The House Without a Key (Version 2)


Read by ashleighjane

(4.3 stars; 12 reviews)

In this murder mystery, the main character is the victim’s nephew, a straitlaced young Bostonian bond trader, who came to the islands to try to convince his aunt Minerva, whose vacation has extended many months, to return to Boston and is entangled with the murder of a former member of Boston society who has lived in Hawaiʻi for several years. The nephew, John Quincy Winterslip, soon falls under the spell of the islands himself, meets an attractive young woman, breaks his engagement to his straitlaced Bostonian fiancee Agatha, and decides after the murder is solved to move to San Francisco. In the interval, he is introduced to many levels of Hawaiian society and is of some assistance to Detective Charlie Chan in solving the mystery. Summary by the reader
This book was originally read for Legamus.eu and was been transferred when USA copyrights allowed (8 hr 55 min)

Chapters

Kona Weather 29:13 Read by ashleighjane
The High Hat 11:39 Read by ashleighjane
Midnight on Russian Hill 26:42 Read by ashleighjane
A Friend of Tim’s 19:38 Read by ashleighjane
The Blood of the Winterslip’s 17:10 Read by ashleighjane
Beyond the Bamboo Curtain 13:12 Read by ashleighjane
Enter Charlie Chan 24:56 Read by ashleighjane
Steamer Day 22:26 Read by ashleighjane
At the Reef and Palm 24:07 Read by ashleighjane
A Newspaper Ripper in Anger 26:12 Read by ashleighjane
The Tree of Jewels 33:16 Read by ashleighjane
Tom Brade the Blackbirder 22:54 Read by ashleighjane
The Luggage in Room Nineteen 22:03 Read by ashleighjane
What Kaohla Carried 24:17 Read by ashleighjane
The Man From India 30:48 Read by ashleighjane
The Return of Captain Cope 24:25 Read by ashleighjane
Nightlife in Honolulu 17:59 Read by ashleighjane
“Good-by, Pete!” 32:25 Read by ashleighjane
A Cable From the Mainland 23:41 Read by ashleighjane
The Story of Lau Ho 22:03 Read by ashleighjane
The Stone Wall Crumbles 25:57 Read by ashleighjane
The Light Streams Through 29:45 Read by ashleighjane
Moonlight at the Crossroads 10:33 Read by ashleighjane

Reviews

entertaining story


(4 stars)

Reader was not bad, but her mangled pronunciation of Hawaiian place names rendered them unrecognizable. I groaned every time she read what must have been Waikiki. There were several others - Kauai and Oahu among them- that were just as bad. I appreciate the reader’s time and effort, but just a little more effort to learn how to say the Hawaiian names would make this a much more pleasant book to listen to.


(2 stars)

Not a bad story but I found the narrator difficult to listen to and her mispronunciation of words was too distracting