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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2023

Written by: Amor Towles - editor, Otto Penzler - editor
Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright, Christina Delaine, Terrence Kidd
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Amor Towles selects the best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Andrew Child, Jeffrey Deaver, and T. C. Boyle.

Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, New York Times bestseller Amor Towles has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume. The volume also contains a "bonus story" selected from the bookshop's rare book room, featuring a look into the history of this illustrious genre.
©2023 The Mysterious Press; Foreword copyright 2023 by Otto Penzler; Introduction copyright 2023 by Cetology, Inc. (P)2023 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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Good stories but terrible stereotypical accents.

I'm a huge Amor Towles fan, so I looked forward to this series of mysteries, but when I started listening, I thought some of the stories were interesting, but the performances were ok, until they had to do an accent. Christina would do a really Monty Pythonesque Cockney which wasn't authentic at all, as well as the men doing RP and others.
As a dialect coach for film and television, I work with actors on dialects as well as performing them myself, and these actors needs some help. I'm sorry to sound harsh, but I expect professional level standards from Audible. I hope the directors and editors would have an accent coach have a listen to them or work with the actors ahead of time. Or find an actor who has that accent or can do it authentically.
If you don't mind that, the stories are interesting, though some are a bit dated.

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