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The Droitwich Deceivers
- Inspector Ravenscroft Detective Mysteries, Book 5
- Narrated by: Andrew Cullum
- Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
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Summary
AN EVOCATIVE VICTORIAN DETECTIVE STORY FULL OF CLEVER TWISTS
Droitwich, April 1890.
A nine-year-old girl vanishes without a trace from the local churchyard. Her father, the salt tycoon Sir Charles Chilton, is beside himself.
There's no price he won't pay for his daughter's safe return. AND SOMEONE OUT THERE IS COUNTING ON IT.
Sir Charles calls on Detective Inspector Ravenscroft and Constable Tom Crabb to investigate.
Meanwhile, Ravenscroft's wife Lucy meets a distraught mother. She gave her baby daughter away under duress. Now she wants her back.
The cases unravel, leading Ravenscroft and Lucy ever deeper into the darkened world of child exploitation—where lies, deceit and murder are commonplace.
CAN THEY UNCOVER THE TRUTH IN TIME TO SAVE THE ENDANGERED CHILDREN?
Perfect for fans of M.R.C. Kasasian, E.S. Thomson, Oscar DeNuriel or Karen Charlton
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- Anonymous User
- 30-12-23
Superb story teller!
Brilliantly narrated as always, his versatility with voices is astounding. Also masterfully written by this superb author!!!
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- Laurence Davidson
- 18-12-22
Another great narration by Andrew Cullum!
Andrew Cullum, breathes so much life into this series of grim Victorian 'Whodunnits'. In this episode, Kerry Tombs weaves a tad more emotion than usual into what tend to be rather wooden characters. Here, he brings greater depth to Inspector Ravenscroft and also, his wife Lucy. It would be good to see Crab 'growing' under the Ravenscroft's tutelage and his exposure to so many criminal situations! However, I do like the way Tombs avoids the temptation to introduce modern values such as liberation, equality and diversity. Victorian England was what it was - class-ridden, sexist, racist, repressed and traditional etc, by comparison with the aspirations of today. I say aspirations, as England has not really made that much progress on these fronts. And has gone backward on so many others!
I have enjoyed the series. More please!
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- anruaig
- 30-07-23
Enjoyable but predicable
An enjoyable story even though it has a very predictable plot. Very well narrated. One point of law - I thought it was illegal in the UK to marry your brother’s widow until 1921. Perhaps there some exceptions/exemptions under certain circumstances that I am not aware of.
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