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The Beast Must Die [Audio Download]

by Nicholas Blake (Author), Nathaniel Parker (Narrator)
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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  • Audio Download
  • Listening Length: 2 hours and 50 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Abridged
  • Publisher: CSA Word
  • Audible Release Date: 8 May 2008
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002SQ8V4G
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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"I am going to kill a man. I don't know his name, I don't know where he lives, I have no idea what he looks like. But I am going to find him and kill him...

So commences this classic story of retribution. Felix Lane is bent upon revenge for the death of his young son in a hit-and-run accident, and uses all the knowledge he has gained as a well-known crime writer to track down the culprit . The plot features amateur sleuth Nigel Strangeways, a character modelled on W.H. Auden.

©1999 CSA Word; (P)1999 CSA Word

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Well worth a reprint 26 May 2009
By Officer Dibble VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
What a start! One of the best opening paragraphs I've ever read. The story concerns a crime novelist seeking murderous revenge on the hit and run killer of his only child. The first half is in diary format as the struggle with conscience occurs and the second concerns the investigation by the sleuth Nigel Strangeways.

This is a clever and interesting crime novel. The whodunnit is really quite secondary as the 'killer' is obvious and it becomes more an issue of whether he gets away with it. There's a very well-written period feel with everyone from Johnny Weismuller to Epstein getting a mention. This is what you might expect given that Blake is actually the former Poet Laureate C. Day Lewis.

I hesitate to award five stars for two reasons. Firstly, Strangeways and femme are a pair of arrogant unsympathetic characters that make you root for the villain! Secondly, Mr Blake is really an excellent novelist rather than crime writer and as such, the 'crime' aspect has two or three really frustrating flaws.

Couldn't help thinking of Hamlet and 'conscience doth make cowards of us all' through the entire thing. This is clever,thought-provoking and well constructed; recommended.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Felix Lane sets out to murder the man who ran down and killed his six-year-old son, and fails - but then the man is murdered anyway ... and Nigel Strangways, private investigator, is called in to save Felix from his own folly. Originally published in the first half of this century, this book starts slowly but grips your attention from the first. It starts with Felix's diary then, with the murder, moves into the more usual third person storytelling, and twists and turns with great agility. Anyone who likes a good murder mystery in the Agatha Christie style will love this book.
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3 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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I admire Beverley Cousin's initiative and admit I've gone back to the Eric Amblers and Cyril Hares I found in my library, but I wonder what the Barbara Vines and the Minette Walters think when they read or have read what can really be qualified as an "exercice de style". Georgette Heyer did it quite well too. The book is intellectually satisfying. It lacks all the rest.
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