We are expected to believe these characters lived in England in the early 1920s and that the "detective " was a member of the aristocracy. If the writers and editors had read any authentic work about this place and time, they would avoided glaring idiocy. Worse than the obvious nonsense between the lady and her staff, the language was so far out of touch with reality that I marvel the book was published. The idea that the local peasantry would " fun run" after an enormous meal beggars belief-the beautiful English of the time has been sacrificed to modern American slang- " O.K", "tuned out" go play ball" and no lord would say " snuck out" What is a snuck out? Do they mean the part participle of sneak which is sneaked out? The only gripping thing about this book is the desire to throw it out - for future reference the authors could watch " Downton Abbey" in default of anything more taxing and learn how things were done in the 1920s in England

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Lesley

Absolutely awful

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 28, 2021

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Abysmal dross. It’s a terrible pastiche of golden crime era novels, but with none of the warmth. This was obviously meant to appeal to lovers of mid century crime fiction, but I had no idea it was written in 2020 until it very quickly became aware to me when reading that something was just “wrong”. It’s so poorly written. I usually persevere and have quite broad reading tastes, ranging from “real” literature to the occasional bit of escapism. I went into this expecting the latter of course, but I have to confess to giving up quite quickly as I couldn’t bear to devote any more time than necessary to such poor quality writing, even if it is just supposed to be a bit of light fun. Unusually awful.

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Appallingly bad novel.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 28, 2020

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This novel is the most badly written dross I have had the misfortune to come across in years. I have read more interesting essays by uninspired fourteen year olds. Unless you like reading rubbish give this novel by Verity Bright a very wide berth.

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Part story

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 14, 2020

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Not sure about the story as only received part of the book think the cutters had been off that day. Can't believe they even sent this out. 😅

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