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By: Eilis Dillon
Narrated by: Roger Clark
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One phone call can change everything....

Miles de Cogan thought that he was set to live out a simple life with a cantankerous old lady for his landlord, but this is all turned on its head with a phone call. Inheriting a prosperous estate called County Wicklow and the title to go along with it, Miles learns of the death of his cousin, a baronet.

Excited to get started with his new life, Miles is keen to fully immerse himself in village life. Being a generous man of progressive ideas one of Miles's first aims is to develop and improve the village flour mill with the hope of collaborating with the local villagers and soon finds himself starting to envisage his life in among these old funny people. Suddenly, the humdrum simple lifestyle of the Irish village is soon broken - with a murder...Miles's overbearing neighbor Tom Reid is found, having died a painful and horrific death.

Is it Reid's plans to build a roadhouse and upset the old tradition of the village that has incurred the wrath of the Dangan residents, or is there something much more underhanded at play?

Could it be the ghost of Mile's late predecessor that haunts everyone?

©1954 Eilís Dillon (P)2019 Tantor Cosy Crime Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Village Thriller Haunted
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Absolutely delightful. Reminiscent of the wonderful Anthony Trollope. Such a shame there isn’t a plethora of books by this author

Will become a favourite

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Quite good it took me a while to get used to the narrator. Story was a bit slow

Ok, not riveting

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This is the 3rd Dillon mystery I have gorged in the past few days. It was delightful. While she wrote 50 books, she only wrote 3 mysteries : I wish she had written more. In conventional terms, this was probably the best plotted mystery. But you don't read Dillon for the mystery. She has an exquisite sense of place. I loved being in this lost time, in a secluded village with a handful of telephones and barely any mass media. I found myself envying the 'fishing Colonels', for this was a time when fishing was still a life-choice by which to occupy oneself as a gentleman. While one character reads a newspaper, I don't recall anyone even turning on a radio or playing a record. The characters walk everywhere in the long summer evenings. As in her other mysteries, the story is told by two characters. I enjoyed tremendously their complex inner life & self insight and their external courtesy & self control, as they navigated their way through the village. She is a beautiful writer, so intelligent and very funny. She has a wonderful capacity to explain motivation and the thirst for power and prestige. While the women are minor characters, one feels the limited opportunities of penurious middle class women. I particularly loved the opening section, when we meet our protagonist Miles living in genteel poverty in Dublin. Every thing is pitch-perfect : sense of place, swiftly drawn female characters, and her bringing us into Miles- inner world & his deprecating self insight. As others have suggested, it plays well at a slightly faster speed of 1.15

Quiet dry humour - a small masterpiece

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Very funny original humour. Fantastic quotes. Perceptive funny insights. Narration benefits from being played at a slightly faster speed.

Very funny

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