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The King Is Dead

By: Hugh Morrison
Narrated by: Charles Johnston
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About this listen

Christmas, 1930. An exiled Balkan king, living incognito in rural Suffolk, is shot dead in his secluded mansion following a meeting with the local vicar, Reverend Lucian Shaw.

Special Branch detectives are soon on the trail of sinister agents of a foreign power that they think are responsible, but Shaw begins to realize that the culprit could be much closer to home.

Observation, cogitation, meditation, and prayer lead him down a dangerous road toward a desperate killer who will stop at nothing to evade capture.

©2021 Hugh Morrison (P)2021 Hugh Morrison Cosy Mystery Fiction

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the book, the narrator, brilliant. just one word to describe it really. excellent, excellent, excellent, excellent, excellent

excellent

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It’s meant to be written in the style of the great crime writers but it’s lacking something.

It’s ok

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Plot was like a 1950’s B movie. Dialogue was stilted. I enjoyed A Third Class Murder which prompted me to buy this. I should have saved my time and money.

Disappointing

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An escape of a King from a worker’s uprising to the not so safer shores of England and some confected nonsense about a lazy husband whose left wing principles prevent him from taking a job. I gave up half way through first chapter. Life is too short! The reader is excellent - shame about the storyline.

Sorry, this one failed me.

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Good narrator. Ridiculous story. Characters were uninteresting. I guessed the killer at the beginning.

Very predictable

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