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The Trouble with Harriet

By: Dorothy Cannell
Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
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This wickedly funny English whodunit was a Mystery Guild Main Selection. Its spunky heroine, interior decorator Ellie Haskell, aspires to live a perfectly normal life with her husband and children in their lovely old house. But bizarre events and outlandish characters keep landing on her doorstep in Chitterton Fells, the charming little village by the sea. Just when Ellie means to escape her hectic life by taking a vacation in France, her long-lost father shows up with the ashes of his lady love in his suitcase. Ellie becomes suspicious as Daddy recounts the details of his storybook romance with Harriet, the platinum-blonde ideal of English womanhood he met in a German biergarten.

You will relish Cannell’s keen sense of the absurd as the plot thickens to include a visit from a kleptomaniac aunt, a village production called Murder Most Fowl, and missing relics of the local saint, Ethelwort. Barbara Rosenblat, with her impeccable comic timing and flair for characterization, is the perfect narrator for Cannell’s uproarious series.

©1999 Dorothy Cannell (P)2000 Recorded Books, LLC Detective Mystery Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction Funny Village
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Unfortunately the narrator appears to be sucking a sweet or similar. It's like listening to someone talk with their mouth full. So distracting I sent it back without listening to more than about an hour.

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If you can suspend disbelief sufficiently to be able to get engulfed in the amazing occurences, you will enjoy this book. Its a bit of a mix of Agatha Christie, Enid BLyton and Janet Evanovitch! I found the tongue in cheek humour quite amusing but got a bit frustrated with the plot which involved people being very gullible about events and rather 'olde English' stiff upper lip refusing to report people to the police to protect them. For instance when the barmy vicar drives off in the main character's car she doesn't consider telling the police, although it is missing for several days and has a vital piece of evidence on the front seat, because it will go badly for the vicar if she tells. THe story depends on a lot of very strange unrealistic characters but kept me listening until the end.

Might be Described as a Romp

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