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Death at the Priory
- Love, Sex and Murder in Victorian England
- Narrated by: Alistair Petrie
- Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
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- Helen
- 08-01-10
A really compelling listen
This is a really interesting audiobook about a true life case of a Victorian poisoning. It's a classic "whodunnit", and the author clearly presents the evidence in an engaging way that leaves you guessing until the end. This is light enough not to require too much of your attention, but riveting enough to keep you listening until the end. A great listen for while you are driving around in the car - I kept finding excuses to put it on so that I could find out what happened! Highly recommended.
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- Elizabeth Davies
- 29-07-10
Fascinating
I listened to this in one sitting. It was fascinating. The reader is superb and the writing too! I urge you to try it if you enjoy a crime story.
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- Brian
- 11-01-12
Don't miss this fascinating true storey
Of all the books I have listened to, this is, without doubt, one of the best. A true storey, excellently narrated by James Ruddick, who's voice has all the necessary levels and precise diction to hold your attention. The storey keeps you guessing until the very end. So good in fact, I will most probably listen again. Don't miss it.
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- Denise
- 13-12-11
Brilliant!
Factual, historical, gripping and informative. I loved every minute of it. Beautifully read.
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- Jeanette
- 18-04-10
Suspicious Death Investigated
This is an excellent book, which compares well with The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, placing it in a similar social context, of police officers being unable to do their work fully because of power structures within society. It is, like Summerscale's text, about identified people, where there are very long standing repercussions across time and place, where effects are fully recognised. Murder is often trivialised: not in this book. It is read with careful tone, not dramatised, with attention to meaning, I really enjoyed this audio book, and can highly recommend it those interested in social history, as well as true crime accounts.
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- krissi
- 21-09-20
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This is the best book I've read on the bravo mystery. Full of detail, not coy. Thoroughly researched and well narrated. Superb, thank you.
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- Julieb
- 22-12-19
excellent.
well vresearch ed book. a crime not heard of before today. great narrator. very gripping.
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- Miss A V
- 01-02-19
Passion, parsimony and poison...
This is a brilliant audiobook. It's gripping from start to finish. It tells the true story of the hideous drawn-out death of Barrister at Law Charles Bravo whose intestines were literally melted by antimony poisoning. The culprit was never identified, but it is not hard to see why his passionate, headstrong young wife wished to be rid of him. Their torturous union certainly wasn't a match made in heaven and in the moral climate of Victorian Britain, women (even wealthy ones) were treated as second class citizens. Mrs Bravo was rich and beautiful but irrevocably tainted by a (geriatric) sex scandal - hence the hasty, ill fated union with a cold-blooded control freak who clearly married her to elevate his social standing and get his grasping mitts on her money. One can't help wondering whether her first husband's untimely death was due to alcoholism, but as with all the best domestic murder mysteries - we shall never know...
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- Denise
- 23-01-15
Gripping
I will listen to this again as it was so good. Well read, well written, well researched. An intriguing in site into Victorian life.
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- RubyShoes
- 24-04-13
Very Good Read
I really enjoyed this a good story and good narration. Very often reviewing of "evidence" with true stories of this type both so long after the events and from a more current mindset I find myself thinking the analysis is not always explained very well and is often flawed in some way. James Ruddick does very well in explaining how he approaches his subject and does so from predominantly from his knowledge of attitudes of the time ... in other words from what what iknown then as opposed to what we know now. I liked that.
Alistair Petrie is very easy on the ear and I enjoyed his narration style nothing there to irritate a very picky listener :)
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