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The Big Bow Mystery

Israel Zangwill
 (1864 - 1926)

It's a cold and foggy night in London. A man is horribly murdered in his bedroom, the door locked and bolted on the inside. Scotland Yard is stumped. Yet the seemingly unsolvable case has, as Inspector Grodman says, "one sublimely simple solution" that is revealed in a final chapter full of revelations and a shocking denouement. Detective fiction aficionados will be happy to learn that all the evidence to solve the case is provided. One of the earliest “locked room” mystery stories, The Big Bow Mystery is also a satire of late Victorian society.

Read by Adrian Praetzellis

Run Time 5 Hours 5 Minutes x 5 Audio CDs

Section ---chapter ---run time
1 Chap 01 - 22:41
2 Chap 02 - 22:07
3 Chap 03 - 24:15
4 Chap 04 - 20:28
5 Chap 05 - 26:04
6 Chap 06 - 26:13
7 Chap 07 - 23:52
8 Chap 08 - 23:35
9 Chap 09 - 12:56
10 Chap 10 - 46:59
11 Chap 11 - 20:03
12 Chap 12 - 36:22
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