The Mystery of Albert E. Finch

A Victorian Book Club Mystery, Book 3

By: Callie Hutton

Narrated by: Nano Nagle

Bath, England, 1892. Celebrated mystery author Lady Amy Lovell is set to tie the knot with Lord William Wethington, a fellow member of the Mystery Book Club of Bath. Amy's great-aunt, Lady Priscilla Granville, has offered to host their wedding at her stately Derby Manor House. But on the eve of the ceremony, the festive air in the drawing room is marred by Mrs. Alice Finch's argument with her husband, Albert, in another room. The next morning at the wedding breakfast, Alice falls face-first into her breakfast — dead. 

When Amy and William's favorite detectives are summoned to the house, they see two champagne glasses in front of Mrs. Finch and none in front of her husband. Did Albert give his wife a poisoned drink? Always looking for the easiest solution, the detectives charge Albert with the murder. But Lady Amy is not convinced that Albert is guilty. There are too many things that don't add up. 

In the hopes of being able to leave Bath and begin their honeymoon, Amy and William once again take things into their own hands. Suspects begin to pop up, but nothing takes them more by surprise than the discovery of a second body. Stuck in Bath until the whole poisonous predicament is solved, Amy and William are anxious to collar the perfidious poisoner and be on their way to their honeymoon. If they can't catch the killer, not only is their newlywed bliss under threat but they may not live to see happily-ever-after at all….

©2022 Callie Hutton (P)2022 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Terrible narrator

As with the previous book in this series that featured the same narrator, the performance ruins an otherwise enjoyable book. Overacted, with squeaky female voices and overbearing attempts at male voices, each sentence is read as though it’s a telenovella. If you can, read the print version. This entry in the series is a bit slower paced, and I guessed the murderer about 2 chapters in. An okay story but not as compelling as the second one.