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Pirate King

By: Laurie R. King
Narrated by: Jenny Sterlin
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In England’s silent-film industry, Randolph Fflytte is king. Mary Russell is dispatched to investigate the criminal activities that surround Fflytte’s movie studio, but nothing seems amiss until the company starts rehearsals in Lisbon.

There the 13 blonde-haired, blue-eyed actresses whom Mary is bemusedly chaperoning meet the swarm of real buccaneers Fflytte has recruited to provide authenticity. As movie make-believe becomes true terror, Russell and Holmes themselves may experience a final fade-out.

©2011 Laurie R. King (P)2011 Recorded Books Inc Historical Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Detective Fiction

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I generally enjoy the Mary Russell and Holmes books but this one was absurd - the one after "Garment of Shadows" (and therefore I cannot review it, suffice to say it is awful) was so ridiculous I returned it. The story hinges nicely on the making of a silent movie but descends into stereotype after stereotype and the characterisations are cliche. Well narrated and not badly written, but let down by a slavish love of theological nonsense and some kind of romantic notion of the "levant" a la T E Lawrence which reachs its zenith of preposterousness in the next book. Give this a miss - lets hope things improve in later works

Verging on the ridiculous

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