Whiskers & Smoke: Flames are Catnip to a Deadly Arsonist on Edgemarsh Lake... (Dead Letter Mysteries)
The mystery in this performance is the reader, Alexa Bauer. She has a very masculine-sounding, fluty, upper-class English voice that is completely mismatched to the spirit of the story?and to the characters, especially the children. The novel concerns a recently widowed Englishwoman and her two young children, who spend a summer with relatives in New Hampshire. They agree to take care of the property owner's cat, Errol. Almost immediately, they sense trouble in the neighborhood. The man next door insists his darling kitty has been impregnated by Errol and is in a dreadful snit. And then there is a series of deadly fires. Along the way the listener meets the town characters. Overall, a dreary rendering of a novel that is not very fascinating in the first place. Not recommended.?Barbara Valle, El Paso P.L., TXCopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.