I would have liked to like this book; it's got a flavor of Georgette Heyer's mysteries, which by and large I DO enjoy. Where it falls down for me is in the amount of exposition - pages of it, which frankly I skipped - and in the sheer involvedness of the final solution. Agatha Christie managed to...
Who ever tires of the zany British country house murder? "But Lavinia, I don't want people staying here," said the Earl. "After the last two house parties, we agreed no more." "This wouldn't be a house party, George, it's nine guests for one night." "But the last two times we've had people here...
Oh, boy! This is a good one. Written in 1975 and reprinted by the Poisoned Pen Press, James Anderson's The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy, set in the 1930s, has it all, starting with a classical-era detective who warns everyone at the very start that he's no good at this job and has been pro...