Paul Collins has 5 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is The Murder of the Century.
The Murder of the Century
Summary
In Long Island, a farmer found a duck pond turned red with blood. On the Lower East Side, two boys playing at a pier discovered a floating human torso wrapped tightly in oilcloth. Blueberry pickers near Harlem stumbled upon neatly severed limbs in an overgrown ditch. Clues to a horrifying crime were turning up all over New York, but the police were baffled: There were no witnesses, no motives, no suspects. The grisly finds that began on the afternoon of June 26, 1897, plunged detectives headlong into the era's most perplexing murder. Seized upon by battling media moguls Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, the case became a publicity circus. Re-creations of the murder were staged in Times Square, armed reporters lurked in the streets of Hell's Kitchen in pursuit of suspects, and an unlikely trio - an anxious cop, a cub reporter, and an eccentric professor - all raced to solve the crime. What emerged was a sensational love triangle and an even more sensational trial: an unprecedented capital case hinging on circumstantial evidence around a victim that the police couldn't identify with certainty - and that the defense claimed wasn't even dead. The Murder of the Century is a rollicking tale - a rich evocation of America during the Gilded Age and a colorful re-creation of the tabloid wars that have dominated media to this day.
©2011 Paul Collins (P)2011 AudioGo
Edgar Allan Poe
Summary
A view into the tumultuous and creative life of Edgar Allan Poe. Today the name Edgar Allan Poe invokes a tragic genius whose mastery of horror seems inexorably tied to his tormented life. But in his own time, Poe was above all a craftsman-an editor and reviewer desperately trying to earn a living by transmuting the wild ephemera of early Victorianism into innovations in science fiction, horror, and detective literature. Indeed, the crime thriller would not exist without Poe's sleuth Dupin, the deductive genius of "Murders in the Rue Morgue" and "The Purloined Letter." With brilliant scholarship and storytelling verve, Paul Collins delves into Poe's life and his professional world, from his stormy relationship with his rich adoptive father and interest in cryptograms to hits such as "The Raven" and flops like Eureka, his late-career crank literature outing. Edgar Allan Poe is an informative and supremely entertaining account of one of the most singular talents in American letters.
©2014 Paul Collins (P)2014 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.
Blood & Ivy
Summary
A delectable true-crime story of scandal and murder at America's most celebrated university On November 23, 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the city's richest men vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Boston's West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor - some leads put Parkman at sea or in Manhattan - but a Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion: that their ruthless benefactor had never even left the Medical School building. His shocking discovery engulfed America in one of its most infamous trials, The Commonwealth of Massachusetts vs. John White Webster, Harvard's professor of chemistry. A baffling case of red herrings, grave robbing, and dismemberment, it became a landmark in the use of medical forensics. Rich in characters and atmosphere, Blood & Ivy explores the fatal entanglement of new science and old money in one of America's greatest murder mysteries.
©2018 Paul Collins (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Duel with the Devil
Summary
In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic, its uncertain future contested by the two major political parties of the day: the well-moneyed Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the populist Republicans, led by Aaron Burr. The two finest lawyers in New York, Burr and Hamilton were bitter rivals both in and out of the courtroom, and as the next election approached - with Manhattan likely to be the swing district on which the presidency would hinge - their animosity reached a fever pitch. Until, that is, a beautiful young woman was found floating in Burr's newly constructed Manhattan Well. The accused killer, Levi Weeks, was the brother of an influential architect with ties to both men, and the crime quickly became the most sensational murder in the history of the young nation. With the entire city crying for Levi's head, the young man was in danger of being hastily condemned without a proper hearing. And so America's two greatest attorneys did the unthinkable - they teamed up.
©2013 Paul Collins (P)2013 AudioGO
Spanish Language for Beginners
Summary
Do you know the main reason people fail to learn a new language, even if they’re putting in a lot of time and effort? You may encounter many obstacles, but only one is so destructive that it can make you give up. The real obstacle is a book that takes things you don't know for granted. Many books, even those that claim they are for beginners, are actually not. They start with some things they assume you already know. Or, they go from an easy topic to a difficult one, without giving you the explanations and tools you need to take the correct approach. If you learn gradually, you will have fun and enjoy using what you have learned to talk to people or write. It is not that you cannot learn - it is that the method is wrong. Those who teach you are often more concerned about looking good than helping you learn the language. I created this book to spread my knowledge of Spanish so that you can learn it with ease, speed, and without headaches. If you want to learn the Spanish language without making the most serious mistakes, this book is definitely for you. With this book, you will learn: The main phrases for all situations The real method on how to study languages Those colloquial phrases and expressions that will make you feel cool How to think in Spanish (yes, that’s right - thinking in Spanish) Practical activities to learn while having fun Tips to learn naturally, even after you’ve completed this book Maybe you have already tried to learn a new language. If you have run into some difficulties, it’s likely the method was intended to make a good impression with native speakers. This book was written for beginning students. Even if you only know a few words and can say a few phrases, here you will find the knowledge at hand to bring you up to a solid level of speaking and writing. Whether you are a slow or fast learner, here you will find the right key to effortlessly open the door to the Spanish way. Click the "buy now" button, and connect to a world of additional opportunities.
©2020 Paul Collins (P)2020 Paul Collins