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The Hilary Manningham-Butler Mysteries

By: Jack Treby
Narrated by: Jack Treby, Angela Dawe
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Summary

Book One: The Scandal at Bletchley

"I've been a scoundrel, a thief, a blackmailer and a whore, but never a murderer. Until now..."

The year is 1929. As the world teeters on the brink of a global recession, Bletchley Park plays host to a rather special event. MI5 is celebrating its twentieth anniversary and a select band of former and current employees are gathering for a weekend of music, dance and heavy drinking. Among them is Sir Hilary Manningham-Butler, a middle aged woman whose entire adult life has been spent masquerading as a man. She doesn't know why she has been invited - it is many years since she left the secret service - but it is clear she is not the only one with things to hide. And when one of the other guests threatens to expose her secret, the consequences could prove disastrous for everyone.

Book Two: The Red Zeppelin

"You'll never get me up in one of those things. They're absolutely lethal."

Seville, 1931. Six months after the loss of the British airship the R101, a German Zeppelin is coming in to land in Southern Spain.

Hilary Manningham-Butler is an MI5 operative eking out a pitiful existence on the Rock of Gibraltar. The offer of a job in the Americas provides a potential lifeline but there are strings attached. First she must prove her mettle to her masters in London and that means stepping on board the Richthofen before the airship leaves Seville.

A cache of secret documents has been stolen from Scotland Yard and the files must be recovered if British security is not to be severely compromised. Hilary must put her life on the line to discover the identity of the thief. But as the airship makes its way across the Atlantic towards Brazil it becomes clear that nobody on board is quite what they seem. And there is no guarantee that any of them will reach Rio de Janeiro alive.

©2015, 2016 Jack Treby (P)2017 Jack Treby
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Great ideas for the plots, but didn't deliver

The idea of spy stories in the 20s and 30s is good. The Scandal at Bletchley was a good yarn, well narrated. The Red Zeppelin's plot was a bit contrived, and the narration ruined my enjoyment; again, an essentially English story was narrated by an American whose pronunciation really grated!

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Boring

Listed to the first ten minutes, gave up. Boring narrative, boring story. Never want to read anything from this author again.

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