813: An Arsène Lupin Adventure

· Naxos of America, Inc. · Narrated by David Timson
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One evening, wealthy diamond merchant Rudolph Kesselbach is visited at the Palace Hotel by Arsène Lupin. The next day, Kesselbach is found dead from a gunshot wound, with Lupin’s card pinned to his shirt. The wanted Lupin is forced to use all his guile to outwit the gendarmerie and find the real murderer. Unearthing a number of mysterious clues, including a series of letters to Otto von Bismarck, and a clock displaying the number 813, Lupin is soon drawn into a Europe-wide conspiracy. Published in 1910, 813 is the fourth of the Arsène Lupin books and is considered one of the most accomplished. In this audiobook, David Timson continues his survey of Leblanc stories featuring the gentleman-burglar.

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David Timson has worked extensively in BBC Radio Drama since winning the BBC Student Prize in 1971. He has made over a thousand broadcasts and has worked regularly for Naxos AudioBooks as actor, director and writer since 1997. For Naxos AudioBooks, he has recorded the complete Sherlock Holmes stories, five Dickens novels, and a complete unabridged reading of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. In conjunction with Naxos AudioBooks and Cambridge University Press, David has directed five of the successful audio series of Shakespeare’s plays. In 2001, he won the Spoken Word Publishers Association Award for Best Original Production with The History of Theatre, which he wrote, as well as Best Drama Production with Richard III (with Kenneth Branagh), which he directed. In 2002 he won the Audiobook of the Year Award for his reading of A Study in Scarlet. Since 2004, he has been a teacher at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.

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