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Title: Smoke Screen

Subtitle: Dido Hoare, Book 3

Author: Marianne MacDonald

Narrator: Nicola Barber

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-27-13

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Trying to build her fledgling shop and keep her young son and cat fed, Dido Hoare, London's most intrepid antiquarian bookseller, needs some good luck. Her break comes when the aged and daunting Clare Templeton Forbes, the ex-lover of a celebrated American modernist poet, offers Dido her prized personal library - a bookseller's dream come true.

Dido's luck, however, vanishes as quickly as it arrives. First, Clare dies when a suspicious fire destroys her house. Then a valuable stolen manuscript winds up in Dido's possession-bringing the police straight to her door. Someone wanted Clare dead and Dido out of the picture. But who? And why? With the help of her father, a retired researcher, Dido leaves no page unturned to find a clever killer before he can close the book on her.

Members Reviews:

It All Goes Up In Smoke

Dido was warned, but the idea of acquiring a horde of books from Clare Templeton Forbes is too alluring to pass. Dido puts her reputation on the line to discover why Mrs. Forbes was helped to die after her books had been sold.

Anyone who has ever packed and unpacked a collection of books will feel this story in every muscle, especially when Dido ends up with a valuable manuscript of an American poet she didn't purchase and the police on her doorstep.

This third in the series lacks a little something, maybe because the cast of potential murders is too small to spread the guilt around. Fans of this quiet series, as we are will come back for more visits with Dido, Barnabas and Ernie a jewel of a computer repairman.

Nash Black, author of "Sins of the Fathers" and "Travelers."

a thumping good read!

I'm really enjoying myself working my way through the Dido Hoare books. What an absolute gem of a series! Dido, Barnabas (her retired Oxford don father) and Eddie (her assistant) are a wonderful team and great fun to read about.

Dido Hoare, antiquarian book dealer, can hardly believe her luck when she is offered the opportunity to buy Clare Templeton Forbes's (otherwise known as Her Majesty) book collection. And in spite of the warnings both from another book dealer and her father, Dido eagerly makes her way to Oxford to peruse the collection and make an offer. She is surprised and thrilled to find amongst the collection of 19th century books, a comprehensive collection of Orrin Forbes first editions. Orrin Forbes was a minor American modernist poet and Clare's ex-lover. Realising that she is out of her league here, Dido suggests that Clare get hold of one of the more prestigious auction houses to handle these rare books. But Clare refuses, claiming that she needs the money now so that she can move form her falling apart Oxford home into something more modern. (She also wants everyting done quietly and without her daughter's knowledge.) Dido is leery. There seems to be something suspicious afoot but she has no idea what. And Dido fears she's being manipulated by Clare but is not sure to what end. And then Clare shows her a manuscript of Forbes's missing canto, and wishes to know if Dido will buy it. Extracting from this rather sticky situation, Dido pays a few books and leaves. That very night, Clare dies apparently from having set her bed afire from a lighted cigarette.