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  • By: Carola Dunn
  • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
  • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (273 ratings)
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By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
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Summary

In September 1926, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher visits Sybil Sutherby, a school friend now living in Derbyshire as the confidential secretary to a novelist. Suspecting that something is seriously amiss, Sybil has asked Daisy to discretely investigate.

Upon arrival, Daisy finds a household of relatives and would-be suitors living off the hospitality of Humphrey Birtwhistle, who had been supporting them through his thrice-yearly, pseudonymous Westerns. When he took ill, though, Sybil took over writing them while he recovered, only to see the sales increase. Now, she fears that someone in the household is poisoning Birtwhistle to keep him ill and Sybil writing the better-paying versions.

But before Daisy can even get decently underway, Humphrey Birtwhistle dies under suspicious circumstances and Daisy now faces a death to untangle, a house full of suspects, and a Scotland Yard detective husband who is less than pleased at this turn of events.

©2013 Carola Dunn (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Boring

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

Getting on with the plot.

Has Gone West put you off other books in this genre?

No because I already have several which I enjoy.

What about Lucy Rayner’s performance did you like?

She is the best thing about the book

What character would you cut from Gone West?

Too many to mention

Any additional comments?

I have lost the will to live with this book as it is so slow. Don't want to hear the rest, so I am returning it in favour of something I know I will enjoy later in the month.

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Ok, but Daisy and Alec are fast becoming boring

This is book 20 in the series so I know what to expect, and for sure none of the recurring characters will change in the slightest by now, but even if the book is just fine if you listen while driving or when you are doing some repetitive chore, it is not very exciting.

I don’t mind the reader, but sometimes her voice is so high pitched that it’s annoying.

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Zzzz..

So dreadfully overlong and boring that only the murder of Daisy Fletcher nee Dalrymple would have livened it up. If you can't sleep, listening to this will soon have you snoring.

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The awful narration.

The narrator has never met a Scot or an Irishman. She even made Detective Fletcher sound like an irritable 70 year old not like a sprightly man in his thirties. Stick to reading the story without the accents. A reasonable story ruined by the narration.

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Another great Daisy Dalrymple story

Good story, great characters, lots of red herrings as usual . Great performance from Lucy

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A good mystery

Good characters and it remained a mystery till the last chapter. The story was rather sedentary after the last one.

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Okay, but not the best of the series.

Not one of the best of the Dalrymple stories, rather formulaic and a bit repetitive. It is still a good enough story and entertaining enough for bedtime listening.
The narrator isn’t good at all, the voice characterisations are very amateurish and exaggerated, you just have to rise above it and concentrate on the story.

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By this point

I think we can all agree that the Scottish doctor who appears in every book is actually one man who is travelling the country bumping off random aristocrats, and Daisy has been getting it wrong all along.

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Overall best narrator yet

Matreè de mis pronunciation.
Not change of tone between paragraphs. On the whole a 4 Star listen

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Good

Not my favourite and wasn’t different enough to be honest, it’s a shame that a better narrator hasn’t been found but she is the best of the lot so far. Thanks.

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