The Best Man to Die
An Inspector Wexford Mystery
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Ruth Rendell
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Who could have suspected that the exciting stag party for the groom would be the prelude to the murder of his close friend Charlie Hatton? And Charlie's death was only the first in a string of puzzling murders involving small-time gangsters, cheating husbands, and loose women. Now Chief Inspector Wexford and his assistant join forces with the groom to track down a killer....
Investigate more cases with Inspector Wexford.©1969 Kingsmarkham Enterprises Ltd. (P)1991 Recorded Books, LLCLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Trent's Last Case
- De: E C. Bentley
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 7 h y 3 m
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Considered by many to be the first modern mystery novel, Trent's Last Case introduces the gentleman sleuth Philip Trent, a freelance reporter and invistigator. Trent becomes involved in the case of the murder of millionaire American financier Sigsbee Manderson, slain while on holiday in England.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A real find!
- De Roxane en 06-17-10
De: E C. Bentley
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The Yellow Room
- De: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Narrado por: Liza Ross
- Duración: 8 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
As far as Carol Spencer is concerned, the war has spoiled everything. She and Don had been engaged for years and were on the verge of marriage when he was shot down in the South Pacific, leaving Carol on the verge of spinsterhood at 24. She wants to take some kind of job in the war effort, but her invalid mother demands that Carol accompany her to the family's summer home in Maine. But when they arrive at the faded mansion, they find it completely locked up. The servants are gone, the lights are dark - and there is a body in the closet.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent classic mystery by one of the original Queens of Mystery.
- De Becca T. en 12-30-23
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Heads You Lose
- Inspector Cockrill Mysteries Series, Book 1
- De: Christianna Brand
- Narrado por: Derek Perkins
- Duración: 5 h y 56 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 31
As war rages in Europe, the citizens of London flee to the country. At Pigeonsford, a group of guests plays cards - but Grace Morland knows the strong emotions that lurk beneath the placid social surface. She's painfully in love with Stephen Pendock, the squire of Pigeonsford, but Pendock's smitten with young beauty Francesca Hart. One afternoon, Fran debuts a new hat, and Grace's jealousy gets the better of her. She exclaims, "I wouldn't be seen dead in a ditch in a thing like that!" She will soon be proven wrong. Grace is found dead with the hat on her head.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Started out with promise….
- De claire b cotts en 04-30-24
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Tragedy at Law
- De: Cyril Hare
- Narrado por: Chris MacDonnell
- Duración: 10 h y 3 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 35
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 32
Tragedy at Law follows a rather self-important High Court judge, Mr. Justice Barber, as he moves from town to town presiding over cases in the Southern England circuit. When an anonymous letter arrives for Barber, warning of imminent revenge, he dismisses it as the work of a harmless lunatic. But then a second letter appears, followed by a poisoned box of the judge's favorite chocolates, and he begins to fear for his life. Enter barrister and amateur detective Francis Pettigrew, a man who was once in love with Barber's wife and has never quite succeeded in his profession.
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1 out of 5 stars
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BORING!
- De Amazon Customer en 06-23-19
De: Cyril Hare
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Fallen Into the Pit
- An Inspector Felse Mystery
- De: Ellis Peters
- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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Helmut Schauffler, a young Nazi working in the small English village of Comerford, sets out to play upon the post-war sensibilities and fears by terrorizing his new neighbors.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A peek into an earlier time.
- De ShySusan en 11-28-11
De: Ellis Peters
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The Fox
- Ice and Crime Series, Book 1
- De: Sólveig Pálsdóttir, Quentin Bates - translator
- Narrado por: Ann Richardson
- Duración: 7 h y 49 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 30
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 26
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 26
Hoping to put behind him tragedy in his professional life and to resolve the turmoil in his personal life, Reykjavik police officer Guðgeir Fransson has moved as far away from home as he can, marking time in a dead-end job in a small town in eastern Iceland.
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4 out of 5 stars
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4
- De Donna en 11-24-21
De: Sólveig Pálsdóttir, y otros
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Murder Has a Motive
- De: Francis Duncan
- Narrado por: John Curless
- Duración: 9 h y 44 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 76
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 69
When Mordecai Tremaine emerges from the train station, murder is the last thing on his mind. But he has never been able to resist anything in the nature of a mystery - and a mystery is precisely what awaits him in the village of Dalmering. Rehearsals for the local amateur dramatic production are in progress. When the star of the show is found dead, the spotlight falls on Mordecai, whose reputation in the field of crime-solving precedes him.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Oh dear....not what I’d hoped for
- De Kathi en 02-05-18
De: Francis Duncan
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A Pint of Murder
- Madoc and Janet Rhys Mysteries Series, Book 1
- De: Charlotte MacLeod
- Narrado por: William Dufris
- Duración: 5 h y 56 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 18
In a quiet small town in New Brunswick, old Agatha Treadway makes one last cranky complaint to her niece before dying on her kitchen floor. The cause seems to be a jar of contaminated string beans, which sat on Agatha's basement shelf for years before becoming her final meal. The town doctor calls it a tragic accident - and a warning to all who can their own vegetables - but Agatha's neighbor, the intrepid Janet Wadman, knows better. Agatha was an expert canner, which means the beans must have been placed there by someone else. This was murder.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Pint of murder
- De Danny Harr en 05-11-24
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The Best Crime Stories Ever Told
- De: Dorothy L. Sayers - editor
- Narrado por: Robin Bloodworth, Suehyla El Attar
- Duración: 20 h y 55 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 35
When acclaimed mystery writer Dorothy L. Sayers first began compiling anthologies of the best crime stories in the 1920s and ’30s, the genre was in the flush of its first golden age. While it is hard to imagine today - after every possible mystery plot has been told, retold, subverted, and played straight again by hundreds of writers over nearly a century - in Sayers’s day there were still twists that had never been seen, and machinations of crime that would shock even jaded Jazz Age fans.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Lot of duds, some gems
- De Regina en 11-09-13
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The Chimney Sweeper’s Boy
- De: Barbara Vine
- Narrado por: Jenny Sterlin
- Duración: 15 h y 57 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 110
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 97
When literary celebrity Gerald Candless suddenly dies, the beautiful façade he has carefully created begins to crumble. Behind the vision of the happy family on the English seashore lie Candless’ inexplicable cruelty toward his wife, his manic devotion to his daughters, and the mysterious sources of his fiction. To assuage her grief, his loving daughter Sarah begins a memoir project. But it soon becomes an obsessive search for identity. As Sarah digs into her father’s secret past, the startling logic of his puzzling behavior is revealed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of my Top 20 books
- De lyl en 01-01-13
De: Barbara Vine
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Bliss Uncovered
- DI Bliss, Book 0.5
- De: Tony J. Forder
- Narrado por: Greg Wagland
- Duración: 4 h y 30 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 28
Fresh out of uniform, DC Jimmy Bliss finds himself at the centre of an undercover sting. Enlisted by a crew of villains to crack a safe, he fears his cover is blown when he’s seen in the wrong place at the wrong time. But on the night of the job, things run smoothly enough until the gang leader changes the location of the heist. As the job spirals out of control, Bliss has to trust his instincts and buy some time. There’s just one problem: he has no idea if his team know what has become of him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent narration of a very good novel.
