
Blotto, Twinks and the Maharajah's Jewel
Blotto and Twinks, Book 10
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Narrated by:
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Simon Brett
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By:
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Simon Brett
About this listen
Anyone for cricket - and a spot of burglary?
An idle conversation on the merits of the glorious game with an old Etonian chum is just the excuse Blotto needs to put himself forward for a cricket tour to foreign climes...and so begins the next adventure for our intrepid duo, where the action takes them to India where, as everyone knows, the finest cricket players hail from - as well as the world's most skilled jewel thieves....
The Dowager Duchess has no problems in letting her two children go to the subcontinent as having her beautiful daughter Twinks married off to a massively rich Maharaja offers the Dowager Duchess the prospect of a permanent solution to the cash-draining maintenance of the Tawcester Towers plumbing.
So Twinks joins Blotto on a steamer bound for India, one that is full of young women desperate to marry well there - only once having encountered the dashing Blotto, a lot of them fancy the idea of getting married before they reach their destination. Unbeknownst to the siblings, also on the ship is the international jewel thief Archie Montmorency, passing himself off as one of Blotto's cricketing entourage. His real mission though is to steal the diamond which adorns the turban of the Maharajah of Koorbleimee.
©2021 Simon Brett (P)2021 Hachette Audio UKCritic reviews
"A new Simon Brett is an event for mystery fans." (P. D. James)
"One of British crime's most assured craftsmen.... Crime writing just like in the good old days, and perfect entertainment." (Guardian)
"Few crime writers are so enchantingly gifted." (Sunday Times)
First time reading ,maybe the last
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I have enjoyed numerous works written and read by the author, but this one sounds as if it was hurried out and recorded while the reader was suffering the after effects of a cold
This is the first of his I've not given 5 stars across the board.
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