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    A Picture of Murder
    A Picture of Murder
    A Picture of Murder
    Audiobook9 hours

    A Picture of Murder

    Written by T E Kinsey

    Narrated by Elizabeth Knowelden

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Late October 1909, and the season of ghouls and things that go bump in the night has descended on the village of Littleton Cotterell.

    Lady Hardcastle and her trusted lady’s maid, Florence, find themselves hosting a colourful cast of actors whose spooky moving picture, The Witch’s Downfall, is being shown to mark Halloween. But things take a macabre turn when the first night’s screening ends with a mysterious murder, and the second night with another…One by one the actors turn up dead in ways that eerily echo their film.

    With the police left scratching their heads, Lady Hardcastle calls upon her amateur sleuthing skills to launch an investigation, with Flo’s able assistance. Surrounded by suspects both human and supernatural, Lady Hardcastle must use a little trickery of her own to unmask the murderer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 22, 2018
    ISBN9781978648197
    A Picture of Murder
    Author

    T E Kinsey

    T E Kinsey grew up in London and read history at Bristol University. He worked for a number of years as a magazine features writer before falling into the glamorous world of the Internet, where he edited content for a very famous entertainment website for quite a few years more. After helping to raise three children, learning to scuba dive and to play the drums and the mandolin (though never, disappointingly, all at the same time), he decided the time was right to get back to writing. Death Around the Bend is the third in a series of mysteries starring Lady Hardcastle. You can follow him on Twitter—@tekinsey—and also find him on Facebook: www.facebook.com/tekinsey.

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    • 5/5
      This is such a fun cozy series. The humor & hijinks are pitch perfect.
    • 5/5
      How delightful that we get full disclosure of Lady H's & Flo's back story about how they came together and became spies for HM's government and how her dear Roddy was murdered by a Russian assassin.
    • 4/5
      Fun series, and i love the authors comments at the end. Goid fun,old fashioned and charming.
    • 5/5
      This is my favourite Lady Hardcastle Mystery so far. Cosy, fun and i love the narrator.
    • 5/5
      I'm a fan of the Lady Hardcastle mystery series, so I had actually waited for this book.
      Like the other sequels, it is funny, witty, and although it didn't take me quite till the end to guess whodunnit, it was still fascinating.

      The Narrator (I listened to the audio book), Elizabeth Knowelden, is fantastic. Her narration absolutely enhances the book for me. I look forword to future books in the series (which will hopefully be written and narrated).
    • 4/5
      October 1909 has arrived and circumstances lead to Lady Hardcastle at Littleton Cotterell, hosting a group of film makers and actors. Their film The Witch’s Downfall, is being shown in the Village Hall but when one of the actors dies as in the film, Lady Hardcastle and her maid Florence Armstrong help Inspector Sunderland by investigating. We also get to hear about some of Lady Hardcastle and Florence's previous exploits.
      A well-written enjoyable historical cozy mystery with some interesting characters
    • 4/5
      Murder comes to LC as a kinematic show is a feature for the locals. The cast is died, pun intended, closely following the script. Two dotty but well-armed rustic crime solvers do their thing with apt and enjoyable repartee.
    • 4/5
      One of the many things I enjoy about T.E. Kinsey's Lady Hardcastle historical mystery series is how each book features something that was new and exciting at the turn of the twentieth century. In A Picture of Murder, it's the fledgling motion picture industry. In 1909, it's in a bit of a slump with many in the business believing that people living outside the cities will never be interested enough to spend their hard-earned money. The troupe of actors staying with Lady Hardcastle intends to prove this false by showing their film in Littleton Cotterell.This fourth book in the series gets around to telling readers more of Lady Hardcastle and Florence's background-- and no wonder they're so good at this amateur sleuthing business! I look forward to learning even more about them as the series progresses. A Picture of Murder has a fiendishly clever plot that was so much fun to try to solve, especially as its basis was something that we are very familiar with today.I'm also happy to report that the other things that have made me love this series are in fine fettle. The relationship between Lady Hardcastle and Florence is absolutely wonderful, and their dialogue is a feast for readers' funny bones. T.E. Kinsey's series is perfect when you want something light and fun, but a word of warning: Never let Lady Hardcastle drive you anywhere!