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The Dead Woman of Deptford

Inspector Ben Ross Mystery, Book 6

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The Dead Woman of Deptford

By: Ann Granger
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong, Julia Barrie
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The sixth Inspector Ben Ross mystery.

On a cold November night in a Deptford yard, dock worker Harry Parker stumbles upon the body of a dead woman. Inspector Ben Ross is summoned from Scotland Yard to this insalubrious part of town, but no witness to the murder of this well-dressed middle-aged woman can be found. Even Jeb Fisher, the local rag-and-bone man, swears he's seen nothing.

Meanwhile Ben's wife, Lizzie, is trying to suppress a scandal: family friend Edgar Wellings has a gambling addiction and no means of repaying his debts. Reluctantly Lizzie agrees to visit his debt collector's house in Deptford, but when she arrives she finds her husband is investigating the murder of the woman in question.

Edgar was the last man to see Mrs Clifford alive, and he has good reason to want her dead, but Ben and Lizzie both know that a case like this is rarely as simple as it appears....

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The atmosphere and description of Victorian London. The general storyline. Most enjoyable. I look forward to reading or listening to another.

the whole book very good.

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A good story. But the narrator for Lizzie had forsaken the character’s Derbyshire accent, replacing it with a generic middle class accent. ‘Ben’ was read well but rather fast, whereas ‘Lizzie’ was painfully slow, so I had to increase the player speed for Lizzie and slow it down for Ben…. repeatedly. All rather a pity, because the previous books in this series were very well read/ paced.

Lively sense of south London

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Very tame indeed. Just new what was coming. Where was the imagination of the author. Such an ordinary boring story. Sorry but there it is.

Boring

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