The Fourth Postman, Craig Rice
The Fourth Postman, Craig Rice
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The Fourth Postman

Author: Craig Rice

Narrator: Johnny Heller

Unabridged: 5 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/12/2020


Synopsis

One postman! Two postmen! Three postmen! All murdered!John J. Malone sticks his nose into the case of the dead postmen and picks up a crack on the head, an Australian beer hound, and six redheaded twins. It all begins when he takes on a new client, Rodney Fairfaxx. Rodney was tabbed for the postmen murders because he hadn’t received a letter from a dead girl for more than thirty years. Malone doesn’t think that this is enough reason to kill, but he can’t prove it.

About Craig Rice

Craig Rice (1908–1957), born Georgiana Ann Randolph Craig, was an American author of mystery novels and short stories, sometimes described as the “Dorothy Parker of detective fiction.” She was the first mystery writer to appear on the cover of Time magazine, on January 28, 1946.

About Johnny Heller

Johnny Heller, winner of numerous Earphones and Audie Awards, was named a “Golden Voice” by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has been a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award winner from 2008 through 2013 and he has been named a top voice of 2008 and 2009 and selected as one of the Top 50 Narrators of the Twentieth Century by AudioFile magazine.


Reviews

The Best Of The Malone Series So Far I’m reading Craig Rice’s John J. Malone series in order, and for me this is the best one so far. The mystery is both clever and entertaining, the supporting characters are fun and interesting, ant the writing is, as always, top notch. The regular cast of Malone an......more

Some mysteries open with a murdered body and some make us wait a bit while the author sets the scene and introduces the characters. Sometimes there's a second or third murder later in the book, just to keep the reader's attention. Agatha Christie was a big believer in the "Bring on another body" sch......more

Goodreads review by Sanjay

She is the best It was the last one of John Malone Mystery - I have read them all now and I am going to restart from the beginning again. There is not only no one like her in the annals of mystery writing, there is no one even remotely like her.......more