The Mayfair Mystery: 2835 Mayfair
Written by Frank Richardson
Narrated by Steven Crossley
4/5
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About this audiobook
The first in a new series of classic detective stories from the vaults of HarperCollins involves a disappearing corpse, a supernatural theory, and a genuinely shocking finale.
“The Detective Story Club”, launched by Collins in 1929, was a clearing house for the best and most ingenious crime stories of the age, chosen by a select committee of experts. Now, almost 90 years later, these books are the classics of the Golden Age, republished at last with the same popular cover designs that appealed to their original readers.
“This most entertaining detective story is concerned with an amazing crime. The body of a wealthy man is discovered by his valet. The valet hurried to a friend of the dead man to tell him of the tragedy. They return to find the body gone! The motive of the murder becomes a deeper mystery still, and no clue seems to lead anywhere. Little by little, however, evidence is built up round a theory, and clever detective work triumphs in the end. For ingenuity and dramatic situations “The Mayfair Mystery” is hard to beat.”
First published in 1907 as 2835 Mayfair, the book had caught the imagination of the reading public for its thrilling twists, its wit and imagination, and was chosen to be one of the first 12 classic books released by the Club.
Frank Richardson
Frank Collins Richardson was born in Paddington, Middlesex (as it was then) on 21 August 1870. Choosing subjects he knew, but with a comedic twist, his first, The King’s Counsel, was published by Chatto and Windus in 1902, and three more followed in 1903, all with a strong vein of satire and gratuitous references to whiskers. Widowed before he turned 40, his appetite for writing had all but dried up by the time he published a book of poetry, Shavings, in 1911.
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Reviews for The Mayfair Mystery
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Normally I am fan of golden age books but this failed to interest me. Far to much conversation between characters with no apparent connection to the plot. I gave up half way through even though the mystery attracted me the long verbatim conversations bored me. None of the characters particularly attracted me either they were all superficial in the extreme. I started to doubt it when a character went missing and was dismissed as of no importance due to the fact she was so plain! Only gave three stars because of the sardonic humour, I think this one should have been left in the vault, sorry.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not your run-of-the-mill, who-done-it mystery, but enjoyable for its sardonic, satirical humor. Would have rated higher but for the supernatural aspect.