COMPLETE - The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley by Louis Tracy - tg

[TriciaG]

Chapter 9:

11:24-12:25 - "A pleasant fiction...hints of coercion." repeated at 12:26-13:22.

[TriciaG]

And the rest are PL OK!

See, I shouldn't have posted my theory - it being totally off. But I can't imagine pulling a cord strung about 400 yards - getting the slack taken out and being able to fire at the right time. Ah, well.

[Kirsten Wever]

Your idea about the echo provides a far more interesting basis for a mystery. Really. FAR more interesting. Especially in view of the extremely tenuous string-pulling event.

BEGINNING OF SUMMARY

At the country estate of Mortimer Fenley, artist John Trenholme works at an oil painting of Sylvia, the financier’s beautiful ward. She has just emerged from the lake where she swims every morning. A sharp rifle shot shatters the pastoral calm, and Fenley lies dead at the mansion entrance, four hundred yards away.

Enter Scotland Yard, in the form of Scotland Yard’s Winter and Furneaux, nicknamed “The Big ‘un and The Little ‘un.” Winter, Chief Superintendent of the Criminal Investigation Depart, is big, burly and genial – certain to soothe the anxious and calm the excited. He methodically gathers, sorts and sifts the available evidence and examines the known facts for patterns that might suggest theories of the crime. This knowledge is the basis of deductive method by which he uncovers, in Tracy’s words, “the only sound conclusion from ascertained facts.”

Meanwhile, the diminutive and high-strung Detective Inspector Charles Furneaux uses his uncanny instincts and startling intuitions to unravel the mystery inductively. He talks to people, provoking emotional reactions, triggering tempers, seeking out sensitive spots. In this way he builds psychological profiles of the main characters. He uses this knowledge to guess how, under various circumstances, they would probably behave. His intuition then suggests how, in the actual conditions of the murder, they really did behave.

In less than 36 hours Winter and Furneaux unravel the mystery, a mild crush blooms into a full-fledged romance, real-estate changes hands, an earlier crime is solved, and more.

Summary by Kirsten Wever

END OF SUMMARY

Please vet the summary as you've been doing -- your comments have been very helpful.

I'm fixing the chapter 9 repeat next.

I'll see what I can do about key words, using your link. I'll have this wrapped up by tomorrow.

THANKS, MY DEAR!

[TriciaG]

Summary sounds good to me!

[Kirsten Wever]

KEY WORDS

Scotland Yard
Winter
Furneaux
Winter and Furneaux
Detective Inspector Furneaux
Chief Superintendent Winter
British mystery
English mystery
murder mystery
pre-war
pre-WWI

[Kirsten Wever]

Chapter 9 - fixed - in MW.

Go figure -- the piece that was repeated was the piece I re-recorded and pasted in, thinking I'd cut the Bunter-wheeze segment out. HOWEVER, I listened to both of these segments (as did you), and there was NO Bunter wheeze in either!?

[TriciaG]

New mystery: The Case of the Missing Bunter Wheeze.

New file that was uploaded has the same repeat, and shows for me as 42-minutes-something. Did you upload the wrong file by accident?

[Kirsten Wever]

Hm. I MUST have, but I didn't. Another mystery?

I'll try again.

[Kirsten Wever]

Does the server have a tummy ache? It's taking several minutes to upload my files.

(No answer needed -- this does happen.)

Now as to The Mystery of the Missing Bunter-Wheeze ...

I see it as another in the Dorothy Sayers series featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. It'll be a good collaboration for you. I mean us.

[Kirsten Wever]

okay -- 9 re-re-uploaded.

[TriciaG]

Spot PL OK!

Others have noticed a server slow-down. We're exploring the cause.

[TriciaG]

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/the-strange-case-of-mortimer-fenley-by-louis-tracy/