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Requiem for a Mezzo

A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

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Requiem for a Mezzo

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
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About this listen

 With dashing Scotland Yard Inspector Alec Fletcher at her side, Daisy is enjoying a delightful performance of Verdi's Requiem, featuring her neighbor Muriel Westlea's celebrated sister, Bettina. But when all that emerges from the doomed diva's vocal chords is a dying gasp, Daisy soon discovers that the notoriously difficult opera star had her share of adversaries; among them a smugly philandering tenor, a burly Russian bass, and even her own vocal coach husband, with whom she shared a hardly harmonious marriage.

Did one of them fatally poison the acclaimed mezzo? Or is someone else determined to see that Daisy's investigation ends on as bitter a note as Bettina's fateful last performance?

©1996 Carola Dunn (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Marriage Cosy Cosy Mysteries

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"Dunn describes 1920s London and the characters in detail and highlights the interplay between Alec and Daisy. A snug read." ( Library Journal)
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I cannot understand why an American reader was chosen, her attempts at regional accents are hopeless and her mispronunciation of English words in the mouths of English characters are irritating. In this book La Costa ended up as La Coaster.

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These stories are entertaining, and both the characters and the period are quite vividly described. The narration, however is very poor, with bizarre pronunciation of many words, and a weak attempt at an English accent, let alone any others. It’s hard not to be distracted and irritated by this. I thought the narrator of the first few books in the series was bad, with her dreadful attempts at, for example, a Welsh accent; but Bernadette Dunne is no better.

1920’s mystery

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This is a great third book in the Daisy Dalrymple mystery, fun and excitement along the way. Read brilliantly by Bernadette Dunne.

Require for a Mezzo

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Recently tried this author because of inclusion in Audible plus. I'm a Christie fan and these are not in that league. Listened to them while doing housework and did take my mind off that. I have to agree with other reviews that the narration spoilt the listening. In some ways the narrator was good in tone and distinguishing characters but the pronunciation of some of the words was dire. Trying too hard Maybe? I don't think it was American pronunciation just a really bad attempt at trying to pronounce UK English. The stories are light listening if you can refrain from whincing at cawfee, marmalard and parsage amongst others.

Reasonable but not riveting

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I know people have commented on the narrator but I think she’s got a lovely voice that fits with the period it’s set in thanks

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