PS: Not to be critical, but I found the AI illustration extremely irritating-so I just didn't look at it. I prefer the work of REAL artists, to be perfectly honest... .
Many thanks to you, Gavin, and many kudos to Tony! This is a wonderful story that, to me, balances between a cozy mystery and macabre true crime. So very brilliantly written and read. I am happy to say I have learned of a new writer to search out, thanks to this episode!
The title grabbed me. The story is freaky, and gory, too. I listened to this around midnight as I waited for a batch of clothes in the dryer needed in the morning. What a horror story resulting from sheer greed. The narrator did a great job. A narrator whom can read the story well, so well that he, himself, is not the story is a real talent in audio books. Thank you!
Thank you so much Mr Critchley for helping Tony create these fabulous productions. I am so grateful. I was completely taken in by this one, and that's great. I have searched the corners of my brain to remember the name of an actor who spoke perfectly as you described and voice acted so well, and finally found him James Robertson Justice! (Have a listen online if you haven't heard of him). All the references to Victoria Adams and the Adams family repeatedly brought Posh Spice in a Morticia dress to mind though. (Oh Well...). Thank you Tony. Great listenin to you! 🏠
Oh my favorite, Carter Dickison stories were always favorites, thank you. I'm not sure why the pseudonym stories were so much better than John Dickson Carr's others but they absolutely were.
Dickson called them conspiritors twice in the first paragraph and he still got me. Your comparison to a stage magician is perfect because he didn't just foreshadow, he told us what was happening straight off then still got away with it.
Thank you Gavin AND thank you, Mr. Tony. Another excellent narration. Loved this story...had to chuckle at the end. Wondering if he was carrying her head. I've carried my fair share...one!! Decapitation in a major Motor Vehicle Crash (30yrs in the Fire Service). .
First, thanks Gavin for making this possible. I see the story pop up and I want to listen and know that Tony is going to waffle afterwards and am unsure if I want to listen to the waffle, then I do and smile and glad I did.
Great reading! I vaguely remember reading it in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine long, long ago, bought a big stack of em at some used book shop for practically nothing- and I picked up one of my favorite expressions from it - Lord love a duck 😜sort of my version of our Honest to Pete- one of those phrases when nothing else quite suffices, I suppose.. thanks all around for bringing it to audio, my eyesight won't let me read as voraciously as I used to, sometimes I feel like the character in the old twilight zone who finally has all the time in the world to read, and breaks his only pair of glasses 😱 Burgess Meredith 🥰 love as always!! 🫂💙
This story is written so well, like a carved rosewood box with a secret. At first, not being familiar with John Dixon Car, I thought they had a plot that entrapped H.M. and they did -- just not in the way I thought.
Thank Mr. Critchly you very much!! ❤️ I love this story. The start was so funny. The large man slipped on a banana peal like a Buggs Bunny cartoon. And fell hard on his bottom. Now it is out of joint. And he is swearing up a storm. As the narrator was explaining what happened, how did they get the body out of the house ? At that same moment, I was like "yeah how did they get the body out" .... "The 3 picnicking baskets!!"
Thank you for this very interesting and well performed story. When you spoke about dropping the g's, I've noticed that American military spokesmen on tv do the same thing.
Spooky story with quite a twist at the end 😊 excellent nareation, as always Tony, 👍 thank you so very much Mr Critchley for your patronage of this awesome channel / narrator
This was excellent! Thank you so much for your presentation and your commentary; you added so much perspective for me. I have just found your channel and I will visit it every night; it’s a peaceful place to visit before bedtime. Gratitude also to your sponsor who makes this possible. Good night and sweet dreams!
Wow, I can't believe this was written by an American! He sounds a little like P.G. Wodehouse in the expressions and the vernacular he uses, which is really funny some of it, even though this is a scary story too. Nicely read, Tony!! And thank you, too, to Mr. Critchly! Great choice!
13:51 - The first time through, I thought I missed something. There's a text break, like a new chapter, but the pause wasn't long enough for me to register it. The overuse of 'wench' was hard to take, but other than that a pretty good story. Not sure why the alternation was needed between Sir Henry and Gideon Fell - they're mostly the same character. Good reading, in any case.
Wow (yes, another Wow, by the American :P) Dickson Carr went to The Hill School in Pottstown! No kidding! That's a pretty prestigious college prep school in PA. The school actually sits on top of a huge hill so I don't know if it gets its name because of that or someone named Hill. Idk why I'm posting this, but since I'm familiar with the area, I thought I'd add that tidbit of info. Dickson Carr was no dummy!! I'm sure you probably have to take entrance exams or something like that to be accepted there. It's not just a regular public school or state run school, if you prefer.