- De J-me en 09-28-23
De: Tony J. Forder
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Fall of Angels
- An Inspector Redfyre Mystery
- De: Barbara Cleverly
- Narrado por: Steven Crossley
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 183
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 163
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 164
Great Britain, 1923: When Detective Inspector John Redfyre is invited to attend the annual St. Barnabas College Christmas concert in his Aunt Henrietta's stead, he is expecting a quiet evening. But he arrives to witness a minor scandal: Juno Proudfoot, the trumpeter of the headlining musical duo, is a woman, and a young one at that - practically unheard of in conservative academic circles. When she suffers a near-fatal fall after the close of the show, Redfyre must consider whether someone was trying to kill her.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Quite Liked This Audiobook
- De John en 06-06-18
De: Barbara Cleverly
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An Occupied Grave
- Brock & Poole Series, Book 1
- De: A.G. Barnett
- Narrado por: Nigel Patterson
- Duración: 5 h
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General4 out of 5 stars 409
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 364
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 364
When mourners gather in the village of Lower Gladdock, the grave is found to be already occupied. The victim is soon linked to a tragedy that tore the village apart five years ago and is handed over to the Bexford police to solve. Detective Sergeant Guy Poole is hoping to put his traumatic past behind him and settle into his new station at Bexford. Now history is threatening to raise its head again, and he has a murder case to contend with. Detective Inspector Sam Brock has a new recruit to take under his wing, and he's determined this one isn't going to die.
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3 out of 5 stars
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I think I bought this in a two for one sale.
- De Mark en 02-14-19
De: A.G. Barnett
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The Girl Next Door
- A Novel
- De: Ruth Rendell
- Narrado por: Ric Jerrom
- Duración: 9 h y 58 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 191
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 168
In the waning months of the second World War, a group of children discover an earthen tunnel in their neighborhood outside London. Throughout the summer of 1944 - until one father forbids it - the subterranean space becomes their "secret garden," where the friends play games and tell stories. Six decades later, beneath a house on the same land, construction workers uncover a tin box containing two skeletal hands, one male and one female.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Kept unfolding more twists and turns
- De Happy Helena en 02-08-15
De: Ruth Rendell
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Best Man to Die
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- HazardZetForward
- 04-09-25
Plot swings dominate
Dialogues shifting from nits to leaps makes an unearned fog that clears only due to an import.
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- DEBRA
- 11-29-11
Wexford is back again and in fine form!
Inspector Wexford is back again and in fine form! Along with his ever present, righteously repressed, dour partner Burden, they plod along to solve yet another puzzling murder. For Wexford fans its a must "listen."
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- Anonymous User
- 05-23-23
very engaging story with excellent narration.
very engaging story with excellent narration. kept me interested and guessing right up to the end
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- Frances
- 12-07-24
Good story
Liked the characters and the weaving of plot and people. Anchored in time and place, it is an absorbing read.
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- Kathi
- 02-24-13
Classic who-dunnit
What did you love best about The Best Man to Die?
Ruth Rendell writes in the classic mystery style, where the clues get revealed progressively with solid good work by the police. inspector Wexford is an old-fashioned inspector who solves the mystery through getting to understand the suspects' lives and motives. In this one, there are two cases which don't initially seem to have anything in common, though of course, they do.
I would also like to say that Davina Porter was great as narrator. I've listened to a couple that I felt she didn't do as well, so was not sure if I would enjoy this one. But she was perfect! Great job bringing life and interest to the reading and also differentiating the voices. This could have been a dull book read by someone less talented. I'm really happy that I can sing her praises here. The ones I heard and didn't care for so much must (I'm delighted to say) have just been flukes.
Highly recommend both book and reader!
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-10-15
Formulaic British Murder Mystery
Would you try another book from Ruth Rendell and/or Davina Porter?
No
How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Make the main characters more interesting
Do you think The Best Man to Die needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?
No. This is a crime formula book, a modern day Hercule Poirot without the panache and flair
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- Emil Grancagnolo
- 03-11-24
Meh...
I kept trying to find interest but there did not seem to be any it was very standard Fare... standard writing standard character standard plot standard narration. Just didn't move me sorry your mileage may vary 🙄
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