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Murder on the Flying Scotsman
- A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery, Book 4
- Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
- Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
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Summary
It is the spring of 1923 and the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple is on her way to a stately home in Scotland to research her next article for Town and Country. On board the Flying Scotsman, the famous London-to-Edinburgh train, Daisy meets an old schoolfellow, Anne Bretton. Anne, along with all of her relatives, is en route to visit the deathbed of the family scion and notorious miser, Alistair McGowan. As it currently stands, Alistair's will leaves the entire family fortune to his brother Albert, and the rest of the family is rushing to his side, each hoping to convince him to change his will in their favor.
Daisy, meanwhile, has her hands full taking care of Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher's young daughter Belinda, who ran away from home and stowed away aboard the train. She barely has time to take notice of the intricate family feud taking place all around her - that is, until Albert McGowan is found murdered on the train and Daisy is surrounded by an entire family of suspects.
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- amy learmonth
- 14-11-21
The “W” in Berwick is silent
Good story but the constant mispronunciation of Berwick where the majority of the story is set drove me crackers.
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- Steph H
- 19-08-21
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Jolly hockey sticks and bravo, such fun!
Really loving this series, it's gentle and the characters are great fun.
3 stars on the performance as yet again the accents were all over the place, and the characters voices changed, sometimes within a sentence.
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- barbara suttar
- 02-06-21
Good book, shame about the narrator.
Narrator mangles English pronunciation, place names and turns Scots accent into a strange Irish hybrid.
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- ELF UK
- 02-02-22
Good story but bad narration/ pronunciation
Berwick and many other words mis-pronounced throughout was very distracting but I liked the story and Daisy
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-05-22
Could the narration get any worse
I thought the previous narrator had trouble pronouncing British English words and attempting accents, but sadly this one is worse. From the terrible Scottish, Northumberland, and Indian accents, and the Australian Cockney, to constant mispronounciation of town names and what I thought were fairly common words (warbling is "worbling" not "waahbling", although even Brits seem to get dissection wrong - Dis-section , not Die-section).
Diverting story, made distracting by a narrator out of their depth.
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- Cath Brooksbank
- 01-08-22
Great story, good narrator, place-names murdered.
Great story as with all Daisy Dalrymple books. Good twisty plot, characters and clues aplenty.
The poor narrator needed a pronunciation guide for English place-names. Even more annoying when at least twice the narrative describes how to pronounce Durham and Berwick!
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- Anonymous User
- 18-02-23
Wrong Narrator
Again, the narrator really needs to be English to provide the correct intonation and emphasis required to give the story it's true meaning. mispronunciation of names and places and poor attempts at accents spoilt it.
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- ms
- 18-02-23
the narration on this book was appalling
have to say the combination of dreadful miss annunciation of words combined with the appauling accents that sounded more Australian than Scottish really marred the enjoyment of the story.
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- JulietGR
- 21-02-23
Entertaining tale ruined by dreadful narration.
This is a standard cozy crime story, well plotted, with engaging characters and an interesting historical context.
Unfortunately, the narration is really poor. Why does the upper class teenager, Kitty, have an aAustralian accent?
Why hasn’t the narrator bothered to find the correct pronunciation of British place names?
Why even attempt a Scots accent when the result is embarrassingly awful?
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- C A Berger
- 23-01-23
Horrendous accents
So called Scottish accents are insulting, plus it would have been good if Berwick was pronounced correctly once identified in the story and not as Ber-wick.
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