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The narrator is the only saving grace.

Revisado: 01-11-17

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

Not really. I mostly used this book to fall asleep, which; atleast I fell asleep.

What could Francis Duncan have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?

Totally redone his characters, plot and possibly world view.

What does Geoffrey Beevers bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

Beevers is the books only saving grace; it would be pretty intolerable without him.

Any additional comments?

The crux of the detectives (and the police's) belief that the wife couldn't have done it is that she's "too beautiful" to be a murderess.
The twist at the end was good, but the method was way waaay too contrived to go for any sort of realism, just, the the contortions he must have gone through. It was too good a "locked room" for his murderer.
The structure was weird too; it started with the murder and investigations, then moved on to the backstory, in a sort of flash-back, then back to the investigation. I'd utterly lost track of any and everything that had gone on before the flashback by the time we got to the end of it.
The detective is too moralistic, the police much too ineffectual and the characters predictable if you've ever read anything written between 1940-1960. Honestly, I felt a bit as if I was being lectured at about the importance of traditional marriage, the evils of makeup and that the police don't know how to do anything but hide resources from more able investigators.

Pretty much; if you liked Murder for Christmas this is pretty much it times two, based in Cornwall and with worse everything.

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A must read/hear

Revisado: 01-08-15

A wonderful narrator of an eerily relvant tale. The war aginst women has indeed escalated and this tale is a causion against the lengths it can go

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Exellent.

Revisado: 03-18-13

Where does Miss Marple's Final Cases rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

Final cases rates about fourth, after two similar Poirot collections and a similar Miss Marple collection.

What did you like best about this story?

The narration, and the plot twist endings.

Have you listened to any of Joan Hickson’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I have listened to several of her performances, and I love the way she can make each character distinctive. This is about the level of other performances I have heard.

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