Death at Wentwater Court

Library Edition (Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries)

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Carola Dunn: Death at Wentwater Court (AudiobookFormat, 2005, Blackstone Audiobooks)

mp3 cd

English language

Published April 12, 2005 by Blackstone Audiobooks.

ISBN:
978-0-7861-8102-5
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OCLC Number:
60403394

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2 stars (1 review)

This first installment of a cozy mystery series transports listeners back to the bygone era of 1923 Britain, where unflappable flapper and fledgling journalist Daisy Dalrymple daringly embarks on her first writing assignment—and promptly stumbles across a corpse.

No stranger to sprawling country estates, wealthy Daisy Dalrymple is breaking new ground in having scandalously traded silver spoon for pen and camera to cover a story for Town and Country magazine. But her planned interviews with the inhabitants of Wentwater Court give way to interrogation after suave Lord Stephen Astwick meets a dire fate on the tranquil skating pond. Armed with evidence that his fate was anything but accidental, Daisy joins forces with Scotland Yard to examine an esteemed collection of suspects and to see that the unlikely culprit doesn’t slip through their fingers just as the unfortunate Astwick slipped through the ice.

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2 stars

Oh, my good Lord.
To be honest, I may be unfairly downgrading the content, because I listened to an audiobook, whose narrator had adopted an accent that ranged Brooklyn to Cockney, by way of Ireland, Scotland and Australia, and I found it hard to stop laughing. Through the laughter, though, I did seem to find many anomalies and anachronisms, such as a southern English 1920s aristocrat adopting the Liverpudlian slang "bizzies", and his son referring to him as "guvnor".

The story is engaging enough, as a light, sub-Christie piece of froth, although filled with implausible developments, mostly about the family's willingness to allow the protagonist to nose into their life.

I can't see me bothering with others in the series.

Subjects

  • Mystery/Suspense
  • Mystery & Detective - Series
  • Fiction
  • Unabridged Audio - Fiction/Mystery
  • Mystery & Detective - Historical
  • Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths
  • Mystery & Detective - Traditional British