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Miss Plum and Miss Penny

By: Dorothy Evelyn Smith
Narrated by: Mary Sarah
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"I do not anticipate for one moment that Miss Plum has been murdered, though I should have some slight sympathy with her assassin if she had."

Miss Penny is a middle-aged spinster living a cheerful, contented life, complete with perfect housekeeper, in an idyllic English village. Her romantic life consists of an annual Christmas card from her old flame George, and her social swirl involves Stanley, a prissy neighbor who keeps her in mind for a future wife, and Hubert, a neurotic widowed priest with an alienated son.

Into this stable life comes Miss Plum, whom Miss Penny saves from drowning herself in a duck pond and takes into her quiet, orderly home. The villagers embrace the perpetually weepy, forlorn young woman - at first. But soon her welcome wears thin. With joyfully dark comedy, hilariously odd locals, and an unexpected reappearance from long-lost George, Dorothy Evelyn Smith brilliantly evokes the havoc wreaked by social niceties, misplaced sympathies, and keeping up appearances - not to mention the urge to defend one's peaceful existence!

©1959 Dorothy Evelyn Smith; Introduction copyright 2020 by Elizabeth Crawford (P)2021 Tantor Cosy Village Fiction Suspense Mystery
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Dreadful and bizarre narration.

I feel the extraordinary accent, pronunciation, pace and emphasis were so off putting I couldn’t concentrate on the story. What a shame.

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