Terror in Topaz
A Harriet Gordon Mystery, Book 4
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Terror in Topaz
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Narrated by:
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Catherine Bilson
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Written by:
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A.M. Stuart
About this listen
The next instalment in the riveting HARRIET GORDON MYSTERIES.
The chance to pursue a new opportunity takes Harriet and her brother Julian, to Kuala Lumpur, but death is waiting…
Singapore 1910: Harriet Gordon has been dismissed from the job she loved and finds herself cast adrift. When her brother receives an invitation to visit a prestigious school in Kuala Lumpur, she and Julian decide to leave Singapore behind for a few days, but their pleasant visit takes a dark turn when a visitor to the school is shot dead on the front steps of the headmaster’s bungalow.
After being suspended from the Straits Settlements Police, Inspector Robert Curran has disappeared on a personal quest to find a missing girl, but his suspension is not all it appears and he receives secretive orders to investigate the mysterious Topaz Club, which seems to be at the center of high-level corruption within the colonial government of Malaya.
The uninvestigated death of a woman with links to the Topaz Club brings Harriet and Curran together in a determination to shut down the notorious establishment for good.
But a devious criminal stands in the way and it is going to take Harriet and Curran all their resources to bring justice for the victims of the Topaz Club and in doing so, find what it is they have been looking for in each other.
©2023 Alison Brideson (P)2024 Alison BridesonWEIRDLY, though, the performance includes a MASSIVE error, one which is rather mind-boggling. The narrator continually voices an Indian character as speaking recent-Chinese-immigrant accented English. This is mind-boggling, because it’s not like the narrator had no access to any examples of real-life Indian English as well as to information showing that the 1910s accent is quite close, if not the same even, to today’s. I mean, seriously!!! iPhones even include an option to have Siri speak with an Indian English accent! (Oh, and, it’s debatable whether or not what accent she chooses to use for an actual recent-Chinese-immigrant [aka the same accent as she uses for Indian English] is wholly accurate, especially since the character is from Hong Kong.)
Excellent story; weirdly BAD performance
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