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Death at the Excelsior [Classic Tales Edition]

By: P.G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
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Inside a quiet boarding house on the waterfront, a man stares up to the ceiling with sightless eyes. The tight lipped landlady proclaims that it is murder. Can an upscale detective agency penetrate to the bottom of the mystery?

Public Domain (P)2010 B.J. Harrison Classics Linguistics Social Sciences
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As a longtime lover of the whole canon of PG Wodehouse, it was with considerable surprise that I found this detective mystery by the great master. Not a genre I had associated him with. But this find was really great: It’s short, it’s a simple story - comedic in plot - with a rather unexpected twist at the end - but full of the descriptive prose that we would expect from Wodehouse. Personally, I would have preferred the tale to be retold in a british accent (the action takes place in Southampton and London), but BJ Harrison decided differently (!) and he certainly does an excellent job with the retelling and the characters. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

A Wodehouse Detective Mystery

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I got this because it is a PG Wodehouse. I found it quite poor, the narration and the story below what I expect from a Wodehouse.
Quite disappointed thank goodness it is a short story !

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