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  • The Bloody Tower

  • Daisy Dalrymple Mysteries, Book 16
  • By: Carola Dunn
  • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
  • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (300 ratings)
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The Bloody Tower

By: Carola Dunn
Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
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Summary

In early 1925, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher - recent mother of twins - resumes her journalistic career by agreeing to write a piece about the Tower of London - the Bloody Tower - for an American magazine. Invited to observe the centuries-old ritual Ceremony of the Keys, she's spending the night (her first time away from her babies), since the complex is locked and guarded, and the high walls are surrounded by a disused moat.

Having been given a tour of the Crown Jewels, interviewed and observed the Yeoman Warders, and met the Raven Master, Daisy has more than enough material for her article and decides to leave as early as possible the next morning to return to her family. But when walking down the stairs, she almost trips over the dead body of one of the Yeoman Warders. That there's something seriously amiss cannot be denied due to the pike sticking out of his back. With her husband, Scotland Yard DCI Alec Fletcher, assigned to resolve the case, Daisy once again finds herself in the middle of a case of murder most foul.

©2010 Carola Dunn (P)2017 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Narration is grating

Not one of best story lines but nice enough. Most challenging is to follow the audio due to narration being two dimensional. Women seem to have to shrewd and over tip their voices and men sound constipated and gutter all. Narration makes such a farce of characters, it is a shame.

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Unfortunately spoilt by the narration

Although I’ve persevered through the previous books, even though the narrator isn’t my favourite, I abandoned this one part way through.

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I love these books, …

… even love the reader, but I do wish she could get English pronunciations. For example, Devereux she pronounced Devereux not Devereau, and similarly with Beauchamp, which should be pronounced Beecham. There were others, but you get the point.

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Full of Unlikeable Characters

Virtually all unlikeable characters and an unfathomable setting full of steps. Everyone seems to be going up or down them the whole time. I fell asleep near the end and can't be bothered to rewind what I missed.

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Sadly, poorly prepared.

While not knowing that the plural of court marshal is courts marshal is forgivable the constant mispronunciation of Devereux reminded me of a split in the carpet, causing one to trip every time it’s passed. There were other faux pas but they pale into insignificance. The story line was desperate to impress but sadly sounded as if the writer had swallowed a guide book but failed to read the passage about St. Peter ad Vincular which, to my certain knowledge has been included since the 1930’s. The book misses the mark on all fronts. It’s a good idea thrown away,

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Good story, but hard to follow at times.

The narrator has difficulty pronouncing any French words! She says the x on the end of Devereux every time and it really put me off!

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Entertaining with good twists to the plot

I enjoy Lucy Rayner’s narration, so much better than an American narrator trying unsuccessfully to sound British. The story is full of “Britishness”, and the plot, without being to scary, keeps you entertained.

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Enjoyable

This is by far my favourite narrator. It was an easy listen while completing chores and cooking.

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Disappointed

Grateful to have a narrator with an English accent again, but sadly she mispronounced so many words. The high pitch of her voice- used to differentiate between characters- rendered whole paragraphs omitted as was genuinely painful to listen.

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Truly dreadful narration

I love these stories but just can’t take the ghastly narration. I can take the mispronunciations but the way everything is delivered with exactly the same intonation is so amateur it defies belief

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