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Topper: A Ghostly Adventure Audiobook, by Thorne Smith Play Audiobook Sample

Topper: A Ghostly Adventure Audiobook

Topper: A Ghostly Adventure Audiobook, by Thorne Smith Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: John Rayburn Publisher: John D. Rayburn Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.13 hours at 2.0x Speed Series: The Topper Series Release Date: June 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9798212186551

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

21

Longest Chapter Length:

43:43 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

06:29 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

23:31 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

Here is a meeting with George and Marion Kerby, a couple of free-wheeling ghosts, who meet up with respectable banker Cosmo Topper. This was noted by the New York Times, claiming:

Thorne Smith created the modern American ghost story, ghosts with style and wit; ghosts that haunt us still.”

Others pointed out, “Smith was a master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee.”

The overall mood has a touch of silliness, but it provides lighthearted reading and listening, a matter of nonsensical escapism. For Topper it meant relief from a nagging wife with ongoing indigestion.

Smith himself was a heavy drinker and died of a heart attack at a youthful forty-two. Once, after an unexplained week-long disappearance, he was asked why he hadn’t called in sick. He replied, “The telephone was in the hall and there was a draft.”

Shall we listen to the escapades? Well, why not?

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“[Thorne Smith] created the modern American ghost. A ghost with style and wit.”

— New York Times

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About Thorne Smith

Thorne Smith, a master of urbane wit and sophisticated repartee, was the author of nine novels, including The Night Life of the Gods, Topper Takes a Trip, and The Stray Lamb. He was born in Annapolis, Maryland, in 1892 and died in 1934.

About John Rayburn

John Rayburn (1927–2024) was a veteran of sixty-two years in broadcasting. He served as a news and sports anchor and show host, and his television newscast achieved the largest share-of-audience figures of any major-market television newscast in the nation. He was a member of the Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame. His network credits include reports and/or appearances on The Today Show, Huntley-Brinkley News, Walter Cronkite News, NBC Monitor, NBC News on the Hour, and others. He recorded dozens of books for the National Library Service and narrated innumerable radio and television recordings.