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Lord Peter Views the Body

Lord Peter Wimsey Book 4

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Lord Peter Views the Body

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. He made his fifth appearance in this brilliant collection of ingenious short stories.

One solution requires expertise in fine wines; another calls on his knowledge of fine art. Lord Peter has the knack of being on the spot at just the right time to spot a thief or blackmail a blackmailer. Or even prevent a murder... Whatever the occasion, the aristocratic detective uses his razor-sharp mind and unerring instincts to unmask the guilty and go to the aid of their victims.

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Download the accompanying reference guide.©1928 Trustees of Anthony Fleming (deceased) (P)2014 Hodder & Stoughton Classics Crime Fiction Detective Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Fiction Crime

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It's a real pity, but despite Jane McDowell's beautiful speaking voice, her really strange emphasis on words rather spoils the reading of this book. I'm hoping it doesn't persist in the longer books because I see they are all read by her. She sometimes gets the emphasis and intonation spot on, but far too often (about half the time) she shortens words that should be elongated, puts an odd emphasis on the wrong word in the sentence, pronounces names such as "Hartman" as two words ("hart" then "man"), or cuts short a word part way through a sentence, so that as a listener you are brought out of the story. This even happens when the narrative actually tells you how the sentence should be read! Really disappointing, particularly given the price.

Narration spoils a good set of short stories

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Short story format is very good

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She really should know howw to pronounce 'blackguard'!! = 'blaggard'

Mispronouciation!

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Excruciatingly bad attempt at a lowland Scots accent ….painfully bad. Kirkcudbright is pronounced ‘Kircoobri’ and nobody there has an accent remotely like Maggie and Jock

Good stories, terrible narration

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Stories are great but narration awful. Have tried to listen several times but every time the narration puts me off!

Desperate listener

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Loved the stories once I got past the dreadful way it was read. Does this woman have any idea how punctuation works, or how to give an oral performance? Painful to listen to...

Great stories, poor reading.

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This is the fourth or fifth Lord Peter Wimsey / Sayers book I've listened to. I use them chiefly to relax in evenings and try to get off to sleep, they are just interesting enough for me to stop thinking about other things, but not so riveting that I don't get off to sleep. Having looked at reviewers complaints about the narration, I nearly did not try this series, but as I like Sayer's writing so much, I took the plunge. The narrator seems to gradually be getting better. Admittedly it would maybe have been better if the books had been read by a man, and I prefer for example, the narrator of Kerry Greenwood's series Phryne Fisher mysteries (Stephanie Daniel, if only she wouldn't occassionally try to sing) These books are much better. However I am working my way through both authors catalogues on MP3, and enjoying them. The great thing about Audible is if you really can't stand a narrator's voice or style, you can request to cancel the purchase, and use your credit on another book.

Getting used to the narrator, seems to improve

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Working papers? I recognise elements used in the longer books. It in no way fills a gap in the series but works out a lot of disjointed styles and storylines. I think I wasted a credit

Narration good


Very odd collection

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I'm sorry to have to be so harsh but I keep having another go at this book and find that the narration absolutely kills the stories.

Spoilt by the narration

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