That's the Ticket and Voices in the Coal Mine

by Mary Higgins Clark

Book by Clark, Mary Higgins

Genres: Audiobook

Audio Cassette

Published January 1, 1990

About the author

The #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark has written thirty-eight suspense novels, four collections of short stories, a his­torical novel, a memoir, and two children’s books. With bestselling author Alafair Burke she wrote the Under Suspicion series. With her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, she has coauthored five more suspense novels. Her sister-in-law is the also author Mary Jane Clark.

Clark’s books have sold more than 100 million copies in the United States alone. Her books are beloved around the world and made her an international bestseller many times over.

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 4 out of 5]

That's the Ticket 4⭐
Ernie and Wilma Bean’s lucky number has won the Christmas lottery. Trouble is, Wilma’s out of town and it’s tough to keep news like that to yourself for long.

Voices in the Coal Mine 3.5⭐
The story of a young couple, Mike and Laurie, who drive to a weekend house in the country that belonged to Mike’s grandmother. The trip is meant to help Laurie to recover from nightmares, depression and phobias. She has been seeing a psychiatrist who warned the husband to be very careful as she is fragile. She seems to be on the brink of remembering things that are linked to her own grandmother who mistreated and abused her emotionally as a child. When they arrive at the holiday house nothing is like he remembered it. It’s rather bleak and sad. When something happens that reminds Laurie of her childhood, she panics and then disappears.

[Meg · Rating 4 out of 5]

That’s the Ticket - Ernie has a $2 million lottery ticket pinned to his shirt, waiting for his wife to come home from visiting her sister before Christmas. The problem is that he shoots his mouth off at the bar and Loretta, who offers him a ride home when he’s hammered, steals the ticket. When Ernie’s wife gets home, she is livid but figures out a way to get their ticket back. Just before Loretta’s husband gets home from work, Wilma and Ernie show up at her house. Wilma makes Ernie take his shirt off and shows Loretta that he has poison ivy on his chest, right where the ticket had been and Loretta has poison ivy on her hand. Wilma suggests that Loretta return the ticket or else she’ll tell Loretta’s husband that Loretta slept with Ernie. Since Loretta’s husband is extremely jealous, Loretta returns the ticket and makes Ernie put his shirt back on before her husband gets home.

[Leigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

Story one was fun and amusing about a couple who won 2 million in the lottery only to have the drunk husband blurt it out to the wrong person and lose the ticket and it's up to Wilma, the wife to bail husband Ernie out and save the day. Story two is sadder and not the greatest to be honest I can't remember much of it and it was only about 20 minutes long but Laurie is tortured by nightmares and swears she hears voices coming from the coal bin of her husband's childhood cabin. And things don't end very well for poor Laurie. Story one gets five stars but the second story lost the star for me, but still a quick easy listen and worth the time.

[Beth Snyder · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good short stories.

[Vintagebooklvr · Rating 3 out of 5]

A nice bit of snapping the whip without using violence. Smart people use what is available to them.

[Summer Walsh · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first story was good, the second not sure i how I feel about it. It needed more story...

[Arlene Harris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Mary Higgins Clark does wonderful Christmas stories.
59 min

[Diane Wachter · Rating 3 out of 5]

That's the Ticket! and Voices in the Coal Bin, Mary Higgins Clark, Talking Book-B, @ 1990, 6/2000. Ernie and Wilma Bean win the special lottery, but Wilma is out of town and Ernie cannot keep the news to himself, and the ticket is stolen. Voices in the Coal Bin, Nightmares and a country cabin. Okay.

[Bill · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ok.