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  • The Cambridge Murders

  • By: Glyn Daniel
  • Narrated by: Peter Wickham
  • Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (70 ratings)

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The Cambridge Murders

By: Glyn Daniel
Narrated by: Peter Wickham
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Fisher College at Cambridge lies between St John’s and Trinity Colleges. Here one morning the bed makers and gyps, clamouring for admission on the last day of term were admitted to find, lying across the path, the body of one of the college porters.

The murder of the porter begins a mystery which deepens when it is found that the unpopular Dean of the college is missing. The search for the murderer is conducted in part by the police and partly by the Vice President of Fisher College Sir Richard Cherrington, an eminent but slightly eccentric archaeologist with a penchant for amateur detection.

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Really enjoyed a good, very British murder

The narrator was most excellent. Able to do many voices well. Am looking for other books with same.

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Enjoyable but overlong and repetitive

I was intrigued by the murder mystery in the book but the constant repetition of the clues and suspect statements made it hard to sustain my interest. The case is looked at by three different individuals, an eccentric college don and archaeologist, a local police inspector, and a Scotland Yard man. They spend so much of their time analyzing the same information, both internally and in spoken dialogue, that the story loses momentum and fizzles at the end. The reader sees little of an actual investigation.

I was especially taken aback when mild manner archeologist and Fisher College vice-president, Sir Richard Cherrington, goes off on a long diatribe about human suffering after he unmasks the killer. It was totally out of character.

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Sherlock Would Be Proud

Good old fashioned detective work updated skillfully. A regular "Who Done It" written so smoothly updated that I didn't think of Sherlock until it was over.

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The Cambridge Murders

To many caricatures and to many plots but I made it through to a excellent ending.

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Exhausting

The story drowns in minutiae. The ending is unremarkable. I should have given up the struggle to finish.

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Good Story Very Long Winded

so this was a VERY unnecessarily complicated story. they told and retold the story which I found tedious. otherwise I liked the characters and when they FINALLY got to the end it all seemed so simple.

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Too much repartition.

Too long due the repartition of the facts of the case. A minimum of 4 complete reiterations.

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