Death of an Airman cover art

Death of an Airman

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

Death of an Airman

By: Christopher St John Sprigg
Narrated by: Peter Wickham
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £15.99

Buy Now for £15.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

George Furnace, flight instructor at Baston Aero Club, dies instantly when his plane crashes into the English countryside. People who knew him are baffled - Furnace was a first-rate pilot, and the plane was in perfect condition - and the inquest records a verdict of death by misadventure.

An Australian visitor to the aero club, Edwin Marriott, Bishop of Cootamundra, suspects that the true story is more complicated. Could this be a dramatic suicide - or even murder? Together with Inspector Bray of Scotland Yard, the intrepid bishop must uncover a cunning criminal scheme.

©2015 Introduction Martin Edwards (P)2016 Soundings Cosy Detective Mystery Traditional Detectives Fiction Aviation Crime

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Murder's a Swine cover art
These Names Make Clues cover art
The Cask cover art
The Paddington Mystery cover art
Death of an Author cover art
The Division Bell Mystery cover art
Inspector French’s Greatest Case cover art
Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventures: Books 1-3: A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia, A Case of Murder in Mayfair, A Case of Conspiracy in Clerkenwell cover art
The White Priory Murders cover art
The Theft of the Iron Dogs cover art
How Briggs Died cover art
The Widow of Bath cover art
Sexton Blake on the Home Front cover art
Death on the Down Beat cover art
Murder on the Lusitania cover art
The Blitz Detective cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
The setting in the early days of flying was as interesring as the plot and characters. i hope I can find the rest of Sprigg's detective stories

Enjoyable and unusual story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Clever, twisting plot set at a flying club in the 1930s. The background of flying feels really authentic. The story is definitely plot driven. The characters are there to suit the plot but are interesting (though not great) for all that.
I recommend this if you enjoy a good puzzle to which you can see no resolution...... I can see why Dorothy Sayers enthused about this young writer. I am now going to check if Audible has recorded any others.

Enjoyable

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Wonderful narration matching the energetic, quirky, inventive plot with its wit and verve. Some highly entertaining characters and nicely realised dialogue. Thank goodness this little gem has been rescued to such good effect.. Its young author was quite a comet- a philosopher poet (under the name Caudwell) as well as an incisive mystery writer. More please!

Sparkling

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I enjoyed this story, as I like the old fashioned style of "who dunnit". However, my preference is more for the Agatha Christie style, where you get to know the characters, rather than this sort where you're following all the clues. Having said that, this is good fun to listen to with some twists and turns and even a little romance. Well worth a listen.

Very factual

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.