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Stealing the Crown

A Guy Harford Mystery, Book 1

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Stealing the Crown

By: TP Fielden
Narrated by: Joel Froomkin
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Britain is at war - but the greatest threat to the Crown might be within the Palace walls.

London, 1941: Major Edgar Brampton is found shot dead in his office in Buckingham Palace. All signs point towards a self-inflicted tragedy, but when Palace authorities hurry his body away and order staff to stay silent, fellow courtier Guy Harford's suspicions are raised.

While the outside world faces the onslaught of war, within the Palace walls a curious mystery unfolds. Rumours swirl about Brampton's relationship with the Queen, and there's talk of other plots involving those closest to the King.

To get to the bottom of what really happened, Guy joins forces with some unlikely allies - Rodie Carr, a beautiful East End burglar, and Rupert Hardacre, a postman with a past - but time may be running out...for him, for the King, and for Britain. Someone has their eye on the crown, and they'll do anything to get it.

Can Guy solve the case before more blood is spilled on the royal carpets? Or will he be the next victim?

©2020 TP Fielden (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Fiction Detective War Royalty

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it's an interesting premise and explores the hothouse atmosphere of an old and closed society i.e. Buckingham palace, in a funny and irreverent way. The narrator is excellent and gets the accents really well.

Great story really enjoyed it.

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This is a good attempt at a romp set on the fringes of the royal household during the war but it didn't quite work. It relies on weaving into the plot real members of the royal family, all off-stage, which kept on reminding me it was a bit of fluff. Trying to fix it with real people undermined the humour.

There are some fun characters along the way which the narrator captured well. He is a talented voice actor but his RP sounded forced and let it down as the two male carried a lot of the plot and dialogue and their pronunciation was too careful. Even with that much care, american pronunciation and emphasis was a regular enough feature to jar.

it was a fun listen but I will stick with the Miss Diment stories by the same author.

just a bit forced

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I was expecting something more serious but this turned out to be incredibly good fun. As a republican it was an enormous joy to see the royals portrayed as the appalling people they probably are. Thank the gods of literature you can’t slander the dead.

Light but fun

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A pleasant listen, if not a great one. The plot seemed a little over the top but the characters were engaging.

I enjoyed the performance more than the book

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