This is the only Dickson Carr story I have enjoyed unreservedly - despite the complete impossibility of cutting up and disposing of a dead boy under Sir Henry’s very nose! The novels with their locked rooms are tedious beyond belief.
The dropped g was a habit of the horsey set in the Nineties . . . and an affectation of Peter Wimsey's, of course, twenty or thirty years afterward. The young people talked too much: Eve ought to have said she was "some sort of cousin", suggesting that she was only distantly connected with Vicky, and didn't have any strong feelings about her. Bill-the-Fiance ought either to have put up with being called "doctor", not revealing that he was in fact a surgeon (surgeons were usually styled Mister), or to have been introduced simply as Mr. Sage, and his profession left unspecified.
Tx Mr Critchley! BTW to the reader: the author's pen-name is not "Carter Dickinson" which you said at least 3x. I think one of JDC's good friends JB Priestley identified JDC's real genius -- not for locked-room plots -- which are mere mechanical tricks in my opinion but rather for creating MACABRE atmospheres. However I think he lost that talent and so fell back on the LRM bit.
So the young couple sat for hours waiting for HM but never noticed the banana peel on the step? And the whole story unfolds as a result? Given the exaggerated and detailed speech ( using “wench” frequently ), etc. This seems unlikely.
Priti Patel does that dropping of aitches in a posh way. It annoyed me whenever I heard her do it because it was so pretentious and out of date - the real reason was that I just disliked her! Thank you for the story Gavin! Beautifully read as usual Tony.
Thank you Mr. Critchly for sponsoring this episode! I don't want to voice any spoilers, so I'll just say, I didn't see that coming. . .
Thank you Mr. Critchly for sponsoring this episode!
Thank you Gavin for supporting Tony so he can share these fascinating tales with us!
Amazing narration. Thanks for this.
Thank you 🙏
Thank you, Mr. Gavin Critchley, for underwriting this delightful entertaining episode of Classic Detective Stories.
Thanks to the man who sponsored this. Great story, I was blindsided lol.
Appreciate this reading greatly. As a delivery driver, these stories are much needed "brain food" , " soul soup" 😊
You have a hard job !
This is an amazingly written short story, only 19 pages, Carter was fantastic.
Thank you so much as always Tony. I am quite a fan ofJohn Dickson Carr, I really appreciate his style of writing - and his ingenuity!
Thank you Mr Critchly for sponsoring the story !
Captivating tale enhanced, Tony, by your vivid narration and interesting commentary. Thanks to both of you, Tony and Gavin. Much appreciated!
PS: Not to be critical, but I found the AI illustration extremely irritating-so I just didn't look at it. I prefer the work of REAL artists, to be perfectly honest... .
Many thanks to you, Gavin, and many kudos to Tony!
This is a wonderful story that, to me, balances between a cozy mystery and macabre true crime.
So very brilliantly written and read.
I am happy to say I have learned of a new writer to search out, thanks to this episode!
Excellent. John Dickson Carr wrote the first 10 episodes of the radio show Suspense. They are my favorite episodes of the show.
I humbly thank the generous sponsor of this episode which was, as usual, masterfully narrated by Tony. ❤
A similar setting is Flight of a Witch by Ellis Peters.
I literally gasped at the end! Wow!
I've been waiting for years for someone to do an audio version of this story!!! Great Job!!!!
The title grabbed me. The story is freaky, and gory, too. I listened to this around midnight as I waited for a batch of clothes in the dryer needed in the morning. What a horror story resulting from sheer greed. The narrator did a great job. A narrator whom can read the story well, so well that he, himself, is not the story is a real talent in audio books. Thank you!
Thank you, Gavin Critchley, and to our esteemed narrator.
Thank you so much Mr Critchley for helping Tony create these fabulous productions. I am so grateful.
I was completely taken in by this one, and that's great.
I have searched the corners of my brain to remember the name of an actor who spoke perfectly as you described and voice acted so well, and finally found him
James Robertson Justice!
(Have a listen online if you haven't heard of him).
All the references to Victoria Adams and the Adams family repeatedly brought Posh Spice in a Morticia dress to mind though.
(Oh Well...).
Thank you Tony. Great listenin to you!
🏠
Excellent tale; excellent narration. Always good when Tony narrates. Thank you!
That was really a well written tale, kept me guessing until the end & I still didn't get it, until the end was revealed
Satisfying tale wonderfully told.
Author has pitched the tone somewhere between "Just William" and "Lord Peter Wimsey".👍😊
Excellent observation
Very nice short story. As others have mentioned.......I didn't see that coming!
I love you guys, keep up a great job, you enlighten, motivate, and entertain all at the same time!
