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Death at Wentwater Court
- Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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Summary
No stranger to sprawling country estates, wealthy Daisy Dalrymple is breaking new ground in having scandalously traded silver spoon for pen and camera to cover a story for Town and Country magazine. But her planned interviews with the inhabitants of Wentwater Court give way to interrogation after suave Lord Stephen Astwick meets a dire fate on the tranquil skating pond.
Armed with evidence that his fate was anything but accidental, Daisy joins forces with Scotland Yard to examine an esteemed collection of suspects and to see that the unlikely culprit doesn't slip through their fingers just as the unfortunate Astwick slipped through the ice.
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- Ellie
- 28-08-21
What is this horrific narration?!
These books are such fun, but someone should have given the poor narrator a basic understanding of English words. A girl called Fenella but pronounced ‘fennle-ah’, pater pronounced ‘patter’, The Savoy as ‘The SAVV-oy’…I could go on, it was so jarring and disappointing.
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- Ms. Alison A. Sinclair
- 05-08-21
Nice little story but.....
I liked the story but the narrator was a bit off putting. The narrator is American and her English accent was a cross between Australian and Irish, her country yokel accent was dreadful! Many of the words were spoken the American way not the English. She did however make all the characters sound different which was a blessing!
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- Jean the Bean
- 10-08-21
Enjoyable cosy murder mystery
Mid Atlantic pronunciation detracts from an otherwise decent listen. Every time the narrator, Bernadette Dunne. (who has won awards for her skills) slipped off her perfect English accent, it jarred. Italy was pronounced Iddaly. The Derby horse race became the Durby. Bitterly came out as bidderly. And I have never heard the name Fenella pronounced as in Fennel the vegetable. More examples are sprinkled through the reading.
It was just aggravating enough to put me off purchasing more in the series but try this 'included' free book and see if it bugs you as much as it bugged me.
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- pauline sims
- 19-04-22
Great Plot and Characters and oodles of charm
Great characters and plot, an old favourite. Love the ease and embedded ness of the time and place. The accent took me several goes to feel at home with, as twinges of North America seep though, but I was eventually won over by the appropriate warmth of the narrators voice, and her tone very appropriate for how I have always imagined Daisy
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- rutoap
- 12-04-22
good story ruined by reader.
I enjoy the stories but the weird pronunciation of too many words is irritating. Audible must have native English speakers available.
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- Handyann
- 24-04-22
Not a bad tale
This was a gently enjoyable book, set back in the 1920’s and Christie-esque in style. However, it would have been so much better narrated by a British reader. The American narrator didn’t do too badly, but some of the mispronounciations and dreadful rural accents really grated. She seems to think that everyone who wasn’t landed gentry had a cockney accent, no matter where they came from. I’d like to listen to more of these, but at least 2 and 3 are read by the same person 🙄 sigh….
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- Kindle Customer
- 11-05-22
Strangling the English Language
The narrator had a most unfortunate accent , and her pronunciation of many words was bizarre.
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- Jill Goodman
- 09-05-22
Story spoiled.
This was a gentle story (apart from the body) but was spoiled by the narration. The narrator read at a very fast pace and her pronunciation was rather strange at times though it might be down to differences between American English and British English.
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- stapy
- 03-08-22
Disappointed with narrator.
Story good, but the half American/half British voice was not to my taste I’m afraid.
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- Ra CS
- 04-08-23
Nice story. Terrible narrator
The story tapped along nicely but the American narrator mangled the English language terribly. Never have I heard Fenella pronounced quite like that and ‘buoyed along’ as Boo-eed along just made my fillings want to escape.
Tip for US narrators is to pronounce English word the English way in an English story. Otherwise it was enjoyable.
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