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A Shot in the Dark

By: Lynne Truss
Narrated by: Matt Green
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About this listen

After the notorious 'Middle Street Massacre' of 1951, when the majority of Brighton's criminals wiped one another out in a vicious battle as the local police force enjoyed a brief stop en route for an ice cream, Inspector Steine rather enjoys life as a policeman.

No criminals, no crime, no stress.

He just wishes Sergeant Brunswick would stop insisting that perhaps not every criminal was wiped out that fateful day. So it's really rather annoying when an ambitious - not to mention irritating - new Constable shows up to work and starts investigating a series of burglaries. And it's even more annoying when, after Constable Twitten is dispatched to the theatre for the night, he sits next to a vicious theatre critic who is promptly shot dead partway through the opening night of a new play. It seems Brighton may be in need of a police force after all....

©2018 Lynne Truss (P)2018 W.F. Howes Ltd Cosy Crime Fiction Literature & Fiction Mystery Fiction Funny Witty Comedy

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Great listen and if you’re familiar with the Inspector Steine radio series you’ll love it.

Excellent performance by Matt Green

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Characters are loveable, story line clever and references to the era absolutely bang on. I loved it. Narrator is bally hilarious in portraying each of the main cast. Starting the next book straight away!
Bally marvellous.

Bally marvellous

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Lynne Truss has wonderful sense of humour and is a great story teller. This is a good whodunnit, but a wonderful listen owing to the well drawn characters and the fact that it is so funny!!

Wonderful!

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It took me a little while to get into, but the story was well written and gets the humour just right. All brought to life by a great reader

Very funny and an excellent performance

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I had this book to
Listen too when cleaning but I found myself giggling away. It was lighthearted fun and beautifully performed. Smashing little find. Thank you.

I loved this book

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Nice.y narrated with characterisation voices, albeit preferred the follow on series of BBC4 casted dramatisation.

Loved the story lines

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By the end of the book I could have hit the ‘char lady’ for calling anyone and everyone “dear” and screamed with frustration at the incompetence of Brighton’s best constabulary.
I won’t be seeking out book 2.

Rather annoying characters

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Thoroughly enjoyed the mad plot, as logical and as likely as Escher’s stairways , the comic characters and the ear-opening narration. Listen and Enjoy.

Enjoyable comic fun

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Very enjoyable book , really silly but very entertaining !
Well narrated .16 15 15 15 15

Enjoyable farce

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I listen to a lot of books (over 500 so far) and this stands out as one of the best. gentle but never dull, some brilliant twists and made me laugh out loud at times. I'm even thinking of buying the paper version for my husband who's not really a reader. well done Lynne Truss. the narration was also excellent.

loved it, funny and twisty

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