The Anatomy of Ghosts, Andrew Taylor
The Anatomy of Ghosts, Andrew Taylor
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The Anatomy of Ghosts

Author: Andrew Taylor

Narrator: John Telfer

Unabridged: 13 hr 59 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2011

Synopsis

1786, Jerusalem College, Cambridge. The ghost of Sylvia Whichcote is rumored to be haunting Jerusalem, since disturbed fellow-commoner, Frank Oldershaw, claims to have seen the dead woman prowling the grounds.Desperate to salvage her son's reputation, Lady Anne Oldershaw employs John Holdsworth, author of The Anatomy of Ghosts, a stinging account of why ghosts are mere delusion to investigate. But his arrival in Cambridge disrupts an uneasy status quo as he glimpses a world of privilege and abuse.And when Holdsworth finds himself haunted not only by the ghost of his dead wife, Maria, but also Elinor—the very-much-alive Master's wife—his fate is sealed.

About Andrew Taylor

Andrew Taylor is a British author best known for his crime novels, which include the Dougal series, the Lydmouth series, the Roth trilogy, and the historical novel The American Boy. He has won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award twice.

About John Telfer

John Telfer, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is an actor best known for playing the character of Willy Pettit in five seasons of Bergerac. He has appeared many times in various television dramas, while his parallel theatrical career has involved him in leading roles at the Bristol Old Vic, the Royal National Theatre, the Old Vic in London, and many regional theaters. He has made hundreds of radio broadcasts, and he plays the part of Alan, the vicar, in The Archers.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill

Wonderful recreation of 18th-c Cambridge atmosphere marred by whether to take the spooky stuff literally. That is my preference.......more

Goodreads review by Bev

There are all sorts of reasons why The Anatomy of Ghosts by Andrew Taylor should have been a winner: it's a historical mystery; it's a historical mystery with academic ties; it started out so very promising and held that for about the first 100 pages. But then it just kind of lost me. And it isn't t......more

Goodreads review by Nick

The Anatomy of Ghosts is a murder mystery set in seventeenth century Britain, in the city of Cambridge, at the fictional Jerusalem College, which the preface tells us is modeled after the nonfictional Emmanuel College. The amateur detective called in to investigate the deaths has just written a scat......more

Goodreads review by J.A.

For the most part, I enjoyed this, although the attitude fostered in the young men of the Holy Ghost club towards women, is going to be a bit much for some readers to swallow. But then that's kind of the point. On its surface, The Anatomy of Ghosts is a classic gothic novel where the ghostly subplot......more

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