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The Bloody Tower

Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries, Book 16

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The Bloody Tower

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
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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.

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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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I generally like Carola Dunn's stories in the Daisy Dalrymple series; this one is particularly good. Lots of highly accurate little historical details (and a couple of words that are no longer in common use) added to my pleasure.

Lucy Rayner's narration is excellent - good accents (with one exception too minor to change my 5 star rating) and perfect understanding of what she was reading.

Excellent narration of an excellent story

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And the story was not one of the best plot lines in this series of books

Narration is poor

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again lack of an ' English ' narrator spoils story, i.e.Devereaux has silent x.

good story but.....

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