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Rattle His Bones

The Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries, Book 8

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The eighth installment in this cozy mystery series features Daisy Dalrymple at the Museum of Natural History, a place of fascination - and murder.

In the summer of 1923, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple makes what should be an uneventful research trip to the Museum of Natural History quite an eventful day - with her nephew, Derek, and her soon-to-be stepdaughter, Belinda, in tow. But as she interviews the various curators for her article on the museums of London, she soon discovers that the Museum of Natural History is a hothouse of professional rivalry and jealousy. Much resentment exists, particularly between Dr. Smith Woodward, the keeper of geology, responsible for the fossil collection, and Dr. Pettigrew, the keeper of mineralogy, responsible for the museum's fabulous gem collection.

On a later trip, as closing time nears, Daisy hears two voices followed by a tremendous crash and rushes into the next hall to discover Dr. Pettigrew dead - murdered amid a pile of dinosaur bones.

Daisy's fiancé, Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard, is assigned to investigate, and together they must unravel a most baffling case of missing gems, dispossessed European royalty, professional rivalry, and a murder most foul.

©2000 Carola Dunn (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Cosy Fiction Historical Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Natural History Detective Paleontology Crime Murder
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I enjoy the stories, but the previous two narrators were pretty ghastly. The new narrator does a, as Daisy might say, spiffing job!

Finally a reader that does the story justice!

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Better narrator. Makes a huge difference. Fun and engaging story for a free book with audible.

Better narrator

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I’ve been patient and put up with the horrible interpretations of previous american narrators, only because I had read that finally with this book the narrator is english… ohh what a difference!
Daisy finally sounds like an aristocratic lady, fun and a little stubborn.
I didn’t like the children’s interpretation, Brenda is so high pitched that it’s annoying, but overall a thousand times better than the former narrators.

The plot is rather too simple and very easy to follow, perfect as background sounds for me while I was painting the walls.

A round of applause to the new narrator!

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Quite a good story but spoilt by the narration. Previous reviews indicated that the narration was good (or maybe "awfully spiffing "??) However, I found the narrator to be very irritating. The voices of the women, mainly Daisy and, particularly, Lucy, were very high-pitched, making them sound silly and lacking in intelligence. Piper's high-pitched voice was irritating, too. The story did keep me guessing, though, as to who committed the crimes. I doubt I'll be listening to any other books in the series and am glad it was free and included in my membership.

Too, too frightful!

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I love this series. The violence is moderate, a pleasant picture of a bygone era is beautifully described.

Thoroughly pleasant

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