The Curse of the House of Foskett
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Emma Gregory
About this listen
125 Gower Street, 1882: Sidney Grice was once London's premier personal detective. But since his last case led an innocent man to the gallows, business has been light. Listless and depressed, Grice has not even gathered the strength to re-insert his glass eye.
Then an eccentric member of a Final Death Society has the temerity to die on his study floor. Finally Sidney and March have an investigation, one that will draw them to an eerie house in Kew, and the mysterious Baroness Foskett....
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"One of the most delightful and original novels of the year." (Daily Mail)
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-12-21
brilliant
loved it. Cannot wait to hear the next story. Enjoyed every bit of it. The narration excellent as usual
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- Jan
- 04-05-21
Enjoyable, but becomes tiresome
It begins as an enjoyable tale of extraordinary murders, with Marje (yes, I know her name is March, but I can only hear Marje) giving the occasional quick witted and scathing response to Mr Grice, but eventually you don't really care any more, and Mr G's incredible detecting skills, observation and implausible 'accurate to the second' estimates of time become tiresome.
I listened to the end, but would have been fine leaving it with an hour to go.
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- Dreadpirate Smoo
- 12-07-19
OK.
Quite an enjoyable listen but just found I didn't really get that involved in it. There was a couple of times my mind wondered. There is nothing particularly wrong with the story or how it was told and I couldn't really say what I did or didn't like about it. It's OK. That's about it really it's an OK story it was told ok. I may listen to more of them but I may not. Just a bit on the fence with this one.
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- sheila parry
- 23-03-21
Good read
Very good right to the end quite a puzzle strange outcome but very good indeed
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- Bernice
- 25-10-24
At last, a writer I like.
Engaging and thoroughly enjoyable. Just disappointed books 3, 4 and 5 not available on Audible.
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- Mark Sanford-Wood
- 27-03-15
Quirky but somehow misses the mark
The Curse of the House of Foskett is an easy enough listen and will while away a few hours on the motorway, but is unlikely to stay with you.
The attempted characterisations aim at a twist on the Holmesesque late Victorian super-intellectual gentleman detective. It almost works, but sadly the discontinuities constantly break the illusion leaving a "what might have been" feel.
Features a nicely contrived denouement in the mode of the genre. Deliciously improbable endings are de rigueur in these parts, but the villain was sadly all too obvious, which left a slight feeling of anti-climax.
Emma Gregory's reading took a little getting used to, but at no point was a delight.
I would not particularly recommend it to a friend, but neither would I warn them off. It deserves a middle ranking of 3 stars.
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- Tim
- 04-07-16
The second time is always better
I really liked the story and the performance the characters work well together and there is a lot of humour and subtle twists to the plot
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- Sam C.
- 22-08-16
Brilliant
Where does The Curse of the House of Foskett rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
It's right up there I've read a lot of books in all different genres and I'm glad I discovered this series as it's become a firm favourite.
Who was your favorite character and why?
In this one Sydney because we learnt more about him.
Which scene did you most enjoy?
Too many to mention
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes.
Any additional comments?
These are great who dunnits with brilliant characters that make you want to know more and more about them I would highly recommend.
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- Eleni
- 17-01-17
A pleasant listen
A much improved second book to the first of the series. The story is interesting and it keeps one listening. No strong resbance to Sherlock H. this time which is a good thing and the women's characters are more believable even if not perfect yet. In terms of murder it's MORE gory than the first book. I would recomend it as an easy listening
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- Aaron G.
- 17-09-17
Intriguing but unoriginal
This is my first book in the series, very nice, reads like a darker, meaner, Sherlock Holmes. The main characters remind me very much of Holmes and Dr Watson, which subtracts from the originality of the book. The story, often gruesome and dark in the way is portrayed, kept me going and it was defenetly worth getting to the end.
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