Read by Grover Gardner

Listening to Meet Me at the Morgue is like stepping into a time machine.
Offices have typewriters and Dictaphones. WWII is "The War." And a 50K
kidnap ransom would pay a "secretary's salary for twenty years." This
is a gorgeous look at the late 1940s through the eyes of Howard Cross,
county probation officer. One of his probationers disappears and is
accused of kidnapping the 4-year-old son of a wealthy family. Cross
interviews everyone from aging film actresses and housekeepers to the
filthy rich and just plain filthy. Grover Gardner is stuffy as Cross,
whose righteous homilies have a judgmental tone, and folksy as the
grocery clerk whose ice picks cost 26 cents. While his women characters
seem more like caricatures, overall Gardner provides fine listening for
Macdonald fans.

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