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The Winter Garden Mystery

A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

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The Winter Garden Mystery

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
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About this listen

 In this second installment of Carola Dunn's cozy mystery series set in 1923 England, plucky Daisy Dalrymple embarks on another assignment for Town and Country magazine and discovers that daffodil bulbs aren't all that's buried in a country estate's flower bed.

Feisty flapper Dalrymple is a breath of fresh air to the occupants of gloomy Occles Hall in Cheshire, among them her former school chum, wallflower Bobbie Parslow, and the thorny mistress of the manor, Lady Valeria. While photographing the barren ground behind the house, Daisy suspects someone has been digging amidst the soil's first green shoots, and promptly unearths the corpse of Grace Moss, the missing parlor maid. So begins a harrowing romp as the dead woman's shocking secret is revealed.

©1995 Carola Dunn (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc. Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Traditional Detectives Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Cosy Exciting Murder Mystery

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Critic reviews

"Set in a British manor house in 1923, this traditional charmer will please most everyone." ( Library Journal)
"Manners (P.G. Wodehouse-style) and mystery get equal time in a low-keyed story with considerable charm." ( Kirkus Reviews)
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Daisy does it again and as the main characters develope my joy increases. Another mystery and another delightful few days in their company. The only fleeting shadows for me are with Dunnes narration. I love her voices and if you've never spent time in the UK you will love it, however, the 'posh' accent attempts produce some weird pronunciations but it does get better towards the end. I'd still buy these books with the same narrator would suggest you listen to a sample first.

Daisy is always a guaranteed winner!

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A mediocre story with terrible narration. Why have an American reader who has no idea of English pronunciation or accents?

Terrible narration

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The story is set in aristocratic England in the 1920s and the narrator should have a cut glass English accent. Unfortunately the narrator is American. She tries to get it right, but fails. It really irritates.

Perhaps an English narrator next time?

Shame about the narration.

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A pleasing story ruined by awful reading , such a shame . Makes it hard to listen to

Pronunciations will make you cringe

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These books are gentle detective stories perfect for light listening when working in the garden or around the house .

Highly entertaining

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The narrator's accents are dire, almost too bad to listen to. She's obviously never even heard a Welsh accent. Imagine Dick van Dyke doing Welsh.

Oh why oh why an American narrator?

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A good murder mystery of the cosy, "Golden Age" style, but the choice of narrator was misguided. I'm not sure of her actual nationality, but she sounded American, and she had a very odd way with the English accents she was required to produce. Especially the (mostly) upper-class accents. She seems to think that in every word like "gather", "gladly", "gas", etc., the vowel sound was the long a (like the a sound in "garden"). It becomes a little distracting -- or distrahhhcting. ;)

She reads well, but I think she would be better suited to American audiobooks. Someone like Cornelius Garett (narrator of the wonderful Inspector Wilkins country-house-murder-mystery novels) would have been a better choice, or as the protagonist is female, Penelope Keith.

Good story, but needs a different narrator

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So first off let me say I LOVE the Daisy books! Having read and thoroughly enjoyed the hard copies a few years ago, I was delighted when I found the audiobooks. With well written and amusing characters, and a gripping, exciting plot, this audiobook should have made for a fun, light-hearted, and easy-going listen....

However, why Audible cast this narrator to read this particular book I have no idea. I can only assume she may be somehow related to the author as they have very similar surnames. She reads this book with some attempt at an upper-class British accent, which is anything but successful. Her own American/ Canadian accent is highly prominent, yet combined with her mispronunciation and strangulation of vowels, the entire narration is extremely irritating, and distracts from the book itself. Her attempt at any kind of dialect (in particular the Welsh) is diabolical, and intact made me stop listening halfway through and remove the audiobook from my library.

Terrible narration!!!!

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I liked the story and hated the American narration. Plus, please get place names correct.

difficult to listen to

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Story was ok, considering I listened for free but the narrator is not brilliant and would hazard a guess only is reading the book as related to the author

Ok story but the narrator is not brilliant

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