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Title: Why Shoot a Butler?
Author: Georgette Heyer
Narrator: Ulli Birvé
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-01-14
Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 199 votes
Genres: Classics, British Literature

Publisher's Summary:
On a dark night, along a lonely country road, barrister Frank Amberley stops to help a young lady in distress and discovers a sports car with a corpse behind the wheel. The girl protests her innocence, and Amberley believes her - at least until he gets drawn into the mystery and the clues incriminating Shirley Brown begin to add up.
In an English country-house murder mystery with a twist, it's the butler who's the victim, every clue complicates the puzzle, and the bumbling police are well-meaning but completely baffled. Fortunately, in ferreting out a desperate killer, amateur sleuth Amberley is as brilliant as he is arrogant, but this time he's not sure he wants to know the truth.

Critic Reviews:
"Georgette Heyer is second to none." (The Sunday Times)
"Heyer is an author to read, this means you!" (The New York Herald Tribune)
"Sharp, clear, and witty." (The New Yorker)

Members Reviews:
Slow Sleep Inducing Narration
I have had this book in my library for almost a year, tried repeatedly to listen and failed miserably. In the end, I have heard the first chapter (really the beginning only) about six or seven times. The voice of the narrator is so hypnotic and slow that listening puts me to sleep in minutes. It does not matter what time of day it is, my intake of coffee or my desire to enjoy the book. It is a recorded knock out drug--both amazing and disappointing. I give up. I will have to read the book in print. I strongly suggest you listen to the sample before buying the book.

The Speed of a Glacier
Typical of Georgette Heyer, the story was great. The performance was an ordeal. The reader read the story at the speed a glacier migrates. This very slow speed resulted in weird pauses throught out the book and very S L O W, irritating progress. The slow delivery ruined Georgette Heyer's witty style. I finally put my I-pod on faster play mode to listen to this book. Once in a while, the performer would speed up to a more normal, natural speed. This meant that in faster play mode I missed some words and sentences. If there is another audio version of this book, get that one, not this one.

Poor narrator spoils dialogue
This book wasnt for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
I'm not sure because the narrator's wooden flat dragging delivery spoiled the book for me, but I think there's supposed to be a good amount of witty repartee and funny characterizations in this book. Wish someone like Nadia May had been the narrator. I didn't finish it.
Would you be willing to try another book from Georgette Heyer? Why or why not?
With a different narrator, I would be willing to try another book from this author.
How did the narrator detract from the book?
It was as if she believed the listener had very poor comprehension or wasn't a native English speaker. Really, flat, slow dull reading.

Baaaaad narration is ruining this book!
If you are a Georgette Heyer fan, skip these new ones until they are released with a different narrator. Ulli Birve is sleepwalking her way through - I am one hour in, and unless the plot can overcome her narration in the next hour, this one is going back.
What is going on? Doesn't anybody at Audible listen to these productions before they are released? Not only is her voice a deadpan monotone, context and punctuation are blithely ignored as she stutters her way through the sentences.