The Secret Passage
Fergus Hume (1859-1932)
(*) Your listen progress will be continuously saved. Just bookmark and come back to this page and continue where you left off.
Genres
Summary
Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: “That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o’-lantern murder mysteries. It begins with a queer and rich old woman found stabbed to death in her chair and not a clue to the murderer. Then so many clues turn up that even the story-book detective is bewildered. Then nearly everybody turns out to be somebody else under an alias, and all the clues lead nowhere…”
Reviews
Jane Bowtell
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
It certainly had a lot of excitement about it but there are a great deal of improbable happenings and a lot crammed into the last two chapters which spoiled it a bit for me. Some of the readers made it difficult to concentrate, especially chapters 20-23, please make sure you can read clearly and in fluent English before you attempt to read these books.
ROLANDA
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
The constant changing of narrating voices has me abandoning this book in the middle. It's hard to follow when the voice constantly changes.
Tamela
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
This is a very good read. Majority of the readers are great. Very glad I stumbled across this book.
Tamela
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
This is a very good read. Majority of the readers are great. Very glad I stumbled across this book.
Tamela
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
This is a very good read. Majority of the readers are great. Very glad I stumbled across this book.
Bernie
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
A clever story but the quality of several of the readers leaves a lot to be desired and detracts from the story severely.
Andy
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
Good story though a little disturbed by the anti-Semetism Also the readers insistence on calling the character Basil using the American version of the herb I found grating, have they never seen Fawlty Towers?
Ardnut
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
- ★★
Great story, characters, and twists. Beware of the different voices for different chapters....especially chapter 17 voice. It took away from the flow of the story.
Related Literature
Paradise Lost
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Anthem
2 B R 0 2 B
The Man Who was Thursday
The Golden Age
Northanger Abbey
The Invisible Man
Last Days of Pompeii
English Fairy Tales
The Colors of Space
The Gods of Mars
The Wit and Humor of America
A Princess of Mars
Crime and Punishment
Candide
Around the World in Eighty Days
North and South
Songs of Innocence and Experience
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Black Beauty
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Love and Friendship
Siddhartha
Anne's House of Dreams
Related Fiction
Dead Men's Money
The Getting of Wisdom
The Anti-Federalist Papers
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
Silas Marner
The Time Machine
Scaramouche
The Water-Babies
The Land that Time Forgot
The Jungle Book
The Story of the Treasure Seekers
The Cosmic Computer
The Clue of the Twisted Candle
Tristan and Iseult
Women in Love
The First Men in the Moon
The Wisdom of Father Brown
Typee
Adam Bede
Tik-Tok of Oz
The Chessmen of Mars
Little Men
The Golden Goose Book
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Coffee Break Collection