The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway | Emma Orczy | A Bitesized Audiobook

A new recording of a classic public domain text from 1901. Narrated/performed by me, Simon Stanhope, aka Bitesized Audio. If you enjoy this content and would like to help me keep creating, there are a few ways you can support me: * Monthly support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bitesizedaudio * Occasional/one-off support via Buy Me a Coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bitesizedaudio * Visit my Bandcamp page to hear more of my performances of classic stories, and you can purchase and download high quality audio files to listen offline: https://bitesizedaudio.bandcamp.com/ A lady travelling in a first class carriage of an underground train, alongside several other passengers, is found dead at the end of the line. Could it be suicide, or a most ingenious murder? 00:00:00 Introduction and biographical notes, written and read by Simon Stanhope 00:02:51 The Story begins 00:49:03 Credits and thanks Emma (Emmushka) Orczy (1865–1947) was born Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci, to an aristocratic family in Hungary. Her father was the composer Baron Félix Orczy de Orci, her mother Countess Emma Wass de Szentegyed et Cege, and her grandparents on both sides included senior politicians and royal councillors. The family fled their country estate in Tarnaörs when Emma was two years old, following a local peasant uprising, and her childhood was spent travelling through Europe, including periods in Budapest, Paris and Brussels, before eventually settling in London when she was 14. Emma's early ambition was to be a painter and she attended art school, where she met her future husband Henry George Montagu MacLean Barstow. They married in 1894 and were together for almost 50 years until Henry's death in 1942. They had one child, John, born in 1899. It was after John's birth that she took up writing and her first success was a series of detective stories submitted to the Royal Magazine in 1901, featuring the character of the Old Man in the Corner. The old man is an "armchair detective" who sits