Thank you Mr Critchley for this story, and Tony for the excellent narration. I love locked room mysteries, they are my favourite xx
There you are! I've been waiting for one of these, this weekend. Also, it's right in the genre of paranormal detective mystery that I love so much!
Oh my favorite, Carter Dickison stories were always favorites, thank you. I'm not sure why the pseudonym stories were so much better than John Dickson Carr's others but they absolutely were.
Thankyou Mr. Critchley
Thank you, dear Gavin, for making yet another marvelously read Classic Detective Story available to an appreciative audience! 🎉❤😊
Calm down
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Thank You Ever So Much Mr. Critchley for your sponsorship & support for Mr. Walker. ❤
Great Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Perfect Narration ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐❤️
Dickson called them conspiritors twice in the first paragraph and he still got me. Your comparison to a stage magician is perfect because he didn't just foreshadow, he told us what was happening straight off then still got away with it.
hank you Mr. Critchly for sponsoring this episode! Excellent story and narration and good sound quality. Thanks
Great tale, well told. Thanks Tony.
Thank you Gavin AND thank you, Mr. Tony. Another excellent narration. Loved this story...had to chuckle at the end. Wondering if he was carrying her head. I've carried my fair share...one!! Decapitation in a major Motor Vehicle Crash (30yrs in the Fire Service). .
First, thanks Gavin for making this possible. I see the story pop up and I want to listen and know that Tony is going to waffle afterwards and am unsure if I want to listen to the waffle, then I do and smile and glad I did.
Superb story. Great reading. My thanks to your sponsor.
Thanks to you for listening
Wow. I am impressed, totally didn’t see it coming. You have a lovely voice, thank you both!
Thank you! I’m very pleased to have found this channel!
Many thanks Mr Critchly , brilliant story ready brilliantly
Great reading! I vaguely remember reading it in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine long, long ago, bought a big stack of em at some used book shop for practically nothing- and I picked up one of my favorite expressions from it - Lord love a duck 😜sort of my version of our Honest to Pete- one of those phrases when nothing else quite suffices, I suppose.. thanks all around for bringing it to audio, my eyesight won't let me read as voraciously as I used to, sometimes I feel like the character in the old twilight zone who finally has all the time in the world to read, and breaks his only pair of glasses 😱 Burgess Meredith 🥰 love as always!! 🫂💙
Tony, I'm enjoyin' your readin'.
Ha!
Thank you Critchly for supporting this.
This story is written so well, like a carved rosewood box with a secret. At first, not being familiar with John Dixon Car, I thought they had a plot that entrapped H.M. and they did -- just not in the way I thought.
Thanks Gavin!
"Dyspeptic," eh? It's such a shame that we English speakers have let most of our amazing vocabulary fall into obscurity.
Because americans didn't find it cool to continue 😏
@@brokensymphony The rest of the anglosphere clearly didn't either.
A beautiful Greek word 🩵
It’s a good word! Love how it’s used here.
? What word?
Thank you Mr Critchley and Tony 😍😻
Thank Mr. Critchly you very much!! ❤️ I love this story. The start was so funny. The large man slipped on a banana peal like a Buggs Bunny cartoon. And fell hard on his bottom. Now it is out of joint. And he is swearing up a storm.
As the narrator was explaining what happened, how did they get the body out of the house ? At that same moment, I was like "yeah how did they get the body out" .... "The 3 picnicking baskets!!"
Superbly read, thank you!!
Thank you for this very interesting and well performed story. When you spoke about dropping the g's, I've noticed that American military spokesmen on tv do the same thing.
yes, thank you
Love your humor!
Thank you Gavin.😃
Thank you for this, and all the other stories you provide. The narration is terrific and the author/writing info is most interesting.
Love your ghost stories and am now so glad I've also found these fantastic detective stories - what a treat!
Thank you to Gavin for sponsoring!
Thank you. This is such a great story.. so enjoyed it.. love the chat afterwards too.. very informative ❤
I love John Dickson Carr's books. Thanks for the great story. Quite a surprise ending!
Marvellous Tony. What a treat on a Saturday Night! And a good long story. Aw WOW..
All interesting.Thank you Tony.
Thank you, Gavin!👍👍👍👍👍
Spooky story with quite a twist at the end 😊
excellent nareation, as always Tony, 👍
thank you so very much Mr Critchley for your patronage of this awesome channel / narrator
Outstanding narrator!
Enjoying the story..❤ i love mr tony sir❤
I love this channel. Great work! Subscribed 👍🏻
thank you 🙏
Excellent reading, as always. I wish I lived in the woods.
Thank you for the reading. Well done, as always.
