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Signal for Vengeance

The Railway Detective, Book 13

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Signal for Vengeance

By: Edward Marston
Narrated by: Nick McArdle
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1860, Wimborne, Dorset. Rebecca Tullidge, miserably married to her callous husband, is having an affair with a railway officer, John Bedloe. Much to her distress, she trips over her lover's dead body on the railway tracks.

Determined to win votes for the upcoming election of mayor, Mr Feltham calls for Inspector Colbeck and Sergeant Lemming to solve the hideous crime, which takes longer than anticipated.

On discovering Bedloe has a town's worth of enemies as well as a sordid past, Colbeck and Leeming must unearth who is capable of plotting a violent murder. And with a pregnant wife at home, Colbeck must work quickly.

©2016 Edward Marston (P)2017 Story Sound Crime Crime Fiction Historical Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Marriage

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A good story with lots of twist’s and turns but the narrator is not good ,bring back the wonderful
Cornelius Garrett

Good story

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I enjoy the Inspector Colbeck series, but in this instalment I found the narration to be flat and dull. The voice of Sgt Leeming doesn't fit his physical description as being gruff and rough, at one point he seems to pick up a West Country accent when he is supposed to be a Londoner, similarly Supt. Tallis has lost his "bark".
Until the narrator changes I'll stick to the paperbacks.

Good story let down by poor narration

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Like 👍 all railway detective stories i enjoyed listening to them

I now have the complete set

Signal for vengence

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Narrators voice is good, though he doesn’t always read sentences and he’s reading line by line without regards to punctuation, which consequently takes away from the drama of the story.

Good voice but…

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Entertaining from the first minute to the last, loved it! Cannot wait for the next, these are so good

Another amazing railway detective story

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