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The Canning Town Murder

By: Mike Hollow
Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
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September 1940. As the Blitz takes its nightly toll on London and Hitler prepares his invasion fleet just across the Channel in occupied France, Britain is full of talk about enemy agents. Suspicion is at an all-time high, and no one is sure who can be trusted.

In Canning Town, rescue workers are unsettled when they return to a damaged street and discover a body that shouldn’t be there. When closer examination of the corpse reveals death by strangling, Detective Inspector John Jago is called upon to investigate. But few seem to really care about the woman’s death - not even her family. As Jago digs deeper he starts to uncover a trail of deception, betrayal, and romantic entanglements....

©2016 Mike Hollow (P)2021 Soundings Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Police Procedural Traditional Detectives
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I usually listen to more modern thriller/crime but with the great narration and storyline I could not stop listening and wanted it to never end - brilliant

Refreshingly Great

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Really enjoyed this book in will work my way through the series. Excellent historical details and a cracking good mystery . The narrator is also very good .

Love this series!

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Simon Mattocks has brought these characters and story to life, I look forward to more.

Perfect performance.

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Enjoyed listening to this book the narrator is excellent ,easy to listen to and authentic accents abound. No spoilers ,basically it’s about one murder, bigamy and possible espionage .The story is nicely wrapped up at the end and our hero gets a step close to understanding his feelings.
the way he questions his feelings for a 40 year old man back then ,beggars belief I think that is not only fiction but probably fantasy ,however that’s why I like these stories.
Finally The main question I’m left with is will Sergent Craddock ever learn to eat properly ?

Another dose of wartime crime

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Got hooked on wartime stories with good old Bernie Gunther thence Scarrows Blackout thought I'd try the London experience and found it captivating. I feel I already have a picture of the black market "spivery" and the blitz of course but the other details Hollow drops in ,like the Police canteen and the hopeless bad design of the Anderson shelter add much to the richness of the narrative for me.
But I don't see the American journalist is adding much to the mix . We are told an Englishman takes time but this is what time Britain with the real threat of death stirring loins all over the sceptre isles come on man get your bag straight!

London noir?

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