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The Unfinished Clue

By: Georgette Heyer
Narrated by: Polly Edsell
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Summary

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Sparkling characterisation and inventive plot from one of the best-known and beloved detective novelists of all time.

The stabbing of irascible General Sir Arthur Billington-Smith fails to stir up grief in anyone - least of all his family, which is no wonder considering the way he had treated them all during the fateful weekend. He had disinherited his son, humiliated his wife, refused to help his financially stricken nephew and made no secret of his loathing for his son's fiancée, a cabaret dancer. Inspector Harding picks his way through a mass of familial discontent to find the culprit - and find much more besides.

©1934 Georgette Heyer (P)2021 Penguin Audio

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poor narrator

A great classic detective story spoilt by a stilted narrator and some awful male voices.

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Story OK, narrator not so good

Not one of Heyers best but Ok. would have been much better with a better narrator. This one gave most characters bad accents (mexican was the worst) and annoying, static, staccato way of speaking. Very irratating.

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Great story. Narration . . .

One of my favourite detective novels, but sadly ruined by dreadful narration. The straightforward narrative is fine, even good, but character voices verge on caricature, particularly the cabaret dancer, supposedly Mexican, and Geoffrey , whose stammer came and went with no apparent reason why. I got about halfway before I had to give up. Such a disappointment.

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Decent story, murdered by narration.

I'm afraid I kept having to remind myself this was a Georgette Heyer story as the narration distracted me from the plot.
Maybe this programme should herald the addition of nil or minus stars for performance. I have noticed that female narrators seem to portray all male characters with a similar voice. This narrator takes the biscuit as this comprises of lowering the voice, slowing down the speed to mono syllables & croaking the lines. This contrasts with the lesser female characters who are portrayed speaking high pitched & squeaky. As for the "Mexican" character in this story it borders on the possibly racist. It seems to slip into Indian at times & is so embarrassingly amateur. There is a character who has a stammer & this veers from stammering on every word to not at all.
The ONLY saving grace is the "none" character narration which you find yourself embracing as a rest from the "acting"
In future I will be taking more notice of WHO is doing the narration as this makes or breaks a good listen.

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Narration spoils a cracking story

The narrator is fine when she sticks to her own voice telling the story but the worst I've heard when it comes to giving special voices to the characters. The male characters are creaky, the female screechy, and one character has an abominable caricature of a Mexican accent. A real shame as it spoils a cracking story. I gave up a third of the way through and finished it on my kindle.

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Narrator dreadful

I just can’t bear her ridiculous reading the butler is a charter from acorn antiques! Unlistenable

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Unfinished clue

Enjoyed the story , very clever plot but spoilt by the readers over the top rendition of the characters and stupid voices. The sniffing of the chief constable was too much, the butlers voice was ridiculous and instead of enjoying the character of Lola the voice used for her made me dislike the character.




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Some characterisations uncomfortably high pitched

Some of the characterisations of female characters were uncomfortably high pitched, particularly after listening to other GH crime audio books narrated by Matt Addis. The recording seemed to get better as it went along, with the narrator's voice seeming to get a bit mellower, but perhaps I just got used to it. Particularly at the beginning the delivery was jerky and did not sound as though the narrator had prepared. There were a couple of minor mis-pronunciations which I think should have been picked up by whoever was supervising the recording and corrected before the recording was released. This is one of my favourite GH crime novels so I was a bit disappointed with this narration, but there are no other recordings available at the time of writing. It would be really good if narrators took the time to check the pronunciation of words they are unfamiliar with rather than just 'winging it', but it is not peculiar to this recording, I've noticed this lack of professionalism from narrators across quite a number of GH audio books available through Audible.

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Brilliant acting by Polly Edsel,

After a few moments I sank into the story, easily believing in each character who appeared. Polly has done Georgette Heyer's writing proud.

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