Calamity in Kent, John Rowland
Calamity in Kent, John Rowland
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Calamity in Kent

Author: John Rowland

Narrator: Peter Wickham

Unabridged: 7 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 02/01/2017


Synopsis

In the peaceful seaside town of Broadgate, an impossible crime occurs. The operator of the cliff railway locks the empty carriage one evening; when he returns to work next morning, a dead body is locked inside – a man who has been stabbed in the back. Jimmy London, a newspaper reporter, is first on the scene. He is quick on the trail for clues and agrees to pool his knowledge with Inspector Shelley of Scotland Yard, who is holidaying in the area. Mistrustful of the plodding local policeman, Inspector Beech, the two men launch their own investigation into the most baffling locked-room mystery, a case that could reignite Jimmy’s flagging career, but one that exposes him to great danger.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anissa on March 24, 2021

I very much enjoyed this one. Considering that I harboured a strong dislike for narrator Jimmy London for more than a third of the way through, I'm fairly amazed at where I wound up in the end. It's a funny thing to dislike a narrator but be very interested in the murder mystery at hand. It's a pret......more

Goodreads review by Abigail on June 02, 2021

The Reading the Detectives group here on Goodreads takes me deep into the byways of Golden Age British mysteries, and through its members’ monthly picks I have discovered some gems of detection. This wasn’t one of them. The writing was pleasant enough on the whole, the principal character mildly ent......more