Death of Mr. Dodsley

By: John Ferguson

Narrated by: David Thorpe

Mr. Richard Dodsley, owner of a fine second-hand bookshop on Charing Cross Road, has been found murdered in the cold hours of the morning. Shot in his own office, few clues remain besides three cigarette ends, two spent matches and a few books on the shelves which have been rearranged.

In an investigation spanning the second-hand bookshops of London and the Houses of Parliament - since an MP's new crime novel Death at the Desk appears to have some bearing on the case - John Ferguson's series sleuth MacNab is at hand to assist Scotland Yard in an atmospheric and ingenious fair-play bibliomystery.

©2023 Martin Edwards (P)2023 Soundings

By the book

The audiobook is very well read, but the story and mystery itself fall flat. It’s a very by the numbers whodunnit, lacking the unique characterization that better writers of the era brought to their stories.