Phoebe Reads a Mystery

24/12/2024

Today, Phoebe reads "Twas the Night Before Christmas" by Clement C. Moore. https://buff.ly/3NSf3IU

08/11/2024

In 1910, Baroness Orczy wrote Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, about a woman detective solving mysterious crimes. It was several years after she wrote her play The Scarlet Pimpernel. "The great success of this play... has rather an irritating effect upon the author," one reporter wrote. "She is always being told that she can never equal [it]. She thinks she has not only equaled but surpassed it." Phoebe reads Lady Molly of Scotland Yard: https://buff.ly/3NSf3IU

05/11/2024

"The Chief sent for Lady Molly. No doubt he began to feel that here, too, was a case where feminine tact and my lady’s own marvellous intuition might prove more useful than the more approved methods of the sterner s*x." https://buff.ly/3NSf3IU

29/10/2024

Phoebe reads Lady Molly of Scotland Yard. New chapters out every day: https://buff.ly/3NSf3IU

28/10/2024

"Some say she is the daughter of a duke, others that she was born in the gutter." Lady Molly of Scotland Yard starts today! Sign up for Criminal Plus to listen ad-free: https://buff.ly/3JsB94A

24/10/2024

24/12/2023

It's a holiday tradition! Listen to Phoebe reading Twas the Night Before Christmas, in your podcast feeds now. https://buff.ly/3NSf3IU

06/11/2023

All chapters of The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde, are in our feed now. https://buff.ly/3DDqhxa

03/11/2023

Nicholas Frankel on Oscar Wilde: “The Picture of Dorian Gray was the work that made him an iconic figure, in the eyes of both his supporters and his detractors, and that would later play a part in his downfall when it was used as evidence against him in court.” New chapter today. https://buff.ly/3DDqhxa

31/10/2023

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.” Happy Halloween! Phoebe reads Chapter 15 of The Picture of Dorian Gray today. https://buff.ly/3DDqhxa

28/10/2023

Many British critics took offense to the homoeroticism in the first edition of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. One major bookseller pulled every copy of the magazine it was published in from its shelves in railroad stations. https://buff.ly/3DDqhxa

25/10/2023

Ivan Albright was commissioned to paint The Picture of Dorian Gray for the 1945 film adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s novel. The movie was black and white – except for the portrait, which they showed in Technicolor. New chapter in your feed today. https://buff.ly/3DDqhxa

22/10/2023

Oscar Wilde once wrote in a letter that The Picture of Dorian Gray “contains much of me in it — Basil Hallward is what I think I am; Lord Henry, what the world thinks me; Dorian is what I would like to be — in other ages, perhaps.” Chapter 7 out today. https://buff.ly/3DDqhxa

18/10/2023

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.” For the next few weeks, Phoebe reads The Picture of Dorian Gray. New chapters out every day. https://buff.ly/3DDqhxa

16/10/2023

The first version of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray was published in 1890 in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. Before it came out, the magazine publisher deleted around 500 words from the story, but didn’t tell Oscar Wilde. Today, Phoebe reads Chapter 1. https://buff.ly/3DDqhxa

12/10/2023

Starting on Monday, Phoebe reads The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. One chapter a day in your podcast feed. https://buff.ly/3DDqhxa

09/08/2023

What should we read next? You can listen to all the chapters of Phoebe’s most recent read, The Strange Case of Dr, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, at https://buff.ly/3DDqhxa

07/08/2023

“Here then, as I lay down the pen and proceed to seal up my confession, I bring the life of that unhappy Henry Jekyll to an end.” Yesterday, Phoebe finished reading Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — did you listen? Find all the chapters here: https://buff.ly/3DDqhxa