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  • The Death Beat

  • Poppy Denby Investigates, Book 3
  • Written by: Fiona Veitch Smith
  • Narrated by: Helen Keeley
  • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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The Death Beat

Written by: Fiona Veitch Smith
Narrated by: Helen Keeley
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Poppy Denby is furious with Rollo, who has gambled away his position at the Daily Globe and is being banished to New York. That is, until she discovers he plans to take her with him to work at the New York Times! Poppy can’t wait, but her hopes are crushed when she is allocated The Death Beat - writing obituaries.

But Poppy has a nose for a story, and when a body is found in a luxury penthouse apartment she starts to investigate. She unravels a trail of illegal immigrants, forced labour, sex scandals and an unexpected ghost from her past. Poppy is determined to help, but can she find the evidence to bring the perpetrators to justice without putting her own life in danger....

©2017 Fiona Veitch Smith (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd
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What the critics say

"Manhattan, beware! Formidable reporter Poppy Danby enjoys a luxury voyage across the Atlantic. Her indefatigable and entertaining search for truth reveals the seediness and glamour of 1920s New York." (Frances Brody, author of the Kate Shackleton mysteries)

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