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  • Death at the Dance: An Addictive Historical Cozy Mystery

  • A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery, Book 2
  • By: Verity Bright
  • Narrated by: Karen Cass
  • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (647 ratings)

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Death at the Dance: An Addictive Historical Cozy Mystery

By: Verity Bright
Narrated by: Karen Cass
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A masked ball, a dead body, a missing diamond necklace and a suspicious silver candlestick? Sounds like a case for Lady Eleanor Swift!

England, 1920. Lady Eleanor Swift, adventurer extraordinaire and reluctant amateur detective, is taking a break from sleuthing. She’s got much bigger problems: Eleanor has two left feet, nothing to wear and she’s expected at the masked ball at the local manor. Her new beau Lance Langham is the host, so she needs to dazzle.

Surrounded by partygoers with painted faces, pirates, priests and enough feathers to drown an ostrich, Eleanor searches for a familiar face. As she follows a familiar pair of long legs up a grand staircase, she’s sure she’s on Lance’s trail. But she opens the door on a dreadful scene: Lance standing over a dead Colonel Puddifoot, brandishing a silver candlestick, the family safe wide open and empty.

Moments later, the police burst in and arrest Lance for murder, diamond theft and a spate of similar burglaries. But Eleanor is convinced her love didn’t do it, and with him locked up in prison, she knows she needs to clear his name.

Something Lance lets slip about his pals convinces Eleanor the answer lies close to home. Accompanied by her faithful sidekick Gladstone the bulldog, she begins with Lance’s friends - a set of fast driving, even faster drinking, high-society types with a taste for mischief. But after they start getting picked off in circumstances that look a lot like murder, Eleanor is in a race against time to clear Lance’s name and avoid another brush with death....

Fans of Agatha Christie, T E Kinsey and Downton Abbey will adore this tremendously fun cozy whodunnit, full of mystery, murder and intrigue!

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Well written, but fast reader.

Enjoyed the story but the reader read kind of fast so I had to slow it down just a little bit. Still, well worth it.

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Exciting

Another great mystery. The characters are truly intriguing and getting to know everyone better as this series continues

Really like learning snippets about her uncle and Clifford. There is an entire series there I think!

The narrator is perfect!

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I love this series!

It’s like Agatha Christie meets Wodehouse! I really can’t get enough! On to the third.

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Great story to listen too

A fun adventure to be had when listening to death at the dance. I am really enjoying Eleanor, Lancelot and especially Clifford.

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Fantastic!

I love this heroine. She is mad dash perfection. And balanced perfectly by the inimitable Clifford

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Wonderful narrator!

Tells the tale rather than making it sound like she's "reading". Interesting voicing for the various characters. Made the story really come alive!

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Fun whodunnit

My favorite narrator, I believe she could read the back of a cereal box and make it sound interesting

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Very clever

The humor laced through the dialogue makes the mystery so much fun. I would love to meet Lady Eleanor and her butler in person.

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Great fun and an excellent mystery

Characters are well drawn and fun. Lots of good relationships and a taste of that era with lots of humour and excellent narration by Karen Cass

A most entertaining cozy mystery

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fun and clever

fun as you get used to Elie--the main characters grow on you and become quite loveable





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