Lizzie Martin & Ben Ross Victorian mysteries - Ann Granger

Written by Ann Granger
Read by Various
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 48 Kbps
Unabridged

My deepest thanks to the original uploader Peterg23 for his many contributions, some of which I have reuploaded here.

Description of the series by the original uploader shown below.
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Victorian mystery series set in London featuring ladies’ companion Lizzie Martin and Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland yard.

#1. A Rare Interest in Corpses (aka The Companion) [2006], 12 hours 16 mins, CD, 32kbps, read by Maggie Mash and Glen McCready.
This is a gripping Victorian crime novel set in the heart of London from a highly respected author. It is 1864 when Lizzie Martin takes up the post of companion to a wealthy widow who is also a slum landlord. Lizzie is intrigued to learn that her predecessor as companion disappeared,
supposedly having run off with an unknown man. But when the girl’s body is found in the rubble of one of the recently demolished slums around the prestigious new railway station at St Pancras, Lizzie begins to wonder exactly what has been going on.
She has re-made the acquaintance of a childhood friend, now Inspector Benjamin Ross, and with his help starts to investigate, risking her life to unearth the truth about the death of a girl whose fate seems interlinked with her own…

#2. A Mortal Curiosity [2008], 10 hours 53 mins, 32kbps, read by Maggie Mash and Laurence Kennedy (thanks to Marybeth)
Lizzie Martin, lady’s companion, has been sent from London to the New Forest to comfort a young woman whose baby has tragically died. A sad enough task, but things take an even darker turn when a rat-catcher is found murdered,
and the young woman is discovered beside the body, crying and covered in blood. Not knowing where else to turn, Lizzie calls upon her friend Inspector Ben Ross to solve the horrific crime.

#3. A Better Quality of Murder [2010], 10 hours 21 mins, 48kbps, read by Maggie Mash and Laurence Kennedy (thanks to Paranoid)
As Inspector Ben Ross of Scotland Yard walks homeward one Saturday night in late October 1867, the fog that swirls around him is like a living beast. By the time it has lifted next morning a woman lies murdered in Green Park.
Allegra Benedict was the beautiful Italian wife of an art dealer in Piccadilly. But what had she been doing in London that afternoon, and why had she been selling her brooch in the Burlington Arcade just hours before her death?
As Ben begins his investigation, his wife Lizzie - with the help of their maid Bessie - looks into Allegra’s private life and uncovers more than one reason why someone might want her dead…

#4. A Particular Eye for Villainy [2012], 11 hours 14 mins, 48kbps, read by Maggie Mash and Laurence Kennedy
Lizzie and Ben return to investigate a brutal murder in this Victorian mystery When Mr Thomas Tapley, a respectable but down-at-heel gentleman, is found bludgeoned to death in his sitting room, his neighbour Inspector Benjamin Ross of Scotland Yard rushes to the scene.
Little is known about the elusive man, until his cousin, Mr Jonathan Tapley, QC, comes forward and exposes the truth of Thomas’ tragic past. As the list of suspects begins to mount, Ben can’t help wondering how much of the truth is really being revealed……

#5. The Testimony of the Hanged Man [2014], 9 hours 21 mins, 48kbps, read by Maggie Mash and Laurence Kennedy (thanks to Antoek)
A hanged man would say anything to save his life. But what if his testimony is true? When Inspector Ben Ross is called to Newgate Prison by a man condemned to die by the hangman’s noose he isn’t expecting to give any credence to the man’s testimony.
But the account of a murder he witnessed over seventeen years ago is so utterly believable that Ben can’t help wondering if what he’s heard is true. It’s too late to save the man’s life, but it’s not too late to investigate a murder that has gone undetected for all these years…

#6. The Dead Woman of Deptford [2016], 8 hours 45 mins, 48kbps, read by Gareth Armstrong and Julia Barrie (thanks to Antoek)
On a cold November night in a Deptford yard, dock worker Harry Parker stumbles upon the body of a dead woman. Inspector Ben Ross is summoned from Scotland Yard to this insalubrious part of town, but no witness to the murder of this well-dressed middle-aged woman can be found.
Even Jeb Fisher, the local rag-and-bone man, swears he’s seen nothing. Meanwhile Ben’s wife, Lizzie, is trying to suppress a scandal: family friend Edgar Wellings has a gambling addiction and no means of repaying his debts. Reluctantly Lizzie agrees to visit his debt collector’s house in Deptford,
but when she arrives she finds her husband is investigating the murder of the woman in question. Edgar was the last man to see Mrs Clifford alive, and he has good reason to want her dead, but Ben and Lizzie both know that a case like this is rarely as simple as it appears…….