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Have His Carcase

Lord Peter Wimsey, Book 8

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Have His Carcase

By: Dorothy L. Sayers
Narrated by: Jane McDowell
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The best of the golden age crime writers, praised by all the top modern writers in the field including P. D. James and Ruth Rendell, Dorothy L. Sayers created the immortal Lord Peter Wimsey.

In his eighth appearance (and the second book featuring Harriet Vane), he solves a murder on a deserted English beach. With an introduction by Elizabeth George.

A young woman falls asleep on a deserted beach and wakes to discover the body of a man whose throat has been slashed from ear to ear...

The young woman is the celebrated detective novelist Harriet Vane, once again drawn against her will into a murder investigation in which she herself could be a suspect. Lord Peter Wimsey is only too eager to help her clear her name.

©1932 The Trustees of Anthony Fleming (deceased) (P)2015 Hodder & Stoughton Classics Crime Fiction Detective Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Traditional Detectives Fiction Crime Murder

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"She combined literary prose with powerful suspense, and it takes a rare talent to achieve that. A truly great storyteller." (Minette Walters)
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A good story, told with Sayers’ characteristic wit and charm. Only downside was the breaking of the cipher in chap 23 (?) which consisted of an interminable list of letters and incomprehensible charts. Good in print - a disaster in audio.

Classic Wimsey

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DLS’s stories are old favourites of mine, read and re-reread many, many, times. These Jane McDowell readings are accurate and the French well rendered but the lady, hard though she tries, has a poor command of the idiomatic. She rather breathlessly renders many phrases with incorrect emphasis. Many an old-fashioned phrase is less than perfectly interpreted. Rehearsal and editing might help. A great pleasure tinged with irritation.

Wonderful adventure, accurately but poorly read.

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Who on earth in the production team thought it a good idea to have a woman reading a male lead character? JM has totally ruined the entire wimsey series with her utterly incompetent, mediocre and downright inept performance. She truly lacks even the basic ability despite having a clear voice. Cadence, inflection and character nuances are all down the toilet with this infuriating woman. Why does she insist on ruining the pace with her slow, deliberate, plodding speed?! She cannot get to grips with wimseys style which is witty, wry and nuanced. The dialogue interchanges between wimsey and HV are just painful to endure.
Thank God the books are being done again by the other chap, I hope he does the whole series, then all the rubbish by Mcdowell can be deleted. Don't buy the Mcdowell narrations, buy the other ones far far superior

Ruined by Mcdowell

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Enjoyable , but a bit long winded I prefer her other Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane books .

One of my favourite authors

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OK but timetables and clue solving been read out is terribly tedious. Sayers seems to have had a fondness for that type of thing.

Long winded.

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Need to say that this reading is better than some of earlier ones in series...thank goodness! Less "affected" and hence more convincing!

Better read than other books in series

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A brilliant story let down by lacklustre reading. A shame. No difference in character voices.

Average narrator, great story.

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This narrator simply doesn't work. Detracts from a superb story. What happened to the Carmichael recording?

Wrong narrator!

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A very strange choice of narrator for this series. She has an irritatingly monotonous tone and although her Harriet Vane voice is alright, her Peter Wimsey voice is dreadful.

Poor narration

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Who on earth thought this narrator appropriate for this book? Ian Carmichael was the perfect narrator. Edward Petheridge would be fine. This person, no doubt good in her own sphere, has no idea of the tone or language required for a 1930s classic detective novel.

Rotten narrator

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