Publisher Description
Fourteen mysteries to test your inner sleuth! This collection includes The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain, narrated by Mauro Hantman; The Fenchurch Street Mystery by Baroness Orczy, narrated by Davina Porter; Problem of the Superfluous Finger by Jacques Futrelle, narrated by Stephen R. Thorne; The Blue Sequin by R. Austin Freeman, narrated by Simon Vance; An Intangible Clue by Anna Katharine Green, narrated by Angela Brazil; and The Oblong Box by Edgar Allan Poe, narrated by Mauro Hantman, among others. Newly recorded by premier narrators for this original anthology, the crimes, criminals, and sleuths depicted here set the standard for decades to come, and remain as entertaining today as they were when first published!
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About Mark Twain
Mark Twain, pseudonym of Samuel L. Clemens (1835–1910), was born in Florida, Missouri, and grew up in Hannibal on the west bank of the Mississippi River. He attended school briefly and then at age thirteen became a full-time apprentice to a local printer. When his older brother Orion established the Hannibal Journal, Samuel became a compositor for that paper and then, for a time, an itinerant printer. With a commission to write comic travel letters, he traveled down the Mississippi. Smitten with the riverboat life, he signed on as an apprentice to a steamboat pilot. After 1859, he became a licensed pilot, but two years later the Civil War put an end to the steam-boat traffic.
In 1861, he and his brother traveled to the Nevada Territory where Samuel became a writer for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, and there, on February 3, 1863, he signed a humorous account with the pseudonym Mark Twain. The name was a river man’s term for water “two fathoms deep” and thus just barely safe for navigation.
In 1870 Twain married and moved with his wife to Hartford, Connecticut. He became a highly successful lecturer in the United States and England, and he continued to write.