verityw's review against another edition
3.0
Another fun installment in the series - I had my suspicions about the culprit but I still enjoyed finding out how it all unfolded. These books are so easy to read.
persey's review
2.0
I greatly enjoyed the Charles Paris books back in the day, but if this had been the first I read, I doubt I’d have read another. The fun, the wit, were lacking; this was sour and polemical and the resolution was obvious. Compounding this, Frederick Davidson, whom ordinarily I’d listen to reading the phone book, did the book no favors. Two stars only because it served to kill insomnia and because it would have been marginally better read.
guardian's review against another edition
1.0
This audio book was really awful. I've listened to the BBC Radio Charles Paris mysteries with Bill Nighy for years. Even when the plots are simplistic, Bill brings the character to life. You can hear the aches and pains in his voice, his love (such as it is) for Frances, his love of alcohol, his frustration with his agent.
Frederick Davidson, however, reads this book like an upper class British schoolboy. It's the kind of voice I remember from watching 1950s British films where the snobby public (Eton, Harrow, et) schoolboy lords it over everyone else. No range of emotion, no depth, just a horrible one note reading.
The story wasn't the best of the Charles Paris stories either. So all in all a bad read. It was free on Audible. Even being free it wasn't worth the time I lost listening.
Frederick Davidson, however, reads this book like an upper class British schoolboy. It's the kind of voice I remember from watching 1950s British films where the snobby public (Eton, Harrow, et) schoolboy lords it over everyone else. No range of emotion, no depth, just a horrible one note reading.
The story wasn't the best of the Charles Paris stories either. So all in all a bad read. It was free on Audible. Even being free it wasn't worth the time I lost listening.
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