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Georgette Heyer (Author), Matt Addis (Narrator), Penguin Audio (Publisher)

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Dark secrets, an unexplained death and an old country house lie at the heart of Georgette Heyer's classic murder mystery.

The Priory may look ramshackle in appearance, but Peter, Margaret and Celia are totally charmed by their newly inherited country house.

But there's more to The Priory than meets the eye.

Left empty for years, hardly a single person has set foot inside, and down in the village, the locals whisper of a ghostly figure that roams the halls....

When a murder is committed, the new owners start to fear the rumours are true - but is their new home really haunted, or is someone trying to scare them away?

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9 hours and 8 minutes
Author

Georgette Heyer
Narrator

Matt Addis
Audible release date

30 September 2021
Language

English
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Penguin Audio
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B098KK9G77
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	9 hours and 8 minutes
Author	Georgette Heyer
Narrator	Matt Addis
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com.au Release Date	30 September 2021
Publisher	Penguin Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B098KK9G77
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Izan Gill

Not up to Heyers usual standard.

Reviewed in Australia on 8 June 2021

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I've long been a Georgette Heyer fan, but this book wasn't around when I first read her detective novels and I found it nothing like as good as her others.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on 29 June 2015

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great read

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June

All great fun and highly recommended.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 June 2016

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I started reading Georgette Heyer books decades ago, and loved her regency romance novels. This is the first I have tried of the murder/mystery (or detective or thriller or whodunnit, call it what you will) genre, and I wasn't disappointed. It was also, in fact, the first of its kind that she wrote, published in 1932.

A family comprising a brother, two sisters, the husband of one, and an aunt, all move into the Priory, an ancient building inherited by the siblings. There they come up against all sorts of odd goings-on, which the locals blamed on the Monk, a ghostly figure said to haunt the Priory. There are many suspicious characters to ponder, including a mad, French artist, an elderly neighbour who thinks nothing of invading the property of others in the middle of the night to catch moths, and a particularly suspect young man by the name of Strange who regularly trespasses and tries to persuade them to leave. There were a couple of references to Mr Strange and his odd companion, which I found mildly amusing.

The young women were frightened by some of the events, but their menfolk and aunt were made of sterner stuff and were determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. The men armed themselves with revolvers, which appears to have been perfectly acceptable in those days, and gradually work their way through the mystery, finding priest-holes, hidden stairways, a cellar with a large stone entrance and, naturally, a skeleton along the way. All great fun, and highly recommended.

There was even a little romance. Two of the characters are attracted to each other in a polite, distant sort of way, and eventually the man takes the woman in his arms and kisses her. When they are interrupted (which is immediately), the young woman confidently announces that they are engaged to be married. Aw! Was life so simple back then? "I love everything that is old," famously said Oliver Goldsmith. "Old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine." I have to agree.

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Loud big feet.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 December 2018

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I love Miss Heyer's historical tales and because of the season thought I would try one of her mystery stories. Well, her dialogue is good, her characters entertaining, but oh, dear it has sadly dated. For a start it is so slow it would annoy even a snail. The plot consists of a lonely long empty house in a rural backwater, four not as bright as they think young things, rumours of a ghost, sliding panels, a stereotype dastardly drug riddled incompetent French artist, a pantomime bumpkin policeman, and a handsome young man who attracts the attention of one of the four dim young things. A lady, a grand girl, don't you know. Dash it all, how could it be otherwise as it wasn't written in our present racy day? Just reading it makes you speak the way they do. Well the chaps do some investigating but prove as thick as planks. With my modem eye I guessed an important plot point. They do not. Have no fear, justice is done but I had to grit my teeth to force myself to read to the end. I doubt I will read any more of Miss Heyer's mysteries. Can't in truth recommend this one as other than a curiosity. Stick to her historical tales, they are five star class.

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YellowElspeth

Honestly, she's written far better than this!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 June 2018

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Nasty, snobby-toned piece of work.

Not a bad plot but the writing had all the depth of the Famous Five out of Scooby Doo, and the main characters were all thoroughly unpleasant in their attitude to the local "yokels".

I persisted to the end, because I'm a big Heyer fan, mostly for her Georgian/Regency novels but I've enjoyed her other detective novels, and "Duplicate Death" is one of my all time favourite crime novels.

Not this one, sadly. I see from google that it was her first mystery novel and, happily, her technique improved. If this had been the first of her books I'd read, I'd never have read another.

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GerCelt

Witty, fun classic mystery

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 May 2021

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One of the best of Heyer's detective fiction, this story includes the elements that readers love from her historical romances - wit, sharp dialogue, likeable characters and a dollop of romance. The mystery is also a classic and satisfying formula, with plenty of action from the beginning. Enjoyable and fun, this will appeal to fans of classic golden era crime, cozy mysteries, classic detective fiction

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East End Lady

A Rattling Good Yarn,

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 19 December 2018

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I had forgotten they once wrote stories like this. This is a pre-war tale about a family houseparty. It is set in an old abbey with no electricity but lots of wainscot and rattling groaning noises, This is enough to put the wind up several of the ladies who are convinced it is haunted.
The ladies spend their time playing tennis and bridge, and the gentlemen investigate by trapesing round the estate and village, and downing halves in the local hostelry .
It is a good novel to read for its vintage nostalgia value but it's not very exciting. Thank goodness GH improved!

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