Bettie's Books

A Nice Class of Corpsemp3 - 5 hrs 5 minswritten and read by Simon Brett rec by Gerryrec for Libbeth, Donna, Hayes, light mystery loversblurb - Mrs Melita Partridge,a regular series creation of Mr Brett, has been called a kind of anti-Miss Marple and I can see what is being hinted at for while cast in the same fictional mould of of elderly lady snoop she is some way away from being the cosy old grandmother type who inhabit the closed world of British crime novels with a genteel setting. For one thing her late husband was a burglar and she has retained contacts with the criminal elements albeit not the more thuggish elements. Events are centred around the Devereux Hotel in Littlehampton.It is a residential hotel with nought but permanent residents. Residents begin dying,ostensibly accidently but we as readers are made privy to the thoughts of the murderer, for indeed the crimes are murder.The body count begins to mount while Mrs P pursues her investigations with a little help from her criminal friends... Class-ridden pursed lip snobbery on show here, you can just hear the clucking eeews and icks of self-righteous priggery underlying the caricatures characters. 2.5*