The Old Ladies
“Quite a number of years ago there was an old rickety building on the rock above Seatown in Polchester, and it was one of a number in an old grass-grown square known as Pontippy Square. In this house at one time or another lived three old ladies,… It was a windy, creaky, rain-bitten dwelling-place for three old ladies….” (excerpt from the book) During the mid 1920s Walpole produced two of his best-known novels in the macabre vein that he drew on from time to time, exploring the fascination of fear and cruelty. The Old Ladies (1924) is a study of a timid elderly spinster exploited and eventually frightened to death by a predatory widow.
Genre(s): Crime & Mystery Fiction, Published 1900 onward
Language: English
Keyword(s): Mystery (765), england (370), gothic novel (9), polchester (2), perseecution (1)
| Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Play 01 | Mrs. Amorest Pays A Visit | David Wales |
00:29:16 |
| Play 02 | Evening In The House - Agatha Payne | David Wales |
00:26:22 |
| Play 03 | Life Of May Beringer | David Wales |
00:28:16 |
| Play 04 | Red Amber | David Wales |
00:36:45 |
| Play 05 | Christmas Eve | David Wales |
00:37:33 |
| Play 06 | Agatha Secretly... | David Wales |
00:27:11 |
| Play 07 | Death Of Hopes | David Wales |
00:27:47 |
| Play 08 | May Beringer Tries To Escape | David Wales |
00:32:38 |
| Play 09 | The Sense Of Danger | David Wales |
00:28:17 |
| Play 10 | Death Of May Beringer | David Wales |
00:29:38 |
| Play 11 | Mrs. Amorest Shows Courage | David Wales |
00:28:43 |
| Play 12 | The House Is Abandoned | David Wales |
00:26:01 |