The Castlecourt Diamond Case

Name: The Castlecourt Diamond Case
Brand: Oasis Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Geraldine Bonner
ISBN: 9781645556619

Author: Geraldine Bonner

Series: Women of Mystery #2

Narrator: Aimee Lilly

Unabridged: 2 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Oasis Audio

Published: 11/08/2022

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

“The Castlecourt Diamond Case” is a lighthearted novella that becomes almost a
comedy of manners, a glimpse into early 20th century high society. Its subtitle is
“BEING A COMPILATION OF THE STATEMENTS MADE BY THE VARIOUS
PARTICIPANTS IN THIS CURIOUS CASE NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME,
GIVEN TO THE PUBLIC.” The story’s structure is simple: Six of the story’s
characters give their statements about the theft of the diamonds, and in each
statement a few more facts are revealed. See if you can figure out the truth
before the Marchioness tells all at the end!

About The Author

Not much is known about Geraldine Bonner. She was born in 1870 in New York. Her father, a journalist and historical writer, moved his family from Staten Island to the mining camps of Colorado when Geraldine was 10. Two years later they moved again, this time to San Francisco, where John Bonner became the editor of the San Francisco Argonaut. Geraldine started writing for the Argonaut at 17, and wrote her first novel, Hard Pan, in 1900. It was set in the boisterous mining camps of her youth, and she took the novel’s title as her pen name. Geraldine wrote short stories for Harper’s and Vogue, among other periodicals, as well as several novels.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jey on January 10, 2023

The Castlecourt Diamond Case by Geraldine Bonner is a novella published in 1906. The novella is set apart from its contemporaries by the unique narrative style. The Castlecourt Diamond belonging to the spendthrift Marchioness goes missing. Each character involved in the case narrate the story from t......more

Goodreads review by Lisa on July 11, 2023

A quick clever stolen diamonds mystery! Bonner worked in journalism and its easy to see the story set up if you know that. Each chapter is a different interview, so you get a little bit of the perspective as it goes along. I thought it was well written and a hidden gem of a mystery story.......more

Goodreads review by Mark on November 07, 2024

An interestingly formatted story structure. The mystery is not horribly deep but the manner in which the tale is presented is a bit unique and worth a spin.......more