Murder at Pentecost by Dorothy L Sayers
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- Опубликовано: 14 янв 2025
- Whose hand strikes the fatal blow?
Within the ancient walls of Pentecost College a murder shatters the scholarly peace. Montague Egg, a sharp-eyed wine salesman, steps into a web of whispered secrets and hidden motives.
Confusion looms large as confessions echo through the halls, and lies mask truths yet to be uncovered.
Join us as we navigate a world where appearances deceive and academic knowledge conceal as much as it reveals.
Listen closely and perhaps you can work out who the murderer is before Egg does!
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Love this! American here… but I thrive on British crime stories…
Your narration is absolutely perfect!
American crime stories are fine as long as you are the narrator… 😊
Thrilled to have found your channel!!!
I love Monty's rhymes! Just the fact that he makes them. His short stories are perfect length for you aren't they.
Thanks as always Tony. Hidden from the storm 😊
Thank you Tony. Specialists are people who learn more and more about less and less, until eventually they know everything about nothing. I read that, somewhere.
😂🤣🤣
There’s also the phrase ‘Jack of all trades, master of none’.
So true😊.
Beware confirmation bias.
I suggest checking out "The Death of Expertise" by Tom Nichols.
Experts are certainly fallible, but much less so than the general population and especially charlatans.
Perhaps worst of all, there are some who plausibly claim to be experts, but are not, or are experts in an unrelated field: like heart surgeons claiming expertise in infectious diseases.
I wonder if Ms. Sayers idly picked up a salesman's handbook, started reading, then thought, "I could write a character around this."
The first Egg story I've encountered. Lovely reading, as always, Mr. Walker.
Please give my regards to your hounds.
One can never have too many Oxford stories.
Or too many hounds!
There's a collection you can get on audio called "in the teeth of the evidence".
The main story, about a dead dentist, is great. It then goes on to Egg short stories. Really excellent.
Tony, I've told you over and over that you can read the American stories, we Yanks love it.
Your Chicago accent is by far the best, you may wish to steer clear of the various Southern accents.
Thank you! I would love to hear you read more from Dorothy L Sayers
Perfect for a busy Sunday morning. Thankyou Tony.
Much to do here now Silly Season has begun.
Guests need feeding,
Floors need cleaning,
Gardens need weeding,
Nights receding.
A perfect, charming, story and crack. I always like to hear about Jasper, Ruby and Callie, (is that a Blake's 7 ref' name?).
Have a lovely Sunday yourself.
@@JohnGleeson-cx5lg BLAKE'S 7 had a character called Callie. I believe she's asking if the dog was named for the character.
Excellent narration! Yes, I would love to hear any Raymond Chandler you've got.
Excellent, Tony! Enjoyed the story. Especially enjoyed the end waffle. Woof to Ruby and puppy rubs. Thank you!
Ruby is a bold dog (in the Irish sense of bold)
Ah! Weekend Tony Walker episodes are my favorites 🎉
Very enjoyable, thank you very much👍🥂
Thank you for another great reading. Your timing was uncanny because I have Dorothy Sayer's story, The Professor's Manuscript (another Mr. Egg story), at the ready for a re-read. I thought if it's as good as I remember, I'd send a little note your way. . . Your stories have brought me hours of delight. Thank you very much.
Wonderful!
i’m sitting here this morning putting off getting up and taking the dogs for a walk . But I’m enjoying reading the comments.
Delightful presentation. Thank you.
Tony ( trust you won't object to the informality, not having met previously), you are a most engaging host! I have listened before, but your post-reading performance simply captured me this evening. I subscribed just now sheerly on the basis of your personality, although I agree that the story was fun!
Thank Josie ! (if I may)
Another wonderful dramatization and good story. Thank you❤
I would really apreciate if you would read more books with this Mr Egg 😊 . He has some fun adventures 😅 .
I loved your post story chat good sir. I will look out for more of your output !
