• The Salisbury Manuscript

  • By: Philip Gooden
  • Narrated by: Tim Bruce
  • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
  • 3.8 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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The Salisbury Manuscript

By: Philip Gooden
Narrated by: Tim Bruce
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Publisher's summary

In the fog-shrouded autumn of 1873 a man dies violently while searching a burial chamber on the outskirts of the city of Salisbury. At the same time Tom Ansell, a young lawyer, arrives from London to receive a manuscript from one of the Cathedral Canons.

Felix Slater wants the compromising memoirs of his late father to be locked away until after his own death. But Slater's death comes much sooner than expected, and it is Tom who discovers the clergyman's body and comes under suspicion for his murder. The manuscript has disappeared. To clear himself, Tom must go in search of the real culprit.

©2009 Philip Gooden (P)2009 Oakhill Publishing Ltd

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"The witty narrative, laced with puns and word play so popular with this period,makes this an enjoayble racy tale." (Sunday Telegraph)

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clever, better than average Victorian mystery

-the kind in which setting and atmosphere are as important as plot. Very well narrated - Bruce voices the tale almost tongue-in-cheek. If Trollope had turned his hand to mystery, it might have turned out like this novel-- Set in a Cathedral town, it's sprinkled with late Victorian gentlemen turning their hands to natural science, ambitious clerics, dissolute gentry hanging on to the trappings of an earlier time, and a villain Thomas Hardy could have sketched.

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