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Sergeant Joe

By: Mary Jane Staples
Narrated by: Micky Dartford
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Everyone liked Sergeant Joe. From the huge jolly Beavis family with whom he had lodgings in Newington Butts, to Mr George Singleton, Charing Cross Road bookseller, who employed Joe in a little lucrative and harmless forgery, Sergeant Joe was a universal favourite.

Quite a few people wondered why he didn't get married. But it wasn't until he bumped into Dolly Smith - quite literally in a London pea-souper - that he met a girl who made an impression on him.

Dolly was quick, lively and full of cockney cheek. She was also a little frightened - running from a vicious-looking thug and a sinister foreigner who seemed to think she had stolen something valuable.

When Joe took Dolly under his wing he thought he was just helping her in a momentary predicament. He didn't realise his peaceful existence was going to be wrecked.

For Dolly was both bewitching and beguiling - and she was also involved in something quite dangerous that was finally to give Sergeant Joe the surprise of his life.

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Ive really liked every other book by this author that I've listened to. But this one was different. The story in principle is good but there's too many threats of domestic abuse. It made the principle characters hard to bond with and that ruins a story for me.

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I really enjoyed the Adams family books, so thought I would listen to another of the authors books. Really struggled to get into it, the chap reading it didn't make it any easier. Hoping the others are better

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