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This is my first time reading a novel in an audio format - & I hope I am being completely fair to this novel. If anyone has any tips for staying engaged during an audio read, let me know below! What I found (late in the read) worked for me was doing housework at the same time or sitting outside on my deck. Lying on my bed I fell asleep, on my computer I got too distracted!
Narrator Geoffrey Beevers has a rich plummy voice, perfect for reading a Golden Age mystery. For an audio, for me there was t ...more
Narrator Geoffrey Beevers has a rich plummy voice, perfect for reading a Golden Age mystery. For an audio, for me there was t ...more
Very much enjoyed this Golden Age mystery set in a country house at Christmas. A closed group of suspects with an amateur detective among the group makes for an intriguing murder mystery. And of course, Mordecai Tremaine explains all in the end bringing it to a satisfying conclusion. Great fun! I’d never heard of Duncan before but will eagerly seek out his other books now that a number are back in print.
Dec 19, 2017
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Good fun in this golden age whodunit. If a Father Christmas is murdered, is it the man intended? And perhaps more than one house guest was dressed as him and seen out in the house and garden that Xmas eve!
The GR blurb:
'A festive mystery for the holiday season: mulled wine, mince pies... and murder
When Mordecai Tremaine arrives at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame on Christmas Eve, he discovers that the revelries are in full swing in the sleepy village of Sherbroome--but so too are tensio ...more
The GR blurb:
'A festive mystery for the holiday season: mulled wine, mince pies... and murder
When Mordecai Tremaine arrives at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame on Christmas Eve, he discovers that the revelries are in full swing in the sleepy village of Sherbroome--but so too are tensio ...more
