Murder for Christmas
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Narrated by:
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Geoffrey Beevers
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By:
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Francis Duncan
About this listen
A classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder.
Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome, at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame.
Arriving on Christmas Eve, he finds that the revelries are in full flow - but so, too, are tensions amongst the assortment of guests. Midnight strikes, and the partygoers discover that it's not just presents nestling under the tree...there's a dead body, too. A dead body that bears a striking resemblance to Father Christmas.
With the snow falling and the suspicions flying, it's up to Mordecai to sniff out the culprit - and prevent someone else from getting murder for Christmas.
©2016 Francis Duncan (P)2016 Random House AudiobooksListeners also enjoyed...
Critic reviews
Guessing to the last!
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Guessed the murderer
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Excellent for a Christmas read
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the mysterious amateur detective
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What about Geoffrey Beevers’s performance did you like?
At the beginning of the book I was not sure if I liked Mr Beevers voice, but very quickly I became attuned to it, so that by Chapter two I found him east to listen to; by the end I could have listened to him for much longer.In fact it was because Geoffrey Beevers is the reader for "Murder has a Motive" that prompted me to download it
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Any additional comments?
I have read crime novels for many years but until Audible recommended "Murder for Christmas" I had never heard of Francis Duncan. I am glad I have followed their advice and shall read the rest of his works when they are re-published...But only if Geoffrey Beevers reads them!I wonder what other works by unfashionable authors are waiting to be re-discovered?
Best book for quite a while
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Great story
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riveting!
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Purple prose, but well narrated.
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If you could sum up Murder for Christmas in three words, what would they be?
Surprisingly entertaining.Who was your favorite character and why?
Mordecia as he is the opposite of most detective stars of these kind of books.Which scene did you most enjoy?
The arrival of Mordecia as it set the scene of something being wrong before he even gets to the isolated contry house. The scene is set very well with almost everything contributing to the feeling that something is wrong, even his stopping for a cup of tea.Did you have an emotional reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
Not particularly apart from the general feeling of relaxed listening knowing it would be resolved even if you are feeling too lazy to try and figure it out first.Any additional comments?
I was slightly put off by criticism of the narrator as there are a few narrators (unfortunately always picked for lesser known glolden age stories) who are terible. Someone said he was a posh monotone. Yes he was posh but so were the characters so he fitted the scene perfectly. Not a huge variety of tone but enough to make sense and set the scene, much better than some overly pronounced narrators I have heard. All in all a good and enjoyable Christmas story.Just right for the season
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Easy listening
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