The Sleleton In The Closet by MC Beaton
Read by................... Donada Peters
Abr/Unabr................ Unabridged
Genre...................... Fiction - Mystery
Source.................... Cassette Tapes
Encoder................... Fraunhofer (JetAudio 6.2)
Encoded at.............. CBR 32 kbit/s 22050 Hz Mono
# Of MP3 Files......... 8
Total Size.................106 Mb
Total Runtime.......... 5 hours 40 mins
Synopsis:
Taking a break from her two long-running series (Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth), Beaton introduces a pair of engaging misfits whose struggles to cope with overbearing families and overweening circumstances teach them, eventually, to rely on each other. When diffident fortyish virgin Fellworth Dolphin's mother dies, he finds himself surprisingly relieved and freed from a bondage he was only partially aware of. That's nowhere near the astonishment he feels when he learns that, in spite of their penurious existence, he's heir to a large sum. In a moment of panic, when it seems an aunt might assume the tyrannical role his mother once played, Fell pretends an engagement to mousy waitress Maggie Partlett. In fits and starts, Maggie and Fell begin their separate transformations--she to a swan, he to a drake. One catalyst is the money and its questionable provenance--perhaps the result of an infamous train robbery that occurred many years ago and that Fell's father might have been involved with. The other is the transformation wrought by their shared investigation and their shared lives, as Maggie falls in with the pretended engagement for her own purposes. Various relatives and villains attempt to derail the couple as they journey, but there's never a question of where the author is taking her odd couple, and never a doubt they will arrive safely. The trip will delight fans of either of Beaton's other series.
1-3 of 8
Replies
I grabbed this from the library shelves, thinking it to be one of the two series.
Big mistake.
Of all her books, this was, to me, the least satisfying in every respect. The character development, the plotting, the setting, and the very predictable outcome were beneath the standard set by her other books. This is cloer to a Harlequin than it is to Hamish and nearer to the agony columns than to Agatha.
The Sleleton In The Closet by MC Beaton
7-8 of 8
07_The_Skeleton_In_The_Closet.mp3
08_The_Skeleton_In_The_Closet.mp3
The Sleleton In The Closet by MC Beaton
4-6 of 8
04_The_Skeleton_In_The_Closet.mp3
05_The_Skeleton_In_The_Closet.mp3
06_The_Skeleton_In_The_Closet.mp3