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stapsreads) wrote2011-10-24 07:37 am
stapsreads) wrote2011-10-24 07:37 am
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Georgette Heyer, "Death in the Stocks"
My first foray into Heyer's crime fiction. I had previously read a couple of her Regency romances, but that's about it. This was a fairly mediocre sample of the Golden Age of dectective fiction; it felt more like an Agatha Christie TV adaptation than an Agatha Christie, if you see what I mean; everything was that bit less colourful and evocative.
This is probably not helped by the fact that I found all the characters irritating in the extreme, and am much more likely to pick up on the snobbery (of which there is plenty) these days than I was when I first picked up Hallowe'en Party. The mystery itself was mildly interesting, but I really didn't care...
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10121519/
This is probably not helped by the fact that I found all the characters irritating in the extreme, and am much more likely to pick up on the snobbery (of which there is plenty) these days than I was when I first picked up Hallowe'en Party. The mystery itself was mildly interesting, but I really didn't care...
http://www.bookcrossing.com/journal/10121519/