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The Empire Theatre Murders
Kit and Mary Aston Mysteries (Book 1)
- Author
- Jack Murray
- Narrator
- Esther Wane
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 6 February 2024
- Run Time
- 7 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
October 1921. Kit and Mary Aston are asked by their friend, police artist Rufus Watts, to investigate threatening letters that have been sent to the performers in his family's seaside variety theatre.
They arrive to find out that temperamental magician, Javier Gonzalo, has lost his head, quite literally, mid act.
With the help of old associates, Chief Inspector Jellicoe, the newly promoted, Detective Inspector Wellbeloved, and Rufus Watts, Kit and Mary soon find themselves in the middle of a race against time before the murderer strikes again in a case where revenge is the motive and everyone is putting on an act.
After the Indiana Jones-like adventure in The Tangier Tajine, Kit and Mary Aston return to a more traditional murder mystery set in the world of post-war variety theatre just before the arrival of moving pictures and radio sounded the death knell to this wonderful realm of entertainment.
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Details
- Author
- Jack Murray
- Narrator
- Esther Wane
- Duration
- 7 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 February 2024
- ISBN
- 9798350887426
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Classic crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Crime and mystery: cosy mystery
Synopsis
Music, Magic . . . Murder—1920's Golden Age mysteries don't come any twistier or funnierOctober 1921. Kit and Mary Aston are asked by their friend, police artist Rufus Watts, to investigate threatening letters that have been sent to the performers in his family's seaside variety theatre.They arrive to find out that temperamental magician, Javier Gonzalo, has lost his head, quite literally, mid act.With the help of old associates, Chief Inspector Jellicoe, the newly promoted, Detective Inspector Wellbeloved, and Rufus Watts, Kit and Mary soon find themselves in the middle of a race against time before the murderer strikes again in a case where revenge is the motive and everyone is putting on an act.After the Indiana Jones-like adventure in The Tangier Tajine, Kit and Mary Aston return to a more traditional murder mystery set in the world of post-war variety theatre just before the arrival of moving pictures and radio sounded the death knell to this wonderful realm of entertainment.
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