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Death at Wentwater Court

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
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This first installment of a cozy mystery series transports listeners back to the bygone era of 1923 Britain, where unflappable flapper and fledgling journalist Daisy Dalrymple daringly embarks on her first writing assignment, and promptly stumbles across a corpse.

No stranger to sprawling country estates, wealthy Daisy Dalrymple is breaking new ground in having scandalously traded silver spoon for pen and camera to cover a story for Town and Country magazine. But her planned interviews with the inhabitants of Wentwater Court give way to interrogation after suave Lord Stephen Astwick meets a dire fate on the tranquil skating pond.

Armed with evidence that his fate was anything but accidental, Daisy joins forces with Scotland Yard to examine an esteemed collection of suspects and to see that the unlikely culprit doesn't slip through their fingers just as the unfortunate Astwick slipped through the ice.

©1994 Carola Dunn; (P)2005 Blackstone Audiobooks Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Cosy Destiny Crime Cosy Mysteries
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I enjoyed this book very much, but found the narrator to be difficult to listen to. She has a repetitive inflection at the end of each sentence, and her character voices were rather dodgy. It spoiled the book for me, I'm afraid.

good book, terrible reader

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This was a gently enjoyable book, set back in the 1920’s and Christie-esque in style. However, it would have been so much better narrated by a British reader. The American narrator didn’t do too badly, but some of the mispronounciations and dreadful rural accents really grated. She seems to think that everyone who wasn’t landed gentry had a cockney accent, no matter where they came from. I’d like to listen to more of these, but at least 2 and 3 are read by the same person 🙄 sigh….

Not a bad tale

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Nice easy listen did it in one day
Clever writing very discpitive loved 88 .

Lovely

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This is the first in a huge series of 1920s murder mysteries. And they’re all free on Audible incl in your membership now!

It’s an easy listen, an old fashioned who dunnit, and a bit like a warm bath. Quite a good story line, too.

The narrator is American and can do really good English accents some of the time, but it’s not consistent. Still it’s probably churlish to criticise a free download, and I did like her voice, and got used to the sometimes things odd pronunciations.

I’m looking forward to a few more weeks with the redoubtable Daisy!

A freebie from audible

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this was well read and transported you back into the 1920s a really good story.

enjoyable story.

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