Behold a Fair Woman

By: Francis Duncan

Narrated by: John Curless

Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is back in another classic mystery from the author of Murder for Christmas.

Mordecai Tremaine's hobby of choice - crime detection - has left him in need of a holiday. A break away from that gruesome business of murder will be just the ticket, and the picturesque island of Moulin d'Or seems to be just the destination.

Amid the sunshine and the sea air, Mordecai falls in with a band of fellow holidaymakers and tries to forget that such a thing as foul play exists. He should have been wiser, of course, because before too long, villainy rears its head, and a dead body is discovered.

With a killer stalking the sand dunes, it falls to Mordecai to piece together the truth about just who has smuggled murder on to the island idyll.

©2019 Francis Duncan (P)2018 Recorded Books

wonderful protagonist

I have fallen in love with Mordecai Tremaine. He's refreshingly different from the standard amateur detective without being overly eccentric. The writing is solid, no dead ends that leave you wondering if they were just included to make up page count. I do become weary of the author's propensity for unnecessarily detailed descriptions of all the women characters physical appearance, but it's typical of this genre written at the time these are written. Unless how a character looks is necessary for the story, such detailed descriptions are off putting and I simply skim through those sections.
John Curless was exceptional. I'll be looking for other books read by him.

Great storyline, unexpected ending

This book kept me guessing throughout the story. Plenty of people to wonder about but not hard to follow. Well developed characters, unique story. Another satisfying Mordecai Tremaine mystery.

Great Listen

For any who have enjoyed the previous MT books by Francis Duncan, this one will not disappoint.

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Horrible, horrible, horrible. Don't even finish my review. Save your credit for one of the many good mysteries in the Audible catalog.

Classic misogynistic detective book -_-

Honestly I tried to keep an open mind at first but literally less than two chapters in the main character is commenting on this woman’s body and how she’s old and “ugly”. He continues to paint her as this lazy old bum and I abruptly closed my book and never picked it up again. Y’all can do better.