Tag: Steven Crossley

Trent’s Last Case

Trent’s Last Case

by E. C. Bentley (Nelson, 1913); audiobook read by Steven Crossley (HarperCollins, 2017)

Book cover: Trent's Last Case, by E. C. Bentley

A cultivated, rather loquacious narrative, pleasant enough to read and certainly ingenious, though Trent is cloyingly self-absorbed and everything rests upon a glossed-over mis-assignation of the time of death. (The motivation for removing Manderson’s false teeth also bears up poorly under scrutiny.)

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde (Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, 1890); audiobook read by Steven Crossley (W F Howes, 2012)

Wilde_Dorian Gray

The story is justly famous and the epigrams easy to quote, yet the overall reading experience is rendered wearisome by Wilde’s tacked-on (and continuously hammered home) cod philosophy. The character of Sir Henry presumably inspired that of The Sphinx in Mystery Men.

 

 

Derelict Space Sheep