Rumours of War: A Jane Dowling Mystery

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.

Portsmouth, 1905

Private detective Jane Dowling is invited down to Southsea to look into the death of Commander Granger, one of three men who are questioning the Royal Navy's strategy for building ever bigger battleships, at the start of the dreadnought arms race with Germany. The dockyard at Portsmouth is the biggest industrial complex in the world at the time, capable of building one battleship a year, yet it relies on workers who live in condi...