General Information
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 Title:                  The Third Policeman
 Author:                 Flann O'Brien
 Copyright:              1967
 Audiobook Copyright:    2007
 Genre:                  Humour
 Abridged:               No

File Information
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 Number of MP3s:         22
 Total Duration:         5:52:33
 Total MP3 Size:         322.80
 Parity Archive:         Yes
 Ripped By:              MP3BookHelper
 Encoded At:             CBR 128 kbit/s 44100 Hz Stereo
 ID3 Tags:               No

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Book Description
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Flann O'Brien's masterpiece, IMHO the funniest book ever written, and 
possibly one of the most cleverly plotted. It defiitely has one of the 
finest first lines ever penned! Rejected by O'Brien's publisher in 1940, 
despite the fact they published his vastly inferior student novel At 
Swim Two Birds, he locked it in a drawer and told anyone who asked that 
he had burned it. After he died in 1966 his widow found the MS and it 
was finally published. My favourite book!

SUMMARY
An over-educated and impoverished farmer with a wooden leg is gradually 
seduced into assisting his corrupt and idle farm manager commit a murder 
for financial gain... and, when he finally retrieves his half of the 
loot, finds himself at the mercy of three indescribably strange country 
policemen with bizarre preoccupations - and whose suspicions he does 
not wish to arouse by leaving the police barracks.


"His writing is invariably compared to those other Irish greats, Joyce 
and Beckett, but for me he is infinitely more accessible and much funnier." 
(Sue Arnold, The Guardian, UK)
"If ever a book was brought to life by a reading, it is this presentation 
of O'Brien's posthumously published classic. Norton individually crafts 
voices and personalities for each character in such a way that a listener 
might imagine an entire cast of voice talent working overtime....[He] 
ties the ribbon on a perfect presentation of this absurd and chilling 
masterpiece." (Publishers Weekly)

