Murder Flies the Coop Audiobook (Free)

One would hardly call them birds of the feather, but thrill-seeking American adventuress Beryl Helliwell and quietly reserved Brit Edwina Davenport do one thing very well together-solve murders.Posting lodging in the sleepy English town of Walmsley Parva offers eased some of the financial pressure on the two old college chums, but money is still tight in these lean years following a Great War. Most of Beryl’s ex-husbands have proven reluctant to spend the her alimony, which is definitely most inconvenient. So about Murder Flies the Coop when the local vicar-and pigeon-racing club president-approaches them with a private inquiry chance, the ladies eagerly accept. There has been an area of bother: the treasurer provides absconded with the club’s funds and several prized wild birds. Beryl and Edwina hope to flush out the missing man by looking at his boardinghouse and place of employment at the coal mine. However when they go to the man’s loft, they find their elusive quarry lying in white feathers and a pool of crimson blood, stabbed to death-the only witnesses cooing mournfully. After a stiff gin fizz, the ladies resume their search for the lacking money and valued birds-and right now a murderer. Beryl and Edwina aren’t shy about ruffling several feathers because they house in on the suspects. But they had better find the killer fast, before their sleuthing career is cut short.