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Swan Song
- Narrated by: Paul Panting
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Summary
As inventive as Agatha Christie, as hilarious as P.G. Wodehouse - discover the delightful detective stories of Edmund Crispin. Crime fiction at its quirkiest and best.
When an opera company gathers in Oxford for the first post-war production of Wagner's Die Meistersinger its happiness is soon soured by the discovery that the unpleasant Edwin Shorthouse will be singing a leading role. Nearly everyone involved has reason to loathe Shorthouse but who amongst them has the fiendish ingenuity to kill him in his own locked dressing room?
In the course of this entertaining adventure, eccentric Oxford don and amateur sleuth Gervase Fen has to unravel two murders, cope with the unpredictability of the artistic temperament, and attempt to encourage the course of true love.
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- Kish Logan
- 13-02-23
A decent performance let down by shocking production.
Paul Panting reads this rather well, but it is quite frankly disgraceful that he has been so badly let down by his producers. It’s not up to him, it’s up to them to check up on how words are pronounced. So in a novel which is set entirely during a production of a Wagner opera, nobody has bothered to find out how “Bayreuth” is pronounced, &
we are left with the impression that it’s somewhere in the Middle East. The mispronunciations are so frequent and so distracting that it comes as a shock, and another distraction, when he occasionally pronounces a long word correctly. (And Crispin loves long words.)
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Overall2 out of 5 stars
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- Anon
- 06-12-21
Spoiled by narration
It is so disappointing when the narrator cannot be bothered to look up important names and this narrator pronounced so many words wrong I could not finish the book. Der Rosenkavalier, motif, Beyreuth, Laocoon and so on horribly mangled.
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