This was excellent! Thank you so much for your presentation and your commentary; you added so much perspective for me. I have just found your channel and I will visit it every night; it’s a peaceful place to visit before bedtime. Gratitude also to your sponsor who makes this possible. Good night and sweet dreams!
Fabulous!!!
Predictable but excellent!!!!!
Thanks Gavin!
Very entertaining! Thank you.
This is the only place that I have heard “My Wench” in my 40 years
:)
I like Goblin Woods!
Wow, I can't believe this was written by an American! He sounds a little like P.G. Wodehouse in the expressions and the vernacular he uses, which is really funny some of it, even though this is a scary story too. Nicely read, Tony!! And thank you, too, to Mr. Critchly! Great choice!
Great story!
Your voice is smooth as butter. 😋
13:51 - The first time through, I thought I missed something. There's a text break, like a new chapter, but the pause wasn't long enough for me to register it. The overuse of 'wench' was hard to take, but other than that a pretty good story. Not sure why the alternation was needed between Sir Henry and Gideon Fell - they're mostly the same character. Good reading, in any case.
Good story. Thanks for sharing
Thank you.
Wowza..and they can't prove a thing!
Thanks for thag ! Modt unusual and enjoyed your lovely accent and the dialogue!
Wow (yes, another Wow, by the American :P) Dickson Carr went to The Hill School in Pottstown! No kidding! That's a pretty prestigious college prep school in PA. The school actually sits on top of a huge hill so I don't know if it gets its name because of that or someone named Hill. Idk why I'm posting this, but since I'm familiar with the area, I thought I'd add that tidbit of info. Dickson Carr was no dummy!! I'm sure you probably have to take entrance exams or something like that to be accepted there. It's not just a regular public school or state run school, if you prefer.
This is the only Dickson Carr story I have enjoyed unreservedly - despite the complete impossibility of cutting up and disposing of a dead boy under Sir Henry’s very nose! The novels with their locked rooms are tedious beyond belief.
You are the same guy who has the ghost stories channel too? Or am I going mad?
I am the same . You are not mad
Excellent. Many thanks to both the sponsor and the narrator
Flibty jibbet !😂😂
I always get mixed up with the Adams family and the Munsters!
Who is the narrator???. Cheers Rosemary Western Australia 73yrs
Tony Walker
@@classicdetective great narration 😁😁
thank you
The dropped g was a habit of the horsey set in the Nineties . . . and an affectation of Peter Wimsey's, of course, twenty or thirty years afterward.
The young people talked too much: Eve ought to have said she was "some sort of cousin", suggesting that she was only distantly connected with Vicky, and didn't have any strong feelings about her. Bill-the-Fiance ought either to have put up with being called "doctor", not revealing that he was in fact a surgeon (surgeons were usually styled Mister), or to have been introduced simply as Mr. Sage, and his profession left unspecified.
Thank you for this interesting information
UK with a US accent? Love it!
Thank you but I don’t know what you mean 😢
@@classicdetective The way you read the colloquialisms. Loved it - Thanks again.
Is Dickinson Carr related to Calibe Carr?
I don’t know . I haven’t heard of Calibe Carr. i used to work with Colleen Carr (I think she was a distant cousin)
neat
🎉
Tx Mr Critchley!
BTW to the reader: the author's pen-name is not "Carter Dickinson" which you said at least 3x.
I think one of JDC's good friends JB Priestley identified JDC's real genius
-- not for locked-room plots -- which are mere mechanical tricks in my opinion but rather for creating MACABRE atmospheres. However I think he lost that talent and so fell back on the LRM bit.
So the young couple sat for hours waiting for HM but never noticed the banana peel on the step? And the whole story unfolds as a result? Given the exaggerated and detailed speech ( using “wench” frequently ), etc. This seems unlikely.
Carter Dickdon or Dixon Carr ??????
it’s Carter Dickson or John Dickson Carr -
If you have access to good summer peaches, peach melba beats strawberry shortcake, imo.
They are both delicious.🍑🍽🍓
Priti Patel does that dropping of aitches in a posh way. It annoyed me whenever I heard her do it because it was so pretentious and out of date - the real reason was that I just disliked her!
Thank you for the story Gavin! Beautifully read as usual Tony.
I think I saw Charles Bukowski
I read his book On Drinking not long ago. It's the only thing I've read by him. Except, I did read some of his poetry too once.
Pall Mall ="Pal Mal" not "Paul Maul"
thanks for that
Who says? My family always pronounced it “Paul Maul”.
@@louk6196I love you. That’s what I heard and said when I lived in London and worked near Green Park
@@ClassicGhost 👍 We learned it from our grandfather who was a Londoner.
Depends on what class of person you are…
This wenxh has heard enough. Thumb down.
Bloody awful.