• Kissing the Gunner's Daughter

  • A Chief Inspector Wexford Mystery, Book 15 (Unabridged)
  • By: Ruth Rendell
  • Narrated by: Robin Bailey
  • Length: 12 hrs
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (135 ratings)

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Kissing the Gunner's Daughter

By: Ruth Rendell
Narrated by: Robin Bailey
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Publisher's summary

The massacre at Tancred House seems at first to be the work of a burglar, panicked into killing. But Chief Inspector Wexford believes there are links with the murder of a Kingsmarkham detective some ten months earlier.
©2009 Ruth Rendell (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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One of Rendell's Best

At this point I have read over half of the novels in the Wexford series. This is a superb addition - perhaps the best in the series.

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Even better when read aloud

I love Ruth Rendell, and read this many years ago. I downloaded it for a long journey, expecting just to listen to it as a kind of background noise - instead I was transfixed! Wonderful!

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This is Literature,

as are all of Rendells books. In this one she displays her extraordinary knowledge of plant life, her descriptions are pure poetry. I admire Wexfords intellect and his integrity. Did not want to put this book down.

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Excellent

I read about this book and it definitely lived up to my expectations.
The narrator's tone and tempo were fantastic.
I will now go look for earlier books in this series.

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old but great Robin Bailey is THE wonderful narr

robin Bailey is a wonderful narrator in this Ruth Rendell classic mystery. inspector Westford is more insightful than usual.

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Interesting

Very good story, held your interest, could not wait for end to see if I was right but ending was too quick, even if I was correct.

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  • Will
  • 01-25-20

Awful narration

The voice is awful, completely monotone and makes it impossible to enjoy the story. I much preferred the narrators used for the other Ruth Rendell books.

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  • Jo
  • 01-02-22

Classic Wexford, beautifully narrated

Gently paced, with typically complex Rendell characters, this was really brought to life by Robin Bailey"s reading, so much more expressive than newer recordings, and even included the odd unedited throat clearing! It's great to have some of Rendell's books available in the Plus Catalogue, now to explore the rest of the Wexford series.

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  • Jad
  • 11-16-21

Good story and narrator

I liked this narrator. His voice suits phone speaker better than some of the more screeching voices. It was somewhat painful how long it took the detective to figure out who the killer was, as this seemed apparent early on, but a good story and characters nonetheless.

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  • Nick
  • 04-19-22

tedious beyond belief

The plot is, I'm sure, well up to Ruth Rendell's usual high standard.
However, Robin Bailey's unutterably dreary, monotone narration makes this impossible to listen to.

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  • Kim S.
  • 04-07-22

Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter

Story was ok, but didn’t like the abrupt ending or the pompous narrator! Had to listen to quite a bit more than once to work out who was who!

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  • M. H. Smith
  • 03-28-22

Narration made listening difficult

I really struggled with the narration, to the extent that I gave up with three hours to go.. he has such a plummy, drawling voice it is often hard to make out what he's saying and it becomes increasingly irritating. A great voice for the stage perhaps, but not to my taste at all for narration.

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  • Jasemin
  • 03-14-19

Tried and tried but couldn’t focus in

Unfortunately for me I just couldn’t get into the narrators voice

I knew how it would end right from the beginning, I guess because the intonation is the narration betrayed that it was either just wrong, or it was so obviously lies

I’m not articulating myself well but I just didn’t manage to engage with the book but I think it’s because of the narration. Maybe listen to a clip before you download just to see if it’s your thing

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  • richard2
  • 11-03-23

Can’t really comment on the story

as I have given up too soon to appreciate it. The narrator has a miserable, dreary way of speaking, sounding bored and cynical, which I found really alienating. Would not recommend for this reason.

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  • Valued_ Customer_No1
  • 10-12-23

Good narrator

Story is a good yarn. Not enough clues to get the ending so a Agatha let’s introduce somebody only mentioned in passing ending

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  • Allison
  • 10-03-23

Kissing the gunner’s daughter

Excellent book. Excellent narration. Kept me thinking who did it right to the end Brilliant

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  • Allie
  • 01-31-23

Great story

I love this series and wish there were more available on Audible. Wish i could listen to it again for the first time. I did guess early on who did it, but not the reason so still really enjoyed the book.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 04-11-22

Less tree descriptions more story

Beautifully read. At least one third of the descriptive padding could be dropped. Wexford quite boring, constant literary illusions, and too involved in his daughters life. The plot was quite flat in the end.

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