not so much. Using multiple narrators was challenging to keep on track with the storyline.

[Jan Kostielney · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Great characters, perfect depth of ambience-wish it were longer!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[Joy Oaks · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Good story; the styles and pronunciations of the readers varied a lot and made it difficult to follow the story.

[Caroline Gold · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This was an interesting mystery with very odd people acting very strangely.

[Marie Friederichs · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Terrible narration. Not worth the effort. I stopped after a short time.