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A Scream in Soho

By: John G. Brandon
Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
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About this listen

Soho during the blackouts of the Second World War. When a piercing scream rends the air and a bloodied knife is found, Detective Inspector MacCarthy is soon on the scene.

He must move through the dark, seedy Soho underworld - peopled by Italian gangsters, cross-dressing German spies and glamorous Austrian aristocrats - as he attempts to unravel the connection between the mysterious Madame Rohner and the theft of secret antiaircraft defence plans.

©2014 John G. Brandon; introduction: Marftin Edwards (P)2016 Soundings Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Detective Fiction

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A really good, well narrated book. Good story line with interesting twists. Worth a listen

Super Soho

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A well narrated piece that is gripping if a little shallow in both character and storyline

Moderately shallow characters

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very enjoyable couldn't stop listening. I would recommend this audible title ; hope to listening to the next story very shortly


extremely good keep s you riveted

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the story is told with a meticulous sense of detail, but that doesn't cause the pace to drag.
there is also a sense that the author had a sense of the somewhat ridiculous nature of the story and enjoyed telling it.

meticulously and humourously written

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The setting and the people of Soho at the start of WW2 are great and a real treat for those who know and love London. The story is okay, not as exciting as Bulldog Drummond or the Saint by any stretch though. I think the real issue is that while the reader isn't bad, he's remarkably dull. My ears just tune him out so I had to keep going back and relistening to parts I missed. I noticed the same on others in this series of books he's read but thought it was the plots that weren't gripping those cases. This should have been a fun listen, but turned out to be rather tedious

Any comparison to Bulldog Drummond is pretty thin

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