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A Shot in the Dark
- Narrated by: Matt Green
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
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Summary
After the notorious 'Middle Street Massacre' of 1951, when the majority of Brighton's criminals wiped one another out in a vicious battle as the local police force enjoyed a brief stop en route for an ice cream, Inspector Steine rather enjoys life as a policeman.
No criminals, no crime, no stress.
He just wishes Sergeant Brunswick would stop insisting that perhaps not every criminal was wiped out that fateful day. So it's really rather annoying when an ambitious - not to mention irritating - new Constable shows up to work and starts investigating a series of burglaries. And it's even more annoying when, after Constable Twitten is dispatched to the theatre for the night, he sits next to a vicious theatre critic who is promptly shot dead partway through the opening night of a new play. It seems Brighton may be in need of a police force after all....
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- RWG
- 06-02-23
Love this
Having thoroughly enjoyed Life at Absolute Zero I looked for more Lynne Truss stories. So pleased to have found the Brighton constabulary in the 1950s and their improbable murders. Such a good listen. Not for those looking for serious murder mysteries but if you enjoy a good story, well drawn characters, Brighton setting and gentle humour then this is pure gold.
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- TM62
- 18-08-21
Bally marvellous
Characters are loveable, story line clever and references to the era absolutely bang on. I loved it. Narrator is bally hilarious in portraying each of the main cast. Starting the next book straight away!
Bally marvellous.
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- Customer
- 13-10-23
Enjoyable comic fun
Thoroughly enjoyed the mad plot, as logical and as likely as Escher’s stairways , the comic characters and the ear-opening narration. Listen and Enjoy.
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- Denise
- 04-07-22
Loved the story lines
Nice.y narrated with characterisation voices, albeit preferred the follow on series of BBC4 casted dramatisation.
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- K
- 14-11-23
Brilliantly written
For an author who readers most associate with dry grammar, this novel was a total delight.
Not only are the charcters wonderfully conceived, there's plenty of humour and a tightly woven criminal conumdrum to tantalise the reader.
It should not come as a surprise but Lyne Truss also uses language so artfully that it has resulted in some of the most beautifully constructed sentences I have ever read.
The narrator is a good match and does a great job.
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- Julia
- 26-12-18
Good Fun
This sort of who dunnit story with great narration of the story and interpretation of the characters had some lovely laugh out loud moments.
It was a fun listen.
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- Susan Whitehead
- 31-08-19
A shot in the dark
Awful, puerile, l couldn’t listen anymore to such childish rubbish. I went straight to the end to enable me to write a review. Sorry, not for me.
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- Anonymous User
- 02-01-20
Only OK
odd pauses where they shouldn't be such as before 'but' to the extent that it breaks the flow of the reading and at least two unedited retakes.
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- Bundoodragon
- 30-08-20
Disappointing
I'm probably in the minority but this was a waste of my time. Such Irritating characters that I felt no sympathy with at all mean I shall not be looking for other books by this author or narrator. I really couldn't care what happened to any of them which is an essential for me be invested in a book. What a shame, this will be returned.
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