![]() ![]() Gilbert is brilliant with Esme’s full-throated, lovely Puerto Rican accent. ![]() With Darby out of town, Rose squats in Darby’s apartment and begins unraveling the mystery of the death of Esme, the maid. Rose learns that a rent-controlled floor of the Barbizon has elderly women residents from its mid-century heyday, and that one of the women, Darby, was involved in a maid’s death in 1952. Present-day journalist Rose hits a crisis when her boyfriend, whom she lives with at the Barbizon, now a condo building, gets back with his ex-wife and kicks Rose out. Gilbert’s superb audio adaptation of Davis’s debut mystery, set in N.Y.C., at the renowned Barbizon Hotel, formerly a women-only residence to famous luminaries, is a highly skilled performance of this suspenseful love story, whose characters inhabit two timelines. ![]()
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