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The Winter Garden Mystery
- A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
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Summary
Feisty flapper Dalrymple is a breath of fresh air to the occupants of gloomy Occles Hall in Cheshire, among them her former school chum, wallflower Bobbie Parslow, and the thorny mistress of the manor, Lady Valeria. While photographing the barren ground behind the house, Daisy suspects someone has been digging amidst the soil's first green shoots, and promptly unearths the corpse of Grace Moss, the missing parlor maid. So begins a harrowing romp as the dead woman's shocking secret is revealed.
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"Manners (P.G. Wodehouse-style) and mystery get equal time in a low-keyed story with considerable charm." ( Kirkus Reviews)
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- Mrs. H. L. Rider
- 13-04-17
Daisy is always a guaranteed winner!
Daisy does it again and as the main characters develope my joy increases. Another mystery and another delightful few days in their company. The only fleeting shadows for me are with Dunnes narration. I love her voices and if you've never spent time in the UK you will love it, however, the 'posh' accent attempts produce some weird pronunciations but it does get better towards the end. I'd still buy these books with the same narrator would suggest you listen to a sample first.
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- katea
- 23-08-21
Terrible narration
A mediocre story with terrible narration. Why have an American reader who has no idea of English pronunciation or accents?
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- magsb
- 22-01-22
Pronunciations will make you cringe
A pleasing story ruined by awful reading , such a shame . Makes it hard to listen to
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- Cawley
- 08-11-22
Shame about the narration.
The story is set in aristocratic England in the 1920s and the narrator should have a cut glass English accent. Unfortunately the narrator is American. She tries to get it right, but fails. It really irritates.
Perhaps an English narrator next time?
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- yvonny
- 27-12-22
Highly entertaining
These books are gentle detective stories perfect for light listening when working in the garden or around the house .
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- Pippa
- 22-04-16
What was that accent
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
I would recommend that they read it NOT listen to it. Is Bernadette American? I think she must be her English accents are DREADFUL! I found her horrible accents so distracting that it spoilt the story. Honestly get someone who can do English regional accents to read this story and it would get all 5 stars from me!
What did you like best about this story?
The story is great - I really enjoyed the story. I think this author is really good and I will look for her books read by a different narrator.
Would you be willing to try another one of Bernadette Dunne’s performances?
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- Alison
- 04-08-21
The Case of the Strange Narration
The strange narration continues. If anything, Book 2 is even more bizarre than Book 1.
I got this (and the whole series) free with my Audible membership, so I would be very churlish to actually complain. But, had I BOUGHT these books, I’d be asking for credits to be refunded. It’s such a shame as the stories are good romps. Even though free, for me, I doubt I’ll be able to listen to any more as the accent is so hilariously distracting.
The Welsh gardener is kind of Scottish. The north west England servants are Australian. Vaguely.
Please don’t buy these. Download them free with your membership. Then it’s not so painful, I imagine. Or, as the narrator would say: I imaaaagine 😀
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- Amazon Customer
- 08-09-21
pronunciation.
pronunciation american and slightly bizarre but better than many audiobooks. on the whole enjoyable
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- Lizzie
- 13-05-22
Fun story if you can ignore the narrator
These are fun, easy listening stories BUT the narrator is a shocker! Her accents are all over the place and her pronunciation of words are irritating beyond belief! Get a better narrator… please
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-12-22
pronunciations
because the narrator is not English some pronunciations are jarring and spoil the flow of the story .
There really is no excuse for some of them and these should have been spotted before this story was allowed to be heard.
I love this series so I will perservere
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