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Chapter and Verse

By: Ngaio Marsh
Narrated by: Julia Franklin
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A short story from the British Library Crime Classic collection Murder by the Book.

Cryptic inscriptions in an antique Bible appear to record three gruesome deaths that took place in a quiet English village in 1779. Nearly 200 years later, a fourth person is found dead under similarly violent circumstances. As the investigation unfolds, suspicions are roused by the parallels with other events in the village’s history, and the book becomes key to unravelling a more than one mystery.

©1973 Ngaio Marsh (P)2022 Isis Publishing Ltd Crime Fiction Detective Mystery Traditional Detectives Fiction Crime Village Suspense
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This may be a good story. I couldn’t tell. The reading was incomprehensible. Seriously problematic. Read too quickly; hit consonants so they exploded and eclipsed the actual words. Painful to listen.
I have never left a review. Normally willing to adjust to whatever reader I get. This is an awful performance and if I could return it I would!

Excruciating awful narrator.

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