Audiobook45 minutes
The Stolen White Elephant
Written by Mark Twain
Narrated by Cathy Dobson
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Calamity strikes when the precious gift of a white elephant from the King of Siam to the Queen of England is stolen in America. But it is the hilarious antics of the detectives trying to track down the beast which occupies us. As the rampaging elephant heads east, or maybe west, or possibly north or south, it leaves a trail of death and destruction. But it seems that not even the finest detectives in the land and offers of ever greater rewards can pinpoint the animal's whereabouts. Until finally it turns up in the least likely place of all...
Author
Mark Twain
Frederick Anderson, Lin Salamo, and Bernard L. Stein are members of the Mark Twain Project of The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Remarks on The Stolen White Elephant and Other Detective Stories (New York: Oxford University Press; 1996)When it came to writing detective fiction, Mark Twain was a failure. The only thing he got right about detectives is that they are like most other people: a lot of stupid, self-promoting frauds.In The Stolen White Elephant, Twain japes detectives themselves and goes beyond that to mock people who are fascinated by a mode of crime detection that Twain clearly regarded as a load of literary bull. More plainly: Flat-footed, criminally motivated law dogs get a whuppin' here. So do readers who believe in the genius of "scientific" crime detection à la Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle.Tom Sawyer, Detective and A Double Barreled Detective Story don't poke fun at readers so much as they hammer Holmes and Watson (in character as Tom and Huck) and Conan Doyle (in character as Holmes). Twain made his point effectively and delivered a few chuckles by the way.I won't call it genius. I won't call it crap. I will say that those who truly admire Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle should avoid this book if they don't want their fun ruined by seeing the author and his immortal protagonist stripped naked and flayed.Two stars for fair-to-middlin' crime-story parody; one for Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning; a fourth for The Great Revolution in Pitcairn. If that story isn't true, it ought to be.