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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 Crime Fiction Detective Mystery Traditional Detectives Fiction Suspense
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Great story, lively (if sometimes intensely irritating!) characters. Reading slightly marred by the voices of the characters, bar one or two. But no hideous mispronunciations as so often happens in the Regency audio books

Excellent whodunnit in the best Heyer tradition

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

poor narrator

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Quite why this story has not been given to Matt Addis I cannot imagine. Some female narrators can manage male voices but this narrator is not one. Truly grating voices, ponderous tones, over-use of sniffs which were particularly repellant. The local sergeant is actually quite perceptive but this narrator gives him a "bumpkin" voice.

This is all such a shame because the story has a lot of light and shade with some loathsome characters, good comic scenes and a tragic theme and all of it killed by the narration.

Such a shame.

Bad narration of a promising story

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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.

Story OK, narrator not so good

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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.

Some characterisations uncomfortably high pitched

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