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A Decline In Prophets
- The Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, Book 2
- Narrated by: Rupert Degas
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Publisher's Summary
It’s 1932, a time of crisis and doubt. Returning home on a luxury ocean liner after months abroad, Rowland Sinclair and his companions dine with a suffragette, a Bishop and a retired World Prophet. The Church encounters less orthodox religion in the Aquitania’s chandeliered ballroom, where men of God rub shoulders with mystics in dinner suits. The elegant atmosphere on board is charged with tension, but civility prevails...until people start to die.
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- Colin James
- 07-08-2021
GREAT series.
I'm enjoying learning about my adopted city of Sydney through the sublime interplay of people of notoriety and fictional characters.
Then there is Rupert Degas. Is there a better narrator in the business? l think not. l buy books based on the fact Rupert Degas is the narrator. His range, accent dexterity and effortless shift between genders is remarkable. Gentill and Degas are a perfect combo.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-01-2021
interesting read
i really enjoyed the settings and milieu of the novel, such as New York, the theosophists and Rookwood cemetry. The complex characterisation of Imogen, and exploration Sinclair's ambivalent feelings for her, deepened the novel.
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- Rod
- 28-02-2017
A faultless reader and a brilliant story
Book Two in the Rowland Sinclair murder mystery series is just as exciting, entertaining and baffling as the first.
Seven months have passed since Rowland and his companions fled Sydney in self-imposed exile at the end of A Few Right Thinking Men. The trio have begun the journey home aboard the RMS Aquitania, travelling to the USA, then onto Sydney. Three days out of port, Rowland is accused of murder when a man he had an altercation with is found dead the next morning, stabbed by Rowland’s broken walking stick.
Once again, Sulari Gentill mixes fact with fiction, absorbing herself in the 1930s to place her characters and action amongst real life places and events. The chapters are interspersed with news bulletins about Houdini, politics of the day, or the novel’s characters, while her wording is carefully chosen to match the era, whether it be about social manners or conversational references to ‘electric lighting’.
As the story progresses from the ship to Sydney, past characters return including Rowland’s disapproving brother and his companions: Clyde, Milton and sculptress Edna.
Gentill’s writing is utterly marvellous! Her characters are well-rounded and her research into the times seems detailed and faultless. Her ability to weave a mystery is realised through ample humour, surprising depth of emotion, and manipulative prose that keeps you guessing to the end.
Add to this, the return of Rupert Degas as the narrator and you have a faultless blend. Degas is a Man of a Thousand Voices. His seemingly endless repertoire of voices, accents and characterisations is beyond any other audiobook narrator I’ve heard so far, giving the audiobooks of Gentill’s novels the feel of a full-cast play. Even his female characters rarely sound like a falsetto voice.
A Decline in Prophets is a stand-alone novel, despite continuing on from the first. Any backstory you need to know is discretely filled in by the prose. You can read my other audiobook reviews under the entertainment section of the Glam Adelaide website at glamadelaide dot com dot au. The printed Rowland Sinclair Mysteries Series books are available through Pantera Press. This series is very highly recommended.
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- Debra
- 26-07-2018
great book But
Great book but half way through every chapter was repeated. could not just let run. had to stop and skip the doubled up chapter each time.
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