The Secret Passage
Author(s): Fergus Hume
Genre(s): Detective Fiction
Narrators: Dawn Larsen, Shirley Anderson, Roger Melin, Hoosemon, Becca B, Redabrus, Janna
Number of Chapters: 26
Length: 9 hours and 10 minutes
Language: English
Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: "That painstakingly ingenious person, Fergus Hume, has devised another of his hide-and-seek, jack-o'-lantern murder mysteries. It begins with a queer and rich old woman found stabbed to death in her chair and not a clue to the murderer. Then so many clues turn up that even the story-book detective is bewildered. Then nearly everybody turns out to be somebody else under an alias, and all the clues lead nowhere..." (summary by Dawn Larsen and J.M. Smallheer)