
Coffin, Scarcely Used
A Flaxborough Mystery, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Simon Shepherd
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By:
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Colin Watson
In the respectable seaside town of Flaxborough, the equally respectable councillor Harold Carobleat is laid to rest. Cause of death: pneumonia.
But he is scarcely cold in his coffin before Detective Inspector Purbright, affable and annoyingly polite, must turn out again to examine the death of Carobleat's neighbour, Marcus Gwill, former prop. of the local rag, the Citizen.
This time it looks like foul play, unless a surfeit of marshmallows had led the late and rather unlamented Mr Gwill to commit suicide by electrocution. ('Power without responsibility', murmurs Purbright.) How were the dead men connected, both to each other and to a small but select band of other town worthies? Purbright becomes intrigued by a stream of advertisements Gwill was putting in the Citizen, for some very oddly named antique items....
Witty and a little wicked, Colin Watson's tales offer a mordantly entertaining cast of characters and laugh-out-loud wordplay.
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Well written and amusing
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I had a good nap while listening to this book.
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Carefully Crafted Puzzle
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Excellent, more please!
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Couldn't get into it
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Hard to follow
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I think the principle issue was the number of primary and secondary characters and the narrator’s inability to use his voice to differentiate between them (even when the gender differed).
This is the first audiobook where I felt it may have been better if I had read the kindle version. :-/
There are some snarky witticisms that can be caught if the listener is closely following.
This was my second time listening as I needed some background “noise” to work by and didn’t want to be distracted by listening to music.
I’m going to download the second book in the series and hope the experience is better.
Too many moving parts
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Perfect for Catherine Aird and Dorothy Sayers fans
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Coffin Scarcely Used
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