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Title: The Trouble with Harriet

Author: Dorothy Cannell

Narrator: Barbara Rosenblat

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-30-11

Publisher: Recorded Books

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 22 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

This wickedly funny English whodunit was a Mystery Guild Main Selection. Its spunky heroine, interior decorator Ellie Haskell, aspires to live a perfectly normal life with her husband and children in their lovely old house. But bizarre events and outlandish characters keep landing on her doorstep in Chitterton Fells, the charming little village by the sea. Just when Ellie means to escape her hectic life by taking a vacation in France, her long-lost father shows up with the ashes of his lady love in his suitcase. Ellie becomes suspicious as Daddy recounts the details of his storybook romance with Harriet, the platinum-blonde ideal of English womanhood he met in a German biergarten.

You will relish Cannells keen sense of the absurd as the plot thickens to include a visit from a kleptomaniac aunt, a village production called Murder Most Fowl, and missing relics of the local saint, Ethelwort. Barbara Rosenblat, with her impeccable comic timing and flair for characterization, is the perfect narrator for Cannells uproarious series.

Members Reviews:

Haskell books better on the page

Is there anything you would change about this book?

I enjoyed the Thin Woman so much when re-reading it for the nth time recently that I thought I'd find the audiobooks. There are only two available here and this is the better one, but Ellie Haskell has somehow become a minor character in a Wacky Farce Parade that drags quite a bit.

What was most disappointing about Dorothy Cannells story?

The doormat that Ellie's become. It makes the humor pretty forced.

Which scene was your favorite?

When it finally ended.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

Probably.

Lots of Fun

What did you love best about The Trouble with Harriet?

It was a cheerful little earful.

What was one of the most memorable moments of The Trouble with Harriet?

When the three relatives of Harriett came a calling. The hilarious descriptions of them by the author, and the narrator's interpretation of how they sounded when they spoke.

What does Barbara Rosenblat bring to the story that you wouldnt experience if you just read the book?

Bringing to life the characters.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

Mostly laugh, it was fun, with some sadness but lighthearted so you could feel uplifted no matter what.

Any additional comments?

The plot got a little convoluted toward the end, but the ridiculous twists and turns just made the book even more entertaining for me.

Tremendous Fun-Laughter is Good for Body & Soul

If you could sum up The Trouble with Harriet in three words, what would they be?

A complete delight!

Who was your favorite character and why?

Every single character in Dorothy Cannell's Ellie Haskell books has delightfully quirky personalities. I have read & heard about 4 of them and after the very first book, "The Thin Woman" which I laughed and loved from start to finish, "The Trouble with Harriet" has been as excellent as the first! Within 2 paragraphs she already had me guffawing with abandon.