Picture Miss Seeton

A Miss Seeton Mystery, Book 1

De: Heron Carvic

Narrado por: Phyllida Nash

When Miss Seeton walks out after a performance of Carmen and witnesses a real-life stabbing, all she can recall is a shadowy figure. But how could she have guessed that her latest artistic endeavor is a picture-perfect portrait of the killer? Her sketch puts her in a perilous position, for back at her recently inherited cottage in Plummergen village, she's fated to be a sitting duck...for murder most foul!

Meet Miss Emily D. Seeton: retired art teacher Miss Seeton steps in where Scotland Yard stumbles. Armed with only her sketch pad and umbrella, she is every inch an eccentric English spinster and the most lovable and unlikely master of detection.

©2016 The Beneficiaries of the Literary Estate of Heron Carvic (P)2017 Prelude Books Ltd

Love this classic, old-style cozy mystery of the battling brolly

Miss Seeton, an excellent cozy mystery series. Why not record more of the many books remaining in this series? The quality of this recording is not ideal, very low volume

Been waiting for this series in audible for years!

Would you try another book from Heron Carvic and/or Phyllida Nash?

yes-narration much better in 2nd book

What other book might you compare Picture Miss Seeton to and why?

Miss Fortune mysteries-mystery and comedy together

How could the performance have been better?

narration seems a little dull-like narrator is monotone and bored

Was Picture Miss Seeton worth the listening time?

not really -very disappointed with narration

Any additional comments?

So glad to hear this series on audio-loved reading the series-hope narrator gets better
though

Entertaining yet still a gritty edge

Good deal of dry and also broad humor while characters are still faced with a good deal of real peril! Really enjoyable and well drawn characters. The scenes with the Sergeant! Too funny! Miss Seeton is part Miss Marple part Mary Poppins part the indomitable practical aunt who can be depending on to understand. She also does yoga and is eminently sensible. The psychic bit is subtle--no wind chimes and incense but more something that comes out when she draws someone. I'm not a fan of broadly supernatural books with ghosts etc. Miss Seeton's gift is very believeable. Looking forward to the next one!

The Remarkable Miss Seeton

Delightful. Original. A pleasure to listen to. Miss Seeton is a force to be reckoned with.

Armed with an umbrella

Any additional comments?

I selected this audiobook due to Phyllida Nash's narration.- perfect.

The story originally started out with a very 'golden era' mystery feel to it. Miss Seeton is not golden era, she's an elderly, ladylike, spinster in a more modern time who has psychic drawing, as in artistic, powers, practices yoga, and has an umbrella as her lucky talisman.

Carvic repeatedly refers to "Alice in Wonderland" throughout the book - I eventually made the connection - which explains why the book has a slightly offbeat, Madhatter, tone to it. The ending has that same offbeat feel, it doesn't resolve the question, "What happened to the body in the cupboard?".

Extra content others may like to know about before handing to your teen: Carvic has his villain in the book ruthlessly ending someone's life (I wasn't prepared for it, the focus was on Miss Seeton's plight, the author just tossed it down the 'rabbit hole'). The story centres around drugs, their pushers and victims.