Download Winter at Death's Hotel: A Louisa Conan Doyle Mystery AudioBook Free
New York, January 1896: Arthur Conan Doyle, the renowned inventor of Sherlock Holmes, finds the Britannic Hotel along with his wife, Louisa, prepared to begin his first American tour. While he prepares his lectures, Louisa becomes mesmerised by this brash, lively, dangerous city, specially when a woman's brutally butchered corpse is situated in a Bowery alley and Louisa is persuaded from the artist's sketch in the paper that she'd seen the sufferer at the hotel. Arthur is patronisingly sceptical about her womanly "fantasies" however when she sprains her ankle and is pressured to remain at the hotel while Arthur goes on tour, Louisa cannot resist pursuing her intuitions. So when more systems start showing, she's persuaded that she holds the key to the killings. By using the hotel's hard-bitten detective and an ambitious girl media reporter, Louisa begins to patch together a story of madness, murder, and depravity - a story that leads inexorably back again to the hotel itself, the bizarre history of its unique building, and a madman who's enjoying her every move. Read by Jane McDowell. Jane McDowell's work spans theatre, film, tv set and radio. Display work includes a leading role in the honor winning English feature film Twelve IN A VERY Field, major functions in a number of Bollywood videos, numerous short videos, and the BBC dramas Dustbin Baby and Daughters. She has recorded plays and poetry readings for BBC radio, works regularly for BBC Audio Books and Calibre Sound Library and then for Interact, a business of actors who read to stroke patients in London hospital. Jane holds an MA in Performance Studies from Central College of Speech and Episode. She lives in London with her little girl Antonia.
