Great Mysteries Great Writers: Lucky Day & Trapped & Pastime & Snagged & Dealer's Choice [Abridged] [Audio Cassette]

Carol Higgins Clark (Author), Mary Higgins Clark (Author), Dean R. Koontz (Contributor)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1994

Features stories by Mary Higgins Clark, Dean Koontz, Sara Paretsky and others. 4 cassettes.

Editorial Reviews

From AudioFile

Five abridged mysteries written by five authors and read by five excellent actors comprise this audiobook. It would be difficult to find more diverse mysteries or more uneven abridgments. Pastime by Robert Parker fares the best, both as a story and an excellent abridgment, catching the essence of the novel but not leaving out too much of the color that is Parker's strength. On the other hand, Carol Higgins Clark's reading of her own Snagged has a cast of hundreds and an absurd, convoluted plotÐall of which cannot be attributed to the abridgment. Lucky Day by Mary Higgins Clark, performed by Betsy Palmer, is both well done and well-abridged. All in all, this audiobook has some strong and some weak entries, but excellent performances are achieved by all the narrators. S.F.W. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Dove Entertainment Inc; Abridged edition (June 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787100471
• ISBN-13: 978-0787100476
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,986,719 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #40 in Books > Books on Cassette > Authors, A-Z > ( C ) > Clark, Mary Higgins

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Readings of Excellent Stories!, August 17, 2000

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Cy Rolm (Pearleaf, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Great Mysteries Great Writers: Lucky Day & Trapped & Pastime & Snagged & Dealer's Choice (Audio Cassette)

I actually own the Audible.com copy of these books, and purchased it because I had heard the Audio Book of Lucky Day and wanted to hear it again and share it with others.

Lucky Day and Trapped are among the best of the 5 stories, as they are fairly short and keep you very interested the whole time. The longer features are also good however they are read by males with lower voices and were harder to hear because I was on an Airplane, so I did not listen to them as much.

Lucky Day has a very great climax and you will be shocked and amused as the narrator dramtically reveals the last few paragraphs.

Trapped is a less known Dean R. Koontz story, however it is a very good one, and is quite believable!

I share these treasures with my friends in my car, and long plane trips seem much shorter with this book! If you don't buy it, find someone who did because there is hours of entertainment you shouldn't miss!

5.0 out of 5 stars You will be on the edge of your seat . . ., January 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Great Mysteries Great Writers: Lucky Day & Trapped & Pastime & Snagged & Dealer's Choice (Audio Cassette)

This cassette is worth it just to hear "Lucky Day" by Mary Higgins Clark and "Trapped" by Dean Koontz. In fact, this cassette hooked me on Mary Higgins Clark. Both stories are full of suspense. You will be sitting on the seat of your chair trying to figure out in "Lucky Day" who killed the old man, why, and why the woman's husband is suddenly acting so strange. At the end, you experience the same shock the characters do and rethink your own relationship with the one you love and trust the most. In "Trapped," super intelligent lab rats escape and take on the task of of trapping the humans that created them before they themselves become trapped. When the rats blow up a farmhouse on their own accord, you begin to wonder if the rats have actually won.