Ethel Lina White has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 1 ratings. The most-rated is The Spiral Staircase.
The Spiral Staircase
Summary
Four girls have been murdered. As darkness falls, the young maid Helen Capel feels distinctly uneasy, as though she is being watched, as she walks through the woods alone. News of yet another murder reaches the ears of the inhabitants, but this time close to their isolated family home on the Welsh border. Under the instruction of the Professor Warren, nobody may leave or enter the house that night. Just as the Professor finishes his announcement someone starts to knock loudly at the front door.... But is there really safety in numbers? And what happens when their numbers start to dwindle? Ethel Lina White was born in Abergavenny, Wales, in 1876. She wrote from an early age, progressing from essays and poems, on to short stories, and eventually left her government job in the Ministry of Pensions to pursue a full time career in writing. White became one of the best known crime writers of the 1930s and '40s thanks to a string of successful titles, the most famous of which were Some Must Watch (filmed as The Spiral Staircase) and The Wheel Spins (filmed as The Lady Vanishes, including a 1938 production by Alfred Hitchcock).
©2016 Fantom Publishing (P)2016 Spokenworld Audio & Ladbroke Audio Ltd/Fantom Publishing
Eine Dame verschwindet
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"The Lady Vanishes" erschien 1936 zunächst unter dem Titel "The Wheel Spins". Eine schöne Analogie, denn die Geschichte spielt nicht nur überwiegend in einem fahrenden Zug - auch die Protagonistin scheint ein bisschen durchgedreht zu sein: Iris, eine frivole junge Engländerin im Italienurlaub, erleidet am Rückreisetag am Bahnhof des glühend heißen Ferienorts einen Schwächeanfall. In letzter Minute landet sie in einem ebenfalls völlig überhitzen Abteil zwischen einer italienischen Familie, einer düsteren Baroness und Miss Froy, einer geschwätzigen Gouvernante, die sich um die immer noch schwache Iris kümmert, ihr aber bald auf die Nerven geht.
Doch als Iris nach einem tiefen Schlaf erwacht, ist Miss Froy nicht nur spurlos verschwunden, es scheint sie sogar nie gegeben zu haben - niemand will sich an sie erinnern. Phantasiert Iris als Folge des Sonnenstichs? Sich selbst nicht mehr sicher, beschließt sie der Sache auf den Grund zu gehen. Verständigungsschwierigkeiten und die unbarmherzige Hitze machen das Unterfangen nicht einfacher...
©1936 Heyne/Random House (P)2019 Goldbek Rekords
La scala a chiocciola
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Questa scrittrice britannica raggiunse la popolarità negli anni '30 e '40 come scrittrice di romanzi gialli. L'ambientazione di questo, in una casa isolata della campagna inglese, riporta al gusto dei classici thriller psicologici dell'epoca, di cui la Christie fu l'esponente più famosa. In questo volume, il cui secondo titolo era "Qualcuno deve vegliare", la suspence cresce di pagina in pagina, e nel corso del romanzo vengono seminati indizi per permettere al lettore di formare le proprie ipotesi, senza però che questo compito gli sia facile. L'opera fu adattata nel celebre film di Robert Siodmak, nel 1946. Cornice musicale di Kevin Mac Leod.
©2017 Silvia Cecchini (P)2017 Silvia Cecchini
Delitto al museo delle cere
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Questa signora del giallo, Ethel Lina White, che scrive thriller psicologici apparentemente tranquilli, fa crescere la storia a piccoli passi, portando il lettore attraverso colpi di scena successivi al culmine della suspence, e alla rivelazione dei punti oscuri, di cui peraltro ella stessa aveva fornito gli indizi. Il romanzo fu pubblicato nel 1935, e riscoperto dopo un lungo oblio nel 2015, proprio per i suoi toni noir appetibili ai lettori moderni.
©1930 public domain (P)2019 Silvia Cecchini
The Lady Vanishes
Summary
Iris Carr is tired and exhausted. Travelling by train from Switzerland to England she is surrounded by alien languages and situations which she finds difficult to comprehend. She is relieved therefore when talkative old English governess Miss Froy becomes her impromptu travelling companion. But when Iris wakes from a short sleep Miss Froy has vanished - and none of the passengers will acknowledge her existence. Is Iris mad? Or is there some more sinister reason for the woman's vanishing? Ethel Lina White was born in Abergavenny Wales in 1876. She wrote from an early age, progressing from essays and poems on to short stories. She eventually left her government job in the Ministry of Pensions to pursue a full time career in writing. White became one of the best known crime writers of the 1930s and '40s, thanks to a string of successful titles, the most famous of which were Some Must Watch (filmed as The Spiral Staircase) and The Wheel Spins (filmed as The Lady Vanishes, including a 1938 production by Alfred Hitchcock.)
©2016 Fantom Publishing (P)2016 Spokenworld Audio & Ladbroke Audio Ltd/Fantom Publishing