The Murders in the Rue Morgue

good story well read

(5 stars)

Richard in Alabama

Good job reading by Renard. Not Poe's best story by any stretch, but a good story, and important as the first locked-room mystery. Later authors wrote better locked room mysteries (much better, in fact), but this one is good, too, though short. Worth hearing for its historic importance to the genre, too.

Excellent Reader and a Creative Murder

(5 stars)

Bobby P.

Poe is superb in his storytelling... twisted and weird, but well done. I can see why Dupin earned the ire and disdain of Sherlock Holmes. Dupin's reasoning is nearly fantastical and on the surface not as logical as Holmes'.

Spoilers, much?

(3 stars)

Dave Doyle

The quality of the reading was so-so, with little emphasis and occasional mistakes, but what really spoils things is the fact that the culprit is pictured on the thumbnail...

(4 stars)

Naesmile

Excellent reading by Reynard T. Fox. Decidedly weird murder mystery with an unbelievable culprit. However, I’m certain the original audience was duly horrified by the sensational aspects of the crime.

the murders of rue morgue

(4.5 stars)

adam leGros

I love this audio while going to sleep...the voices are very soothing.

(4 stars)

A LibriVox Listener

great audio narration! the story was just ok, not as good as some of Poe's others

Free Audio, Review

(3 stars)

FNH

Hmmmmm... Despite this short story being read by one of my favourite Librivox readers I was still disapointed. The first half of the first chapter/section is a rather long and slow lead up to introducting the investigative character. Frankly I was about to give up on the story as being too boring, when the story started. I'm a Sherlock Holmes fan so the idea of listening to the first "Locked Room Mystery" appealed to me. However towards the end of the story as the clues started to fit together and the who and the how became clear I was disapointed. I am glad I listened to it, because of its vintage and standing, and the reader is an absolute delight on the ears. Shame about the story! Reading 3/3 Production 2/3 Story 1/3 Total Score 6/9 For more of my review of Free Audio visit http://FreeAudioReview.BlogSpot.com

Good recording

(4 stars)

Pauliina Tulenheimo

Thank you for reading this! The narration was excellent and earns an extra star to the review in general. I must admit, while it was interesting to see the origins of the now familiar patterns of a detective story, the case itself was thoroughly disappointing. The story feels more of a writing exercise in such casework than anything with actualized characters or any psychology, which, to be fair, wasn't in style at the time in today's extent. In any case, I'm happy to have listened to it and ticked it off my list.