Thanks, Tony, loving this in the USA
Fun! Subscribed and liked! First Sayers Egg story I’ve heard. Thanks bro! ❤ from USA.
Thank you ! that was very relaxing to listen to, I think that crime detective stories are my favorite type, I finished a year ago all the stories and novels of Sherlock Holmes, and now I'm looking for something similar.
Beautifully performed! Far better than the best of AI readers. Thank you.
This was fun. Thanks so much. Go ahead…read some hard boiled stories. Love them too.
When I read this story myself, DLS's little joke in the College name passed me by - Pentecost College is definitely, definitely not Trinity College, which is located on The Broad. (Trinity Sunday, in the Church calendar, takes place the week after Pentecost, or Whitsun as it was known).
DLS was an Oxford scholar herself. She translated Dante's 'Divine Comedy' into English, using the same, complex rhyme scheme as Dante's.
[Edited for floating comma, but might have introduced another].
I didn’t get the Pentecost reference so thank you 🙏
Ah ! Nobody does cozy English exceptionalism as Dorothy L. Sayers does. Montague Egg. I mean ...;)
Lol....quite
Ta, Tony. I almost enjoy your post reading wrap up more than the story. 🙏
Thank you ☘️
Thank you sir 😊❤
Love your accent and voice, and that you're not AI, haha. Your postscripts are always interesting. Is there anything significant in Montague Egg's name?
Thank you! Your reading popped up on my RUclips feed out of no where. It was great hearing a Dorothy Sayers piece. Are you interested in reading stories by Dashiell Hammett?
Luvven the droppin of the gees😅
Nod to you, Tony. Scratch for the dogs
I like dorothy l sayers i have read many of her books!
We want the American detective stories, too, but we want YOU to read them. The others were fine (most of them), but we want you. Reading them in your own voice is fine by me.
Initialize reaction, im getting Name of the Rose vibes, 😇 🗡️
You should definitely record American stories, along with good material from other languages!
but I’m gonna get an American to do it
Quite refreshing to hear the common man Mr Egg. Wimsey is a bit of a caricature. Detective fiction is a great way into the English class system of yore. That and an extensive- and punctual - railway system without which half the stories don't work!
absolutely true about the railways
Aw, go ahead and do the American stories, Tony. It'll give me - an American in Orkney - a chance to giggle at your accent. (And also, I enjoy the stories.)
Great reading as usual. Do you have contact information for those of us that may have questions for you?
classicghostpodcast@gmail.com
great
Was he mad or did he plan this in advance? Why not both?
Could be both
Scum! (The film not the story!). I love college stories, thank you for sharing this one with us.
That’s it! Exactly what a horrible but compelling film
SCUM- is the name of the Ray Winstone film Tony,it is a cult classic in Britain,"yeah well,carry on" as Ray (Carter)says as he "borrows" the snooker balls.
yes!
Was the dropping of the g a niche upper crust affectation? I’ve wondered for a while, and I figure you might be the one to ask! (Because you’re knowledgeable, not because you might be one to take on affectations!)
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But where is the story. 😢😢😢
Can you give the author?
Dorothy L Sayers
It's all over the place in Mr. Walker's post-story commentary.
And thanks for not pronouncing it eri-yoo-dite!
Swiss bosons in a December rain? Can't help but smile at that. And you surely can read "American" stories. We're suckers for a British accent. No guest readers required. ... or is it "English" accent? Oops - bozons. My bad.
yeah, there is no such thing as a British accent. The British accent has referred to by Americans actually means the received pronunciation version of the English accent. But it doesn’t really matter.
That’s it? There didn’t seem to be a real ending, just some speculation.
Can you do a story that doesn't include posh lads?😂
I know you don't consider yourself posh but you've certainly got the manner of speech down pat. Sometimes i can't tell the characters apart but still enjoy your work
yeah, most of the detective stories from the golden age were written posh. I get more leeway on the Ghost stories to be myself particularly the more modern ones or ones written by LTC Rolt.
that’s an excellent point, actually in the days before celebrities we had aristocrats.