River of Darkness
John Madden: Book #1
- By: Rennie Airth
- Narrated by: Christopher Kay
- Length: 13 hours 55 minutes
Description
In 1921, the bloodied bodies of Colonel Fletcher, his wife and two staff are found in a manor house in Surrey. The police have put the murders down to a violent robbery, but Detective Inspector Madden from Scotland Yard has his own suspicions. In the meantime the killer is plotting his second strike.
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John Madden Series
River of Darkness
By: Rennie Airth
Narrated by: Christopher Kay
Length: 13 hours 55 minutes
Abridged: No
In 1921, the bloodied bodies of Colonel Fletcher, his wife and two staff are found in a manor house in Surrey. The police have put the murders down to a violent robbery, but Detective Inspector Madden from Scotland Yard has his own suspicions. In the meantime the killer is plotting his second strike. Read more »
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The Reckoning
By: Rennie Airth
Narrated by: Robert Ian Mackenzie
Length: 11 hours 19 minutes
Abridged: No
Inspector John Madden-who debuted in River of Darkness-returns in a gripping post-World War II murder mystery. On a quiet afternoon in 1947, retired bank manager Oswald Gibson is shot in the head while fishing. In Scotland, a respectable family doctor is killed in the same manner-and with the same gun. What is the connection? Scotland Yard's... Read more »
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The Death of Kings
By: Rennie Airth
Narrated by: John Curless
Length: 11 hours 27 minutes
Abridged: No
In the fifth novel in the John Madden mystery series, Inspector Madden is called upon to assist Scotland Yard on a notorious decade-old murder case. On a hot summer day in 1938, a beautiful actress is murdered on the grand Kent estate of Sir Jack Jessup, close friend of the Prince of Wales. An instant headline in the papers, the confession of a... Read more »
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The Decent Inn of Death
By: Rennie Airth
Narrated by: John Curless
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes
Abridged: No
Snowed in at a country manor, former Scotland Yard inspectors John Madden and Angus Sinclair find themselves trapped in the company of a murderer. On a trip into Winchester, former chief inspector Angus Sinclair learns of a tragedy that has taken place in the village he is staying in. Beloved church organist Greta Hartmann has slipped and fallen... Read more »
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