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The Red Lacquer Case

By: Patricia Wentworth
Narrated by: Graham Scott
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Sally Meredith is in deadly danger after her mercurial uncle Fritzi, the genius chemist and inventor M. Frederic Lasalle, disappears into the night. He leaves her as the only person who knows how to open the Chinese puzzle box in which he has concealed the formula for his latest invention: a new gas, sudden, swift, and deadly beyond anything ever before devised. Soon, Sally is in the clutches of sinister foreign agents, and her former fiancé Bill Armitage, of the War Office, with the aid of a Scotland Yard detective, desperately searches for her …

Public Domain (P)2023 Voices of Today Detective Mystery Traditional Detectives Fiction Technology
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This story is quite an entertaining listen but if you’re not already a fan of Wentworth you might be put off. I didn’t really warm to any of the characters and the story gets a bit long winded in the second half. I really disliked the narrator’s voice too - particularly the way he did Bill which was a constant irritation throughout. The main story has a sort of Epilogue which I found very strange - Bill’s behaviour in particular. It would have been better without the last section.

Not Wentworth’s best

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Could not finish it because the narration was so bad. Reader sounded as if he was shouting and with poor intonation.

Appalling ñarration

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Wish I could give an honest review on the story,but my o my....I couldn't follow. The narrator make it difficult to follow the storyline and to even finish this book.

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