Monday, May 10, 2021

The Siamese Twin Mystery

 

by Ellery Queen (read by Fred Sullivan)
An Ellery Queen mystery



Necessary roughage

The Queens, pere et fils, are returning from a vacation when a forest fire side-tracks them and traps them with a bunch of loonies -- one of whom is a murder. Well done for an Ellery Queen story. Creepy, too.

The downside, unfortunately, of this edition is the narrator. Whoever reads this book needs to have the overtones of a New Yorker, not of a TV announcer. This book is about two New Yorkers, it needs to sound New York. I blame it on the editors, not the narrator; they chose the wrong voice to begin with.

Three stars

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