Murder! a detective story by Arnold Bennett

[@MaggieatPlay]

Interesting story; excellent narration; interesting commentary afterwards. Thank you, Tony!

[@Tinyflypie]

I loved this. At last, a clever detective gets it wrong. And Tony, as usual, chef's kiss for a brilliant reading.👌

[@MartiWilliams-r2z]

Really enjoyed this story with the upside down and inside out logic teasing those upper-class, snobby detectives. I really needed to be merely entertained and you and Bennett gave me precisely this, Tony. Great narrative and commentary. Thank you!

[@shadownet3d]

Excellent narration and commentary as always, Tony.

[@judithowens8212]

Thanks for the very interesting commentary, Best part of this broadcast!

[@chebbohagop]

Tony Walker, you are so funny!! And a good educator to boot.

[@thurayya8905]

I don't know how I missed this, but I am remedying the situation immediately!

[@SMichaelDeHart]

Mr. John Anthony "Tony" Walker, you're cooking with gas this week. Several videos on both channels!! Thanks much for all your hard effort and work. It's very much appreciated!!

[@classicdetective]

I get spurts like this sometimes:)

[@janevans8641]

Just found your channel and I love this story! For me, the Sherlocks who always solve the mysteries are magical, not realistic. I've always wanted to hear that it's sometimes possibile that no one was there to catch the crucial clue, or that it was misinterpreted, and the culprit was never caught. I'm sure it happens in real life.

[@classicdetective]

I think that’s a really important point. They aren’t realistic and probably in a sense aren’t intended to be.

[@smilton-r5q]

great stuff. Love your readings and your talks afterwards, I never remember whodunnit so even stories I've read or heard come as new! Thanks and all the best

[@classicdetective]

Glad you like them!

[@along5925]

As always, totally entertaining! Your commentary really adds to the enjoyment. I always come away with new insights. Thanks again, Tony

[@judikingsman6132]

I like this voice. Makes the story more interesting ❤😁

[@sandieking9007]

It's so nice to have a new one on a Sunday afternoon.

[@matthbhhh2439]

The guy on the right with the gun is the murderer

[@feliciascott5544]

You're funny!!

[@judikingsman6132]

😂

[@peterbianchi6219]

Yup. I think so too, as opposed to the guy on the left, with a gun.

[@wherami]

Lol

[@cronchyskull]

That's just what the true perp WANTS you to think... 👀

[@shirleybewley6646]

A delight once again! Thank you Tony

[@lynnelovejoy9020]

I enjoyed this story and the unexpected plot, also your commentary at the end. I'm glad you said it was "just a story" and I didn't have to be too hard on myself. I was glad that the Emily was saved and the solution was quick and clean, but I didn't think that Harder should have killed Fanting, it shocked me. However, I didn't want Harder to be punished. Perhaps there are two moral codes, one prescribed by society to keep people safe and one within the soul of the noble person who rights the unforgivable wrong. I'm sure Harder will always feel guilty for what he did, even though he felt he had no choice. Unresovlable. Love your voices, BTW.

[@georginatuohy5747]

Thank you ☘️

[@sheilacasper2030]

This was a great story. Love the theme song.

[@donaldkelly3983]

Again, I cannot thank you enough for another great crime story! And again you have presented another writer I should read more of. A Penguin Classics copy of The Old Wives Tale is sitting on my shelf not far from a paperback of The Tower of the Trebizond by Rose Macaulay.

[@lorraineforster8164]

I quite enjoy the story unfolding and clever surprises. My brain is uncomplicated. 😊

[@mosart7025]

I wondered the whole last 5 minutes if Dr. Bond, since he seemed to know so much about Fanting, thought that the world was better off without him and didn't want the murderer punished? That he was misdirecting the police maybe? But another part of my mind wondered if it was a spoof... sending up the all-so-knowing detective.

[@ClockworkChainsaw]

It's a "Will they get away with it?" :)

[@daftirishmarej1827]

I agree!

[@carolrios9216]

I really like this one, Tony!❤

[@Oregonthistle]

Let’s not forget the “virtuous” shooter is also a thief.

[@michaelmcewan432]

Excellent work

[@jemartinez50ja]

Enjoy listening to this voice ❤❤❤❤❤ I know he voices the Sargent in Dover series n Cop in Wolf series. His voice keeps me captivated.

[@davidgrindrod6691]

Tony I always really enjoy your humane and erudite commentary as much as the story. in this case, though, I feel you may have overlooked a point of irony that struck me, at least. That is, that the end result of the righteous muderer's action and secrecy, was to force the poor woman back into involvement with her former unhappy home life, mourning the demise of her horrible husband, and probably bearing the burden of guilt that she caused his suicide by way of her letter. I guess this is only really ironic if the poet actually is selfishly hoping to get with the woman. It does some to me that the author is suggesting this motivation, as he is hoping she'll get over her upset in future. If the murderer's motivation was truly 100% altruistic, then it does seem to come down to a utilitarian question: is the wife better off being tormented or likely murdered by the beastly husband, or tormented by the mistaken belief that she drove him to suicide? Perhaps the most altruistic course for the murderer to admit his crime to the wife, which might cost him her affection, and possibly his own life if she turns on him.

[@classicdetective]

you make an excellent moral point!

[@marymary5494]

Love Arnold Bennett. 👌💕

[@tracymarie4633]

I'm so into your voice. Even the 1st time I heard your commentary I listened to the end. Still do. Stop apologizing for your "accents". I've never heard a real "French" accent (nor any others, for that matter) so, it's just fun for me.

