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Requiem for a Mezzo

A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

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Requiem for a Mezzo

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
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With dashing Scotland Yard Inspector Alec Fletcher at her side, Daisy is enjoying a delightful performance of Verdi's Requiem, featuring her neighbor Muriel Westlea's celebrated sister, Bettina. But when all that emerges from the doomed diva's vocal chords is a dying gasp, Daisy soon discovers that the notoriously difficult opera star had her share of adversaries; among them a smugly philandering tenor, a burly Russian bass, and even her own vocal coach husband, with whom she shared a hardly harmonious marriage.

Did one of them fatally poison the acclaimed mezzo? Or is someone else determined to see that Daisy's investigation ends on as bitter a note as Bettina's fateful last performance?

©1996 Carola Dunn (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Marriage Cosy Cosy Mysteries
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"Dunn describes 1920s London and the characters in detail and highlights the interplay between Alec and Daisy. A snug read." (Library Journal)

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another well plotted Dunn whodunnit narrated by someone who does strange things to pronunciation of the English language.

Good story fairly ghastly narration.

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the narrator? terrible. she did this really weird faux posh accent with a Canadian Wang. mispronouncing words and attempting to be upper class . for example orf as opposed to to off, I grudgingly accept, but oarfice for office.. nah!
I thought it for quite a while that there was a minor member of a royal Indian family called raj-er but no.. his name was Roger...
to sum it up feeble old fashioned sort of detective with a rubbish narration. shan't be trying anymore.

very dated

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A cross between PG Wodehouse and Agatha Christie.
Maybe not as convoluted as Murder at the Vicarage and it’s like, but the 1929s society it portrays is amusing.

The only issue I have is that the narrator tries so hard to speak with an upper crust British accent, but is let dow by “cawfee” and odd mispronunciations.
The spotted dick pudding being changed to spotted dog made me raise an eyebrow.

A perfectly delightful book, no great angst, 1920s manners and a Ukrainian who hates Russia. (!) oddly modern.

A delightful few hours listening

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I’ve just discovered these books having been put off previously by the fact that they weren’t written in the period they are set, however I’ve really enjoyed the first two I’ve encountered and will continue to read/listen to more of them. They are basically fun fluff, but are well written and researched, and as audiobooks are really good to have in in the background while working etc.

Fun

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I enjoyed the story once I got over the irritation of words being mispronounced, appalling accents and the awful narrator!

Awful Narrator!

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