Skeltons Guide to Blazing Corpses, David Stafford
Skeltons Guide to Blazing Corpses, David Stafford
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Skelton's Guide to Blazing Corpses

Author: David Stafford

Narrator: John Telfer

Unabridged: 8 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/01/2022

Synopsis

It is November 5th, Guy Fawkes Night, 1930. Bonfires are blazing, rockets burst. In a country lane, revellers discover a car that has been set on fire. At first they assume that this is the work of vandals taking the Guy Fawkes spirit a little too far, then they notice, sitting at the wheel, a body, charred beyond recognition. The initial assumption is that the owner of the car, Mr William Hodge, a successful travelling vacuum cleaner salesman has taken his own life by flooding the car with petrol and lighting a match. The post-mortem, however, reveals that Mr Hodge was either unconscious or dead before the fire was lit. When Tommy Blamire, a local criminal, is charged with the murder, barrister Arthur Skelton believes him to be innocent, so sets out to prove as much and ensure justice is served.

About David Stafford

David Stafford is the former project director at the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars at the University of Edinburgh and is now adjunct professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. He is a renowned expert on Churchill, and his previous publications include Churchill and Secret Service, Roosevelt and Churchill, Endgame 1945, and an official history, Mission Accomplished: SOE and Italy 1943–1945.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Louise on September 24, 2022

As someone who reads books, then completely forgets the plot, I picked this up knowing I'd enjoyed the previous two, but really not much more than that. So as each character showed up on page, there was a tiny spark of delight at remembering them. The whole gang is here again, Skelton, Edgar, Mila, Ro......more

Goodreads review by ghostly_bookish on February 14, 2023

CAWPILE 7.14 I thoroughly enjoy this series and hope it continues. The period setting, the characters, the enviroment, the humor- they're perfect for spending an afternoon in another world.......more

Goodreads review by Oundle Crime on December 14, 2024

There’s something very appealing about this series of period whodunnits by David Stafford, of which this is Book 3. The stories are peppered with eccentric characters and prose that’s vaguely Wodehousian, so they are great fun to read. And the plots are intriguing – not least because they are all ba......more

Goodreads review by CPE on October 20, 2022

Skelton's Guide to Blazing Corpses is the third in a series by David Stafford. Skelton is a very successful lawyer in 1930s London with a clerk called Edgar. Although the book does, indeed, start with a blazing corpse, Skelton has a couple of other cases on the go simultaneously. The blazing corpse p......more

Goodreads review by Emily on November 10, 2022

Like the two previous Skelton's Guide novels, I devoured this one as fast as I could. I love the device of making our investigator a defense attorney with a heart of gold, who takes on ridiculously boring but profitable cases in order to defend people he feels are innocent. Skelton himself is comple......more

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