[@stewartlancaster6155]

Liverpool Street, not Liverpool station.

[@davidhudson5251]

Interesting: your name is John Anthony. My wife’s grandfather, who emigrated from southern Italy to the USA in the early 1900’s, was named Giovannantonio, one word.

[@miriam4235]

Even if the murder was totally justified, the absolute lack of emotion and qualms about having done the act is bone chilling. Listening to Lomax his thoughts after the fact makes me think he's an absolute psychopath.

[@WowUsernameAvailable]

I think you've got that feeling for 3 reasons. First, we haven't spent enough time with the deceased to develop revulsion at what a depraved individual he is. It's mentioned in passing, but we as readers haven't spent enough time observing his depravities to start hating him. Secondly, the other dude is clearly passionately in love with the woman, which excuses him to some degree (lapse of reason etc.) Finally, we observe the murderer leave the murder scene, which he would be doing under adrenaline, and then we next see him when time has passed, albeit not much, and even then we don't get much of a glimpse into his thoughts.

[@miriam4235]

Nope. It's Lomax thoughts after the death: he had "all his wits about him". He was "not exited" and he "fully kept his presence of mind". He felt not the "slightest twinge of conscious". In stead he felt "ecstasy of devotion" for a woman he freed with his act. He would do it again a hundred times. And despite all of this he considers his heart pure. In other words; this guy considers himself a innocent moral arbitrary of justice. Killing doesn't even get his heart rate up. Instead he gets h*rny for the woman who is now supposed to be grateful to him.... Totally not a creep at al.

[@williamjenkins4913]

@@miriam4235 As a rule of thumb I assume anyone telling themselves that they are acting cool is not at all acting cool. So I read all that as him trying to tamp down his growing panic rather then a reliable assessment.

[@lorisutherland7728]

What do you look like compared to your voice Your voice is amazing.

[@miriam4235]

This might be considered a inverted detective story or a howcatchem? We know the killer and how he's done it, but follow the defective figure out and zero in on the murderer. Columbo is a perfect example of that. This would have gone the same way if the detective in this case wasn't so inept.

[@ropeburnsrussell]

Quite a twist!

[@marilynlynds3398]

Fun

[@craigoliver8712]

As respect to picture,the billiard table cloth is red not green+Lomas is wearing no hat,not that it matters a jot,excellent as always Tony,quite pleased he escaped justice

[@classicdetective]

I am colour blind so red and green are an illusion that normies have invented to make me feel bad

[@tracymarie4633]

The pictures are just for the purpose of giving atmosphere, never accuracy.

[@carmenplangger9417]

Hello, I'm only here for the commentary. 😄

[@classicdetective]

ha ha

[@lorisutherland7728]

I think that in David and Goliath David was a saint to get rid of the evil and therefore God got him to do in most cases evil but in this David wasn’t evil he was a saint.

[@tjblue22]

Great band name. 😂

[@deegeraghty9426]

Not THE Arnold Bennett !

[@StoryVoracious]

Ah. Proof that Fate is not always cruel. Well at least not to everyone. This is what I feel is a Tea Cozy story. A story that goes well with a cuppa and a sit down. (Ha! If only!). As to vigilanteism, my dear old Dad, had the police sent around by our State Premier for threatened octigenarian action in the community. 🙄 ( He always did rmind me of Dad's Army's Jonesy ). Luckily that all ended with a nice chat, a cup of tea and a sit down. Very grertful for ye werk mi dooks. 🦆🦆🦆🦆

[@classicdetective]

Poor old Dad

[@mijiyoon5575]

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@lorisutherland7728]

The legal system still does not protect women

[@Lindaeditz8]

Stop moaning,I agree all should be protected,but why are you only concerned about one gender??

[@lorisutherland7728]

@@Lindaeditz8 I’m not but the most I’m concerned about are children . And women are the prey to all kinds of evil like marriatal rape, sodomy to a partner to where they bleed, was t a law in ks until 1990’s . Rape, date rape, even in france a women stuck up for herself cause her husband was doping her, asking men over to have sex with her while she was past out and taping it. Then made her think she had Alzheimer’s. When men leave to do drugs and or alcohol and leave you with hungry kids that’s abuse also not just to the women but to the children. A woman was almost killed cause the husband wanted another woman but would never tell her and she never got child support . Is that fair. And when Muslim men think it’s the woman’s fault becuase he in his own mind wanted her and raped her and then blames it on the woman . And she gets honor killed or stoned to death. Is the ok thinking no. Do something to help instead of running people down who have been thru this and want it stopped. Help them and it will slow down other crimes like theft, drug abuse , alcohol abuse, abuse towards children and poor .

[@peterbianchi6219]

An amusing tale, very nicely narrated as always, BUT I'm not sure this IS a detective story. More of a "good guy shoots bad guy and gets away with it" story. With comic relief allowing the getaway - an incompetent inspector (Lestrade) and a Holmes parody... Bond; Doctor Bond. Anyway, good fun for a fellow with insomnia. p.s. Just learned there's an Arnold Bennett Omelette, originated at The Savoy ... but you'll have to have it all pulled out after The Savoy Truffle ... dum dum dum dum.

[@susangregory2556]

63! In my head your voice conjours a picture of a man in his thirties 😮.

[@classicdetective]

I wish

[@christinemorton63]

Not for me 😢

[@xenopus-thefrog]

Labouring the obvious

[@catherinemckinney4091]

I do not like Tony Walker as a narrator. Nothing that most would agree to. I just don't