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The Wreck of the Mary Deare

By: Hammond Innes
Narrated by: Bill Wallis
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They dismissed the Mary Deare as ‘a piece of leaking ironmongery taken off the junk heap’. For 40 years this 6,000-ton freighter had tramped the seas, suffered shipwreck twice, and been torpedoed three times in two world wars. Then one March night, battered and bruised and empty, she emerged from severe Biscay gales into the English Channel - and into the newspaper headlines. Here was a ship of mystery and tragedy... in one of the greatest sea stories of all time.

©1956 Hammond Innes (P)2010 BBC Audiobooks Ltd Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction

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Really enjoyable, wanted to keep on listening full of suspense and mystery.
Narrator was really good made for easy listening.

First Hammond Innes Novel

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I read this book over fifty years ago, was highly impressed then, and decided to try my recently acquired Audible version. It goes without saying that the writing and the story are first class, matched by the narration by Bill Wallace which simply complemented the whole.
Having read the book first, I found that Audible enhances the pictures
formed by the reader.
All in all, highly recommended.




the Audible enhances the pictures the reader

.highly recommended,

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I had previously read this book and enjoyed it. Having it read to me by Bill Wallis was an experience. Bill is an excellent reader.

Interesting story

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I thought this would seem a bit dated, but I was so wrong! Hammond Innes is a master storyteller.

Bill Wallis reads beautifully- he really took me to those places.

Thoroughly recommended.

Age shall not weary them.....

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I enjoyed this audio book very much and thoroughly recommend it. The narrator was excellent.

An enthralling yarn, brilliantly narrated!

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Wrecking ,storms, baddies, possible baddies. devious schemes -all bought together in a story i barely remember from seeing the Hollywood film years ago.

Cracking sea yarn

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Great Yarn and very well read. Revisited this book after 50years and was not disappointed.

Excellent

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Chose this because of the narrator, was very pleasantly surprised very well written beautifully narrated a gripping thriller with many twists and turns perhaps too much nautical detail but I really did enjoy it.

Surprsingly Good

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Or so my husband says. Good story and plot. Worth a credit :) well read by the narrator.

A superb listen

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Being a bit of a connoisseur of Audible books I have to say Bill Wallis' narration is excellent. Absolutely spot on for the archetypal British dramas of Hammond Innes. Beautifully paced, inflections where needed and not over ambitious with accents. Well done Wallis!

Excellent narration - well done Wallis!

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