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The Riverside Villas Murder

Yazan: Kingsley Amis
Seslendiren: John Heffernan
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A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneaux's living room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected student prank is followed by murder. At first it is impossible to see the connection, but the eccentric Colonel Manton does. With Peter's help the Colonel unravels a mystery that strikes fear into the heart of a genteel suburban neighbourhood and gives Peter rather more excitement than he bargained for at the tennis club social. This meticulously paced thriller shows Amis at his most subtle and daring

© Kingsley Amis 1973 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

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At the nasty bits, you feel like someone coming across a meat-cleaver in a cot (John Carey)
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This is genteel fare, on the face of it, inspired by Golden Age-style detective stories: quaint settings, ingenious murder methods, and eccentric investigators ... but like a lot of Amis’s work, a familiar genre is given a fresh dimension. The central character is Peter Furneaux, a teenager whose dad is falsely accused of murder. Peter is infatuated with a glamorous neighbour. Colonel Manton runs the murder probe - shrewd, champagne-swilling, with a secret about his personal life. The story kicks off with a theft from the local museum. We follow Peter as he thinks about girls, plays records and does his French homework, against the backdrop of the murder investigation. It’s never less than entertaining, a throwback novel but one that quietly subverts or at least has a little gentle fun with the genre. Amis had written a novel on similar lines - a ghost story/sex caper called The Green Man; it’s clear he enjoyed genre experimentation. This story is clever, funny, well-told, and well-narrated.

Murder, sex and growing up - Golden Age crime drama with a twist

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Quite simply a wonderfully written and narrated story.
Rich, nostalgic, melancholic and beautiful.
Highly recommended

Wonderful.

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Very much in the style of a golden age of crime caper, this story gently unfolds through the eyes of a teenager boy. There are some dated comments as to be expected but it’s an enjoyable listen, some humour and observations on social mores and the perspective of youth. All of this is rooted in the time of its setting. Excellent narration.

Gentle classic mystery

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