The Piccadilly Murder

By: Anthony Berkeley

Narrated by: Mark Bowen

The Piccadilly Murder is a 1929 mystery detective novel by the British writer Anthony Berkeley.

Ambrose Chitterwick is a witness to the death of a lady in the lounge at the Piccadilly Palace Hotel, shortly after her companion dropped something into her coffee. Chief Inspector Moresby is convinced she was murdered by him her nephew and sole heir, Major Sinclair, using prussic acid. He arrests Sinclair and plans to use Chitterwick as starwitness for the prosecution. However, nagging doubts in Chitterwick's mind lead him to turn amateur detective and find the real truth.

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Quirky, elaborate story. Terribly miscast reader.

This is an elaborately constructed mystery in the class English mode, where it is also set. Entertaining, if a little slow. However, the reader is terribly miscast. First, because he has a strong American accent, completely wrong for the setting, and second because he frequently mispronounces words: for example, ves-TI-bule, and sole ma-NURE (meuniere)! He also frequently gets the emphasis wrong in reading the sentences, which makes them hard to understand. You wonder where the producer was during the recording.

Terrible narrator

This is a great story - but don’t buy this version. The narrator is just not a good match. There is another version with a much better narrator. Get that one.