The Cat's Paw
Natalie Sumner Lincoln
Read by James R. Hedrick
Susan Baird is found dead at her tea-table and all the evidence points to murder. She is supposed to have been penniless but when her will is found her niece Kitty inherits a fortune. Grave suspicion shifts from one person to another and the two suitors for Kitty's hand whom Washington society had watched with interest seem closely connected with the many clues which again and again prove worthless. Until the closing chapters unravel the mystery you suspect the most innocent people and the real murderer and his fiendish devices come as a shock. - Summary from "The Book Review Digest" 1923 (6 hr 47 min)
Chapters
Kitty! | 6:04 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
The Summons | 13:51 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Details | 24:08 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Suicide? | 22:41 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
At the Morgue | 13:47 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Testimony | 20:07 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Mrs. Parsons has Callers | 19:33 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
The Case of the Gila Monster | 29:19 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Mrs. Parsons Asks Questions | 15:33 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Rumors | 15:56 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
I. O. U. | 21:46 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
A Word of Warning | 20:16 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Bribery | 21:05 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
And Corruption | 25:01 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Bound in Red Tape | 17:25 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
A Startling Encounter | 10:39 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
"K. B." | 21:24 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Elusive Clues | 17:48 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Suspicion | 9:30 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
The Feet of the Furtive | 13:51 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Mouchette, The Seven-toed | 23:41 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Greed | 24:07 | Read by James R. Hedrick |
Reviews
GildedDrifter
The book is pretty bad, the characters are so obtuse you don’t even want them to succeed. But mostly the narrator’s use of offensive ethnic accents is INSANE. Who told this guy to read the Black characters already absurd dialogue as if he had a mouth full of marbles and learned English yesterday?! Offensive and totally uncalled for.
Tiresome and overwritten
Niki Daly
I listened up to chapter 11, then stopped the punishment. Convoluted crime story that just never seemed to show any sign of ending . Pity to waste such h a spirited reader on pure pap.
A surprising end
Linda Givler
This book is ok, not great. it's hard to keep all the characters straight with their interconnected backgrounds. The reader did a very nice job.