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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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2 out of 5 stars
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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On the hottest day in living memory, Richard Mallory Tindall, the owner of a patent firm, does not return home to Cleete village. When a man is found crushed to death, Tindall's case goes from missing person to homicide. In the course of solving murder cases, Detective Inspector C. D. Sloan has seen all manner of ugly death. But there's something particularly gruesome about this one, the body crushed beneath the marble and iron of an old Saxon church tower. With rubble blocking off access to the crime scene, no one can get close enough to inspect the body.
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At this stately home, now open for public tours, visitors revel in the lush atmosphere created by its three hundred rooms, its exceptional display of fine china, its chilling dungeon with historic suits of armor on display, evoking the spirits of knights from a forgotten age. Young Michael's sister, a visitor to the mansion with their mum, presses her for an explanation of "what's a chastity belt?" while Michael fools around with one of the suits of armor....
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Who would want to kill a nun? That was the problem facing Inspector C.D. Sloan of the Berebury CID when the body of Sister Anne was found at the foot of the cellar steps at the Convent of St Anselm. Sloan soon found that interviewing half a hundred black-habited sisters as potential suspects for murder was no easy task - especially when he realised that, to him, one nun looked very much like the next, and every sister had an assumed name - and a past...
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Introducing Inspector C.D. Sloan
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5 out of 5 stars
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Berebury golf course in the county of Calleshire is an unlikely place for a murder. Set in pleasant landscape and boasting a splendid view of the town of Berebury, the golf course is more situated to fun and games than murder and mayhem. So when flirtatious golfing beginner Helen Ewell goes in search of a wayward golf ball in the dreaded "Hell's Bells" bunker she is not prepared for the horrible surprise that lies buried beneath the soft sand.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The narrator is marvelous
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 44
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful mystery
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There were two things seriously wrong when someone found Mr Meredith in the library of Ornum House and greeted him with a ‘Good morning’. For one thing, it was five o’clock in the afternoon; and for another, the greeting took the form of a murderous blow to the back of poor Mr Meredith’s head. But Inspector Sloan doesn’t discover any of this until he finds the weapon, a large primitive club, topped with an iron spike.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good story retitled
- By Barbara on 10-12-12
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Surfeit of Suspects
- By: George Bellairs
- Narrated by: David Thorpe
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 18
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story4 out of 5 stars 18
Following a mysterious explosion, the offices of Excelsior Joinery Company are no more; the three directors are killed and the peace of a quiet town in Surrey lies in ruins. When the supposed cause of an ignited gas leak is dismissed and the presence of dynamite revealed, Superintendent Littlejohn of Scotland Yard is summoned to the scene. But beneath the sleepy veneer of Evingden lies a hotbed of deep-seated grievances. Confounding Littlejohn's investigation is an impressive cast of suspicious persons, each concealing their own ax to grind.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful
- By Ms Peach on 11-09-19
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"[Montague] has a clear, well-modulated voice, which is easy to listen to, and his dignified delivery matches the cerebral nature of this mystery." (AudioFile)
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- connie
- Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
- 04-23-10
it takes a village
to make the setting for this clever & dryly humouous English cozy
a character driven who-dunnit, set just before ubiquitous technology complicated detective cozies
very well narrated (in the style of classic English who-dunnits)
nothing profound, but a very pleasant mind massage with no graphic violence or sexual content
7 of 7 people found this review helpful
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- Linda
- PITTSBURGH, PA, United States
- 10-04-13
My favorite Sloan so far
This is my favorite CD Sloan audiobook in the series so far. Perhaps I paid more attention, because this narrator is much improved over the narrator of the previous audiobooks. The plot is clever and enjoyable.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful
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Overall4 out of 5 stars
- Dana
- Knoxville, TN, United States
- 03-06-07
just a good book
I enjoyed listening to this book. I enjoy the author.
6 of 9 people found this review helpful
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- beeverd
- 09-21-18
Wonderful inspector sloan
the inspector Sloan books are so good and entertaining...the author injects sufficient humor and riviting mystery. I especially enjoyed the narrator style and delivery...
spot on!!!