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Damsel in Distress
- A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery, Book 5
- Narrated by: Mia Chiaromonte
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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Summary
In spring a young man’s fancy will turn to love, and the Honorable Phillip Petrie is no exception. Daisy’s chum is totally smitten with Miss Gloria Arbuckle, daughter of a millionaire Yank. But before the enthusiastic suitor can pop the question, his beloved is abducted. As a distraught Mr. Arbuckle begins assembling the ransom, Phillip enlists Daisy to help him recover his missing sweetheart.
Strictly forbidden to contact Scotland Yard, Daisy must resist the temptation to bring dashing Detective Inspector Alec Fletcher on to the case. But as she closes in on the abductors’ rural hideaway, she begins to suspect that Gloria isn’t the only fair damsel whose life hangs in the balance.
The fifth whodunit in Carola Dunn’s stylish cozy mystery series set in 1923 England once again features British heiress and Town and County writer Daisy Dalrymple.
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- PJ van Zetten
- 01-08-21
Easy undemanding listening
The narrator’s mangling of english pronunciation is positively excruciating. Yes I know we put in seemingly unnecessary syllables and cut out some that are there. Heck, that is english. If you are pretending to be english, learn the correct way, please!
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- Amazon Customer
- 13-05-22
Please, please, please: Stop
Surely if you are going to narrate a story with unfamiliar words, you'll endeavour to look up the pronunciation? The narration is excruciating, especially when you know the area extremely well and each place name is mangled.
Malvern is Mawl vurn not Mal vurn.
Bredon is Bree Don not Bray Don.
Gloucestershire is Glostuh sheer, not Gl ow stuhsheer.
Worcester is Woostuh, not Wur Chester.
I could go on. I wish the narrator wouldn't.
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- Mixdell
- 06-09-21
Narrator ruins all
The narrator can’t say the simplest words accurately. She hasn’t done any research at all into the pronunciations of place names and she can’t do any accent other than American, her native accent. The plot was easy to unravel from the beginning, but the stories are quite sweet and the characters, although stereotypical, are likeable. The narrator ruins the entire thing though, ihand shouldn’t be in this business. She is an insult to all of the incredible narrators on Audible.
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- Elizabeth Hudson
- 30-12-18
Romping Adventure.
An excellent story once you get past the shocking mispronunciation of the English place names.
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- Susan
- 20-07-22
Enjoyable story
The Dalrymple series is a bit formulaic, but you know what you are getting and on this occasion the plot forms an enjoyable story. Particularly suited to being an audiobook to listen to as one is falling asleep as it is well paced and easy to rewind and pick up the threads.
It is spoiled only by the failure of the production company and the narrator to check the pronunciation of English place names which is sloppy and irritating.
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- Mrs
- 24-04-22
Love these stories
I love these stories, but the narrator is terrible. I have no idea what accent she is trying to put on but its not english in the 1920s.
Such a shame as the books really are very easy to listen to!
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- marion
- 06-06-18
Dreadful narrator
I have tried, twice yearly since 2015, to listen to this book and have failed each time - the narrator mangles virtually every other word thinking, I can only presume, that she is using an English accent - no she isn't!! Today I managed 2 minutes - will now delete it.
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- EMD
- 26-08-22
The Ruination of Daisy Dalrymple for a UK audience
Despite the joy and exuberance of the original story, the narrator was appalling. Setting aside the fact that she is an American reading a quintessentially English story with 1920s aristocracy and upper middle class characters, she missed at every opportunity. Rarely have I listened to someone who 'murdered' the story with almost 100% mispronuniation and casual inflections and cadences... for example, rest Oring for restoring, Geraldeen instead of Geraldine and don't even get me started on the way she said Blenheim Palace. Dear God Almighty; what a talking disaster! There are so many English/UK actresses who could have done this justice. Why didn't you choose one?
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- alison
- 18-08-21
Narrator!
The narrator needs to learn how to pronounce accents properly or just not do them, it spoiled an otherwise enjoyable read
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- wamjam
- 28-08-22
A gentle cosy listen
This is the 5th book in the series and I think it is my favourite. As with the previous books, the narrating was a little difficult at first as the English accent is very ....strange, however I have got used to it and for me it isn't a dealbreaker.
It is another cosy, easy listening book to get you through tedious tasks. Gripping , it is not, but a real escape from the everyday bad news of the moment and a small window into a past world which may not have ever really existed but does reflect a gentler pace of life.
In this book Daisy an independent gal (for the day) and Alec a Chief inspector of Scotland Yard, move their relationship forward towards matrimony, with a proposal.
I gave 5 stars for lots of reasons but not least because it is an Included title. Thank you audible!
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