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The Canning Town Murder

By: Mike Hollow
Narrated by: Simon Mattacks
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Summary

September 1940. As the Blitz takes its nightly toll on London and Hitler prepares his invasion fleet just across the Channel in occupied France, Britain is full of talk about enemy agents. Suspicion is at an all-time high, and no one is sure who can be trusted.

In Canning Town, rescue workers are unsettled when they return to a damaged street and discover a body that shouldn’t be there. When closer examination of the corpse reveals death by strangling, Detective Inspector John Jago is called upon to investigate. But few seem to really care about the woman’s death - not even her family. As Jago digs deeper he starts to uncover a trail of deception, betrayal, and romantic entanglements....

©2016 Mike Hollow (P)2021 Soundings Detective Fiction Historical Mystery Police Procedural Traditional Detectives
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I usually listen to more modern thriller/crime but with the great narration and storyline I could not stop listening and wanted it to never end - brilliant

Refreshingly Great

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Really enjoyed this book in will work my way through the series. Excellent historical details and a cracking good mystery . The narrator is also very good .

Love this series!

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Got hooked on wartime stories with good old Bernie Gunther thence Scarrows Blackout thought I'd try the London experience and found it captivating. I feel I already have a picture of the black market "spivery" and the blitz of course but the other details Hollow drops in ,like the Police canteen and the hopeless bad design of the Anderson shelter add much to the richness of the narrative for me.
But I don't see the American journalist is adding much to the mix . We are told an Englishman takes time but this is what time Britain with the real threat of death stirring loins all over the sceptre isles come on man get your bag straight!

London noir?

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Finished Blitz Detective and went straight into this one. Just as good if not better than the last.
The narrator is also outstanding and helps to deliver the overall top quality listen!

Excellent story and narration!

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As someone who once plodded the beat in Canning Town and also worked in the original Scotland Yard I perhaps had a biased reason for finding this story so very enjoyable but even without this background I am sure that I would have thoroughly enjoyed this story.

It was so clearly read, really giving the impression that the speaker was recounting a true documentary account. This in no way detracted from my enjoyment. I seldom re-listen to books but this is one book I will listen to again and I am sure enjoy doing so even though I will know the ending.

If there was a fault it was that at times I became a little initially confused with the personel.

Memories

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