Since the death of her husband, Ursula Ottoway has lived alone in Black Rigg Cottage, high up on the fells. But Ursula's home is far from peaceful as her landlord, Marcus Grenville, wants the property back to provide tourists with a holiday cottage. After months of harassment, Ursula discovers that the illegal use of poisoned bait on Grenville's land has not only killed a rare bird but her two beloved cats. Outraged, Ursula storms up to the Grenvilles' house and threatens revenge.
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When she finds her beloved cats and some protected wildfowl dead of illegal poison, elderly Ursula Ottway threatens to expose her landlord, politician Marcus Grenville, as an anti-preservationist. Within hours, Ursula is dead . . . by the same illegal poison. Now, as George and Molly Palmer-Jones reconstruct Ursula's last days, it becomes clear that her sharp eyes and long memory had posed a deadly threat not only to Marcus, but to his chilly wife, his alienated offspring, and others. To bring a killer to justice, Molly and George must uproot a lifetime's worth of secrets and expose a nest of vicious human vultures.
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Alexander John performs this book; he doesn't simply read it. With the British accent the setting demands, John becomes alternately harsh and guttural, then educated and even foppish. He enunciates the women characters with equal aplomb. So one settles back for a manor-house mystery (sort of) as if in an old familiar chair, with a brandy at one's side. The story concerns the poisoning of a busybody and the opportunities practically everybody in the area had to do the old girl in. All of the suspects are associated in some way with the most powerful landholding family in the region. Tallyho! D.R.W. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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