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The Fatal Flying Affair
- A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 7
- Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
- Series: A Lady Hardcastle Mystery, Book 7
- Length: 8 hrs
- Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense, Mystery
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Publisher's Summary
August 1911. Emily Hardcastle and her inimitable lady’s maid Florence Armstrong are enjoying a fine summer until Harry, Lady H’s brother, turns up out of the blue with a mystery for them to solve.
A routine parachute test at a local aeroplane factory has gone horribly wrong - with pilot Dickie Dupree plummeting to his death. Harry is certain there is more to this ‘tragic accident’ than meets the eye, having discovered that someone at the airfield is leaking top secret intelligence to foreign rivals.
In between strolls to the Dog & Duck and planning for the annual village show, the daring duo dust off the Crime Board and go undercover at Bristol Aviation. With international powers investing heavily in aeronautics, the stakes are high - sky high - and the suspects soon mount up.
Can Lady Hardcastle find the culprit before someone else falls down dead?
What the critics say
Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award
“This audiobook should have come with a warning: Listen at your own risk. If others try to pause it, you may snap their heads off in frustration. As Lady Hardcastle and her lady's maid, Flo, return to spying for England in the summer of 1911, narrator Elizabeth Knowelden enhances the story full of witticisms and a clever plot by immersing listeners in the lives of these two characters. Listeners will catch Flo's excitement as she discovers that her newest job requires investigation at an airfield where someone was recently killed.” --AudioFile Magazine
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- Kathie Williams
- 2021-01-17
“Absolutely Fabulous”
Never disappoints - cannot wait for the next book and adore Elizabeth’s Knowelden’s interpretation - truly awesome
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- LoveMyBOOKS
- 2021-01-14
Just good fun.
The stories are clever. The characters and dialogue are witty. I am enjoying this series very much and look forward to more from this author.
The narrator does such a fine job with all of the various characters. She is superb.
I also appreciate that the chapters are all in the neighbourhood of 30 minutes. So much nicer to listen too than those that are chopped up into tiny bits.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-12-04
Extremely enjoyable
I love this writer . Emily and Flo are so enjoyable. The mystery is well developed and the characters are well fleshed out .
I will listen to it over and over.
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- Paulette
- 2020-12-06
Wonderful as Usual But Don’t Change the Series!
I have been anxiously waiting for this book to be released. I enjoyed it as I hoped I would like the previous books. I listened to it twice already. Elizabeth Knowelden performed excellent as usual. The storyline was captivating as usual. I had thought how neat it would be to hear some of Lady Hardcastle and Flo’s past adventures as government agents or their experiences during their escape from China in future books but I really didn’t want them to be government agents again. That would have changed the whole character or nature of the books. As retired agents, they would be free to go and do whatever without being under anybody’s thumb, especially the government’s. I like how they became involved in the mysteries through personal involvement with people in their everyday life. For example, how they met Skins and his band and invited them into their home and became good friends. I don’t think it would have played out naturally if they were government agents. As government agents, this would become strictly a spy series and it would change my interest in the series. There were versatility in the previous books that I foresee may become lost in future books as it transitions into a spy series. I love this series!! Please don’t change it. It has everything that I like in a mystery story, it’s clean and wholesome, it has humor, wonderful human interactions, great multi-level plots, versatile storyline, and the solutions that you can’t easily guess within the first half of the book or until it’s revealed. Please don’t change the series!
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- April
- 2020-12-04
Wonderful
I’ve listened to each book in the series twice and have waited patiently for six months for this. Worth the wait. I love these characters and the narration is always spot on.
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- C. Acy
- 2020-12-08
Great book and narrator!
T E Kinsey can’t write the Lady Hardcastle books fast enough ! They are a fun listen with much dry humor! The narration is spot on! Keep them coming!
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- Lori Willis
- 2020-12-09
Wonderful addition to the series!
I love the Lady Hardcastle series, and The Fatal Flying Affair is a wonderful addition! The narrator is absolutely wonderful, keeping the voices and accents consistent through every book. I confess that I have been waiting for this book to be released, and downloaded it the moment I could. This book is a delightful mystery, sans-gore. Highly recommended!
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- Eleanor L. Archuleta
- 2020-12-08
Excellent reading and story
Loved it!! Would order again. His books are very entertaining and informative. Good performance by this reader.
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- Jeff Sharp
- 2020-12-07
Well Done!!
Another entertaining and well done, enjoyable story! Love the Nanette and repartee between Hardcastle and Armstrong. Great narration!
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- Amazon Customer
- 2020-12-11
Thoroughly Entertaining!
Another great entry in this wonderful series.The narrator is excellent and brings the story and characters to life. Looking forward to the next book.
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- R. Smith
- 2020-12-10
Love this series
Bring on some more they end too quickly and then we wait! Looking forward to the next
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- bigdjunta
- 2020-12-09
Funny and superb series.
I have listened to every book in this series, and I love it. The characters are like an old friend to me and I often find myself"lol" to their latest exploits.
The narrator is Magnificent and has all characters" voiced" to perfection.
I will be continuing with the series.
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- LParks
- 2020-12-07
Another spectacular mystery!
I absolutely love this series! Lady Hardcastle & Flo’s banter is top notch. Of course, the banter between the “Feather-stone-huff” siblings & Flo is also delightful. As for the over all story... it was another well done piece of Whodunit writing.
The small tidbit about Skins’ Maloney only made me more impatient to read The Deadly Mystery of the Missing Diamonds due out in March.
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