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    Murder Flies the Coop
    Murder Flies the Coop
    Murder Flies the Coop
    Audiobook9 hours

    Murder Flies the Coop

    Written by Jessica Ellicott

    Narrated by Barbara Rosenblat

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    One would hardly call them birds of a feather, but thrill-seeking American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and quietly reserved Brit Edwina Davenport do one thing very well together-solve murders.Sharing lodging in the sleepy English village of Walmsley Parva has eased some of the financial strain on the two old school chums, but money is still tight in these lean years following the Great War. All of Beryl's ex-husbands have proven reluctant to part with her alimony, which is most inconvenient. So when the local vicar-and pigeon-racing club president-approaches them with a private inquiry opportunity, the ladies eagerly accept. There's been a spot of bother: the treasurer has absconded with the club's funds and several prized birds. Beryl and Edwina hope to flush out the missing man by checking his boardinghouse and place of employment at the coal mine. But when they visit the man's loft, they find their elusive quarry lying in white feathers and a pool of crimson blood, stabbed to death-the only witnesses cooing mournfully. After a stiff gin fizz, the ladies resume their search for the missing funds and prized birds-and now a murderer. Beryl and Edwina aren't shy about ruffling a few feathers as they home in on their suspects. But they had better find the killer fast, before their sleuthing career is cut short.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateSep 25, 2018
    ISBN9781980004783
    Author

    Jessica Ellicott

    Agatha award nominee Jessica Ellicott loves fountain pens, Mini Coopers and throwing parties. A member of Wicked Authors, Sisters in Crime and International Thriller Writers, she lives in northern New England with her dark and mysterious husband, exuberant children and a precocious poodle named Sam.

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    • 3/5
      I found the book went on and on in some parts which spoilt it a little. Great narration though.
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      England, expats, friendship, cosy-mystery, murder, murder-investigation, private-investigators, 1920s, witty, situational-humor, law-enforcement, mining, pigeons, gardening, small-town, historical-novel, historical-places-events, historical-research, history-and-culture, class-consciousness, theft, sabotage, labor-agitators*****Beryl is an adventurous American adventurer who finds herself bored with life and wealthy from alimony payments from several ex-husbands, moves in with her old school friend Edwina in a village in Kent. First, the vicar retains them to find a missing man who was accountant at the local (awful) mine as well as treasurer of the local pigeon racing group. While checking out the pigeons Beryl looks under the coop and there is the body of the missing man. Next, the wife of owner of the mine wants them to look into the murder, but mostly wants them to find her jewelry on the man's body which he was holding in anticipation of their escape from her odious husband. And on they go, learning more than they knew about the conditions of mine workers and about others in the village as well. Loved it (and them)!Barbara Rosenblat gives her usual delightful interpretive narration!