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Murder on the Flying Scotsman

A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery, Book 4

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Murder on the Flying Scotsman

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
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It is the spring of 1923 and the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple is on her way to a stately home in Scotland to research her next article for Town and Country. On board the Flying Scotsman, the famous London-to-Edinburgh train, Daisy meets an old schoolfellow, Anne Bretton. Anne, along with all of her relatives, is en route to visit the deathbed of the family scion and notorious miser, Alistair McGowan. As it currently stands, Alistair's will leaves the entire family fortune to his brother Albert, and the rest of the family is rushing to his side, each hoping to convince him to change his will in their favor.

Daisy, meanwhile, has her hands full taking care of Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher's young daughter Belinda, who ran away from home and stowed away aboard the train. She barely has time to take notice of the intricate family feud taking place all around her - that is, until Albert McGowan is found murdered on the train and Daisy is surrounded by an entire family of suspects.

©1996 Carola Dunn (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc. Detective Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction Scotland Cosy Transportation Murder Mystery

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Good story but the constant mispronunciation of Berwick where the majority of the story is set drove me crackers.

The “W” in Berwick is silent

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Please tell the narrator to seek alternative employment. She spoils a fun story with her awful accents. Why do they change mid sentence?

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Jolly hockey sticks and bravo, such fun!
Really loving this series, it's gentle and the characters are great fun.

3 stars on the performance as yet again the accents were all over the place, and the characters voices changed, sometimes within a sentence.

Spiffing

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Narrator mangles English pronunciation, place names and turns Scots accent into a strange Irish hybrid.

Good book, shame about the narrator.

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Berwick and many other words mis-pronounced throughout was very distracting but I liked the story and Daisy

Good story but bad narration/ pronunciation

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I thought the previous narrator had trouble pronouncing British English words and attempting accents, but sadly this one is worse. From the terrible Scottish, Northumberland, and Indian accents, and the Australian Cockney, to constant mispronounciation of town names and what I thought were fairly common words (warbling is "worbling" not "waahbling", although even Brits seem to get dissection wrong - Dis-section , not Die-section).

Diverting story, made distracting by a narrator out of their depth.

Could the narration get any worse

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Great story as with all Daisy Dalrymple books. Good twisty plot, characters and clues aplenty.

The poor narrator needed a pronunciation guide for English place-names. Even more annoying when at least twice the narrative describes how to pronounce Durham and Berwick!

Great story, good narrator, place-names murdered.

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Again, the narrator really needs to be English to provide the correct intonation and emphasis required to give the story it's true meaning. mispronunciation of names and places and poor attempts at accents spoilt it.

Wrong Narrator

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have to say the combination of dreadful miss annunciation of words combined with the appauling accents that sounded more Australian than Scottish really marred the enjoyment of the story.

the narration on this book was appalling

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This is a standard cozy crime story, well plotted, with engaging characters and an interesting historical context.
Unfortunately, the narration is really poor. Why does the upper class teenager, Kitty, have an aAustralian accent?
Why hasn’t the narrator bothered to find the correct pronunciation of British place names?
Why even attempt a Scots accent when the result is embarrassingly awful?

Entertaining tale ruined by dreadful narration.

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