The Shepherd’s Bush Murders

Meticulously researched and very well written.
The narration is excellent and the accents of each character are very good.

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Great listen

The story is told very well with great detail given to the aftermath and narrated with equal quality.

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A great insight to this historic and heinous crime

The narrator not only brings the story to live, but adds context to each element of this crime as it plays out. It’s comprehensive and insightful. Great listen to all those that love true crime!

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Truly Excellent

Wonderful narration and a great tale with many twists and turns. I wish there was more like it.

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Compelling but tragic

All 5 star rating from me for a tragic story well told, it’s just a shame the murderers weren’t all hanged, it would’ve saved a lot of bother later.

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Wasn’t gripped

I normally love books like this but sadly it lost my interest regularly, wasn’t bad nor was it great, so much of it was very repetitive, just as I got interested it soon bored me again, some parts were really interesting but I didn’t need to keep hearing it over again, enjoyed how it was read though, if you can get it in the sale it’s worth a listen but I wouldn’t waste a full credit on it

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He kills coppers

If you like a true crime story then this ones for you, covers everything you need to know about the Shepherds Bush Murders

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One off the best

Truly amazing details amazing story brillent naratation couldent stop listening too this 5 starsssssss all day long

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Nicely paced interesting true crime story

This is an interesting true crime book about a little known, but shocking murder half a century ago. Nicely paced telling that kept my interest throughout

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Nothing sensational- just the facts.

The book presents the story in exhaustive detail but in an ordered and insightful way: as a document,then, it is complete but for the general reader perhaps it is too long.
We’re lead to believe that Roberts’ departure from the straight and narrow might have been partly down to Harold Wilson’s economic policy - a good try! - until a lot later we hear that one of Roberts’ former employees suggests that he just got fed up with the hard graft. Paver raises many questions that he quite rightly doesn’t attempt to answer about the personalities of those around the principal actors, but his very precise record of what actually happened and it’s utter pointlessness is valuable for former students who marched on demo’s singing: ‘Harry Roberts is my friend!!!’ He was nobody’s friend and yet it’s clear that he was capable of very great generosity at times to many people, and that he had gifts and character traits that could have equipped him for a fulfilled and industrious life.
The reader maintains momentum throughout and his impersonations are convincing and break up the otherwise occasionally bland text.
It&s encouraging to remember that Wormwoid Scubs was once a beacon of good and progressive policy and it’s descent into apathy and despair is down to government policy and the Dina sauté of the P O A.
There’s nothing sensational in the story: the facts speak for themselves and Packer, to his credit,?has allowed them to d just that.

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