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Just my luck
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I Do So Love This Pair Of Sleuths..!!..Hilarious Highbrow Hijinks..!!
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Murder at Blackburn Hall
- High Society Lady Detective, Book 2
- By: Sara Rosett
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Klett
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
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September, 1923. Despite closing her first case, high society lady detective Olive Belgrave hasn’t found a new client. She’s taken a job as a hat model to pay for her poky boarding house room. But then a job offer comes her way: make discreet inquires about a famous author who’s disappeared. Olive travels to the English countryside to hunt for him.
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Charles refuses to follow his destiny unless his wife can be Queen, and public opinion suggests the people would rather have Jordan than Camilla on the throne. But no sooner has Prince William offered himself as the next monarch than one Graham Cracknall of Ruislip emerges, claiming to be Charles and Camilla's secret love child, and therefore the rightful heir to the crown.
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- connie
- Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada
- 05-28-08
move over Jeeves
If you like British literary comedy or campy dystopia satire, this is worth a try. It took an hour of play for me to warm to the novel and even longer to tolerate the talking dogs, but in the end I really enjoyed ths listen, canine characters included. The novel even softened my socialist distaste for the Monarchy.
If situations like "The Chancellor wondered if he had enough energy to stage a coup" in reaction to the "war on dog terror" appeal to you, download this. It's similar in tone to "The Messiah of Morris Avenue" with the Royal Family instead of Jesus.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
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- Nicholas
- 01-21-08
Enjoyable
Okay, so it's Sue Townsend, not Proust or Balzac, but this is a funny and heart-warming imaginary tale.
The story becomes believable in these times of eroded civil liberties. Maybe a 21st Century Prime Minister could manipulate Parliament to create concentration camps for undesirables and exile the Royal Family. Ms Townsend certainly does make it believable.
The narration does give you the mental image of Prince Charles fretting over the chickens he keeps in the back yard of his council-house garden, so proud of the washing up bowl he bought in the Pound Shop earlier that day. The rest of the Royal Family are similarly brought to life in the setting of a fenced in estate comprising of wife-beaters, benefit-cheats and chavs.
There is a real working-class grit that shows both the love and the ghastliness of council-estate Britain that is accentuated by the contrast between the underclass and the Royals that are forced to share their existence.
The story is engaging, sad, cheery, depressing and totally believeable in the same way as Orwell's 1984.
I could barely stop listening.
11 of 11 people found this review helpful
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- Kirstine
- 05-10-08
Entertaining, but a bit savage
There are many funny scenes and moments in this book read with great gusto by Patricia Gallimore. Listeners to the Archers (she's Pat Archer) will be surprised to hear her having to swear like a trooper throughout the reading! The story is rather like a light-hearted combination of Orwell's 1984 crossed with a touch of Animal Farm. I enjoyed the story but have misgivings about the cruelty of some of the satire directed at the Royal family. I'm no Royalist, far from it, but while the lampooned politicians in the book are fictitious, the Royals are real people who can't answer back. I particularly disliked the depiction of Prince Phillip as an incontinent and demented inmate of a care home.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful
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- Anonymous User
- 09-12-19
Reader put me off
Great book - couldn’t finish as the reader was so annoying it made me cringe. Truly annoying
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- Lesley Goodman
- 12-21-18
Mildly amusing
Voices were over the top and irritating. I struggled with this book. I have listened to it twice, it's mildly amusing. Not sure I could recommend it.
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- rossi46
- 03-15-14
ROYAL RUBBISH
Off with their heads and save paper. A lot of utter nonsense not my idea of a Republic. Guess my Scottish sense of humour prefers something more gutsy.
1 of 4 people found this review helpful