Pilgrim's Rest
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Pilgrim's Rest
Narrated by:
Diana Bishop
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About this listen
The two Miss Pilgrims, Columba and Janette, think it's unwise to leave their fine ancestral home, Pilgrim's Rest. When their brother suffers a fatal fall only days after talking about selling it, and his son barely escapes two near-fatal accidents, they suspect it's deadly to leave. Surely Miss Silver can determine why the house hates to be empty.
©1948 Patricia Wentworth (P)2015 Audible, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...
Beautifully read
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So brilliantly read!
Excellent! Beautifully descriptive and read!
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A good old fashioned murder mystery
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Don't even get me started on the ludicrous concept of a well-educated upper-middle class young woman working as a housemaid for people of her own class. Just nonsensical. Judy as a companion, I could have accepted, scrubbing the floors, no!
The wartime details are interesting. However, I found the smug acceptance of male misconduct - really quite shocking behaviour is dismissed with an accepting smile - grating to say the least, post #metoo. The emphasis is very firmly on 'boys will be boys' and girls, even very young girls, should know better and only have themselves to blame if they 'fall' from grace. It's never the man's fault in this world!
I guessed the villain very early on, and the motivation for multiple murders was, quite frankly, ridiculous. There was also a bizarre angle involving drugs which was introduced and then forgotten about. (There was a hint that one character was being drugged for a particular purpose, but this was forgotten about as soon as it was raised.)
I do like the fact that there is not a completely 'happy ending', as this is more 'realistic' and, as I have noted before in a previous review of Wentworth's work, she isn't afraid to depict, (albeit briefly), the darker, more violent aspects of domestic life.
If you are happy to ignore daft plots in favour of a slow-moving vintage crime caper, (with lots and lots of recapping in case you fall asleep), then this will suit. I will continue to listen to Wentworth's work when on special offer, but wouldn't spend a full credit!
Interesting period piece, but lacks pace.
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