Audio Books : Mystery and Suspense : MP3/64Kbps : English

            All are unabridged and encoded from CDs at 64kbps MP3.



.............Robert Goddard is one of my favourite British mystery / thriller authors.


*   Closed Circle. (1993) [12 hours 33 mins]   Narrated by Bill Wallis.
The year is 1931. The new and luxurious transatlantic liner Empress of Britain is on her eastward passage. Among the first-class passengers on board are two English confidence tricksters, making a discreet exit from a little awkwardness they have left behind them in the United States. A chance meting on deck brings them a tempting new target in the shape of Miss Charnwood and her niece, the beautiful Diana, only child of the immensely wealthy Fabian Charnwood. It's a trick they've pulled before, with some success. Charm the daughter into an engagement to marry, then get the father to buy you off. So confident are they of success, in fact, that they make a pact: whichever of them wins Diana Charnwood's love will share his fortune with the other. Who would imagine that these smooth operators would let their hearts rule their heads? Or that violent death would find its way into their neat little scheme? Or that they would stumble into something much darker and deeper than either had suspected?

*   Caught in the Light. (1998) [11 hours 50 mins]   Narrated by Michael Kitchen.
On assignment photographing wintry Vienna, Ian Jarrett meets and falls in love with a Marian Esguard. In between horizontal engagements, the couple agree to start divorce proceedings against their spouses and meet in a few days at Lacock Abbey, the site of one of pioneer British photographer William Fox Talbot's best-known pictures. But although Ian tells his wife Faith and his teenaged daughter Amy about the new woman in his life, unburdening himself with a directness that bums his bridges, he waits in vain at Lacock. It's all been a mistake, Marian tells him in a tantalizing phone call; he'll never see her again, and mustn't look for her. Naturally, Ian immediately does exactly that, unearthing Daphne Sanger, a therapist who treated Marian for what amounts to delusions of possession. Eris Moberly, the woman Ian knew as Marian Esguard, has become convinced that she's the reincarnation of Marian Esguard (1787-1847), who may have invented photography 20 years ahead of Fox Talbot. As Ian peers deeper into Eris's unsettling echoes of Marian's life - complete with tyrannical husband, unhelpful relatives, importunate lover, and romantic intrigue of her own - he's drawn into a present-day mystery just as baffling. What became of the historic photographs of Marian's that Eris claimed to have gotten from old Milo Esguard? Why is Bath bookseller Montagu Quisdan-Neve so interested in the photographs? What does Eris have to fear from Milo's nephew Niall? It's all a setup, of course, as everyone but Ian and the most credulous readers will long since have realized. But precious few will figure out who's behind the intricate plot, which plays to the most exquisitely paranoid fantasies...

*   Dying to Tell. (2001) [11 hours 06 mins]   Narrated by Gerard Doyle.
Lance Bradley, idling his life away in the little Somerset town of Glastonbury, suddenly receives a call for help from the eccentric sister of his old friend Rupert Alder. Rupe appears to have vanished without trace. Reluctantly, Lance goes to London, to discover that Rupe's employers want him tried for fraud. A Japanese businessman claims he has stolen a document of huge importance. And a private detective is demanding money for trying to trace, on Rupe's behalf, an American called Townley, who was involved in a mysterious death at Wilderness Farm, near Glastonbury, back in 1963. No sooner has Lance decided that whatever Rupe was up to is too risky to get involved in than he finds that he already is involved, and the only way out is to get in deeper still. Where is Rupe? What is the document he has stolen? Who is Townley? And what happened at Wilderness Farm nearly thirty years before that holds the key to a secret more amazing than Lance Bradley could ever have imagined?


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