
The Cheltenham Square Murder
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Narrated by:
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Gordon Griffin
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By:
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John Bude
In the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its 10 houses. One summer's evening the square's rivalries and allegiances are disrupted by a sudden and unusual death - an arrow to the head, shot through an open window at no. 6. Unfortunately for the murderer, an invitation to visit had just been sent by the crime writer Aldous Barnet, staying with his sister at no. 8, to his friend Superintendent Meredith. Three days after his arrival, Meredith finds himself investigating the shocking murder. Six of the square's inhabitants are keen members of the Wellington Archery Club, but if Meredith and Long thought that the case was going to be easy to solve, they were wrong....
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A tantalizing plot!
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Great Cozy!
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Was good to listen to while dozing to sleep
Not a bad cozy mystery
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Then again, there’s this sort of book where you understand why it dropped into obscurity for decades.
The chief inspector is no omniscient or even charming egghead. He writes a lot of pros and cons lists. He has a lot of sticktuitiveness. But he lacks the charm and quirks of the classic detective hero.
There are very few interesting characters and quite a few tropes who are quite predictable—the bickering spinster sisters, the masculine single woman who cares only for dogs, a selfish stockbroker. And although this takes place in a charming part of England, little physical description or sense of place unlike the books of ERC Lorac, for instance, who makes up for slow moving plots with a lot of precise and evocative scene setting and characterization.
The narrator Gordon Griffin is excellent as always. But I just wish he had better material to work with!
Implausible Plot, Slow Detective Work
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Very Entertaining Book
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