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The Bloody Tower

Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries, Book 16

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By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
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Summary

In early 1925, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher - recent mother of twins - resumes her journalistic career by agreeing to write a piece about the Tower of London - the Bloody Tower - for an American magazine. Invited to observe the centuries-old ritual Ceremony of the Keys, she's spending the night (her first time away from her babies), since the complex is locked and guarded, and the high walls are surrounded by a disused moat.

Having been given a tour of the Crown Jewels, interviewed and observed the Yeoman Warders, and met the Raven Master, Daisy has more than enough material for her article and decides to leave as early as possible the next morning to return to her family. But when walking down the stairs, she almost trips over the dead body of one of the Yeoman Warders. That there's something seriously amiss cannot be denied due to the pike sticking out of his back. With her husband, Scotland Yard DCI Alec Fletcher, assigned to resolve the case, Daisy once again finds herself in the middle of a case of murder most foul.

©2010 Carola Dunn (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Cosy Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction
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Not one of best story lines but nice enough. Most challenging is to follow the audio due to narration being two dimensional. Women seem to have to shrewd and over tip their voices and men sound constipated and gutter all. Narration makes such a farce of characters, it is a shame.

Narration is grating

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At least Lucy Rayner gets the accents correct but one would think she could pronounce names correctly. Devereux is pronounced Deverow not Deverex! There were also other mispronunciations - oh for Stephen Fry!!!

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… even love the reader, but I do wish she could get English pronunciations. For example, Devereux she pronounced Devereux not Devereau, and similarly with Beauchamp, which should be pronounced Beecham. There were others, but you get the point.

I love these books, …

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The story is a good romp. The narrator gives a fun performance whilst attempting all the accents. But her pronunciation of certain things does jolt at times.

Fun story not great performance

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While Lucy Raynor is a definite improvement on an American reader, she has a habit of making all the women talk in a shriek and… please.. Devereaux is pronounced Devero - NOT Deverux. Argh!!!

Better but…

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