Death in Berlin

De: M. M. Kaye

Narrado por: Kate Udall

Miranda Brand is visiting Germany for what is supposed to be a month's vacation. But from the moment that Brigadier Brindley relates the story about a fortune in lost diamonds - a story in which Miranda herself figures in an unusual way - the vacation atmosphere becomes transformed into something more ominous. And when murder strikes on the night train to Berlin, Miranda finds herself unwillingly involved in a complex chain of events that will soon throw her own life into peril. Set against a background of war-scarred Berlin in the early 1950s, Death in Berlin is a consummate mystery from one of the finest storytellers of our time.

©1955, 1983 M.M. Kaye (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Good story

What made the experience of listening to Death in Berlin the most enjoyable?

the story itself made it enjoyable. The reader was infinitely better than the reader of A Death In Kashmir.

Who was your favorite character and why?

The heroine of course

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

The reader was good,but I'm still looking for that cultured British accent

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

The dramatic ending in the old house

Any additional comments?

that is all

Post War Berlin...

Complex plot, re-creates British zone Berlin, army couples. Not my favorite M.M. Kaye. Probably somewhat autobiographical.

Good Old Fashioned Mystery

An interesting complex story ...very enjoyable. I had read most of MM Kaye books many years ago. But This is the first one I listened to. The narrator was very good. The writing style is one that depends on character development and plot rather than the modern novels use of graphic language and unnecessary sexual entanglements to advance a weak plot.
Well worth my credit.

Excellent Suspense!

What an amazing mystery story. They just don't write them as well these days. A trip with her cousin Robert and his wife to post-war Berlin turns out to be a nightmare of suspicion for Miranda.
Her forgotten past follows her with one murder after another. And Miranda is always caught with blood on her hands! The cool German policeman shadows her and the others in her company, but people are not who they seem to be.
Why do so many dark secrets haunt Miranda. Who can she trust? She thinks the policeman is safe, but is she right?
Exquisite tension fills most of this book from cover to cover, with known and unknown terrors.

Wonderful

Elocution and style in reading make this a yummy murder mystery. I love MM Kaye!

Why these narrators

Why oh why have American actors been employed to read M M Kaye's quintessentially English books. Yes they are all set overseas, but the heroines are all Brits or raised there yet for some reason the publisher has chosen to allow the bastardisation of their accents. It's a travesty of what they could have been and of what the original recordings were. I would have bought this whole set and the two great Indian sagas, but for most of them I can't even get through the sample without cringing. My advice - if you ever heard the old recordings by Virginia McKenna don't even try these - it's traumatising!

Not Far Pavilions but fun!

MM Kaye was not as deft at writing mysteries as she was at historical romance- and she slips into that style sometimes when POV suddenly shifts. But the story was creepy and twisty and most important the characters were a mix of familiar and interesting. Reader was great!

Slow. Dated. Boring

Despite the beauty of her long romantic "Pavilion" tale, this story although situated in post war Berlin uses little of its drama. Unlike the "Third Man " we get nice middle class British women daintily dealing with housekeeping problems while bodies appear. They're saved and taken care of by the smart handsome detective who explains it to them in the last chapter. Just read the last chapter where the smart detective explains to the simple woman who has been stumbling cluelessly through it.