Snobbery with Violence
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An Edwardian murder mystery After a brief and ill-advised dalliance with the Suffragette movement, Lady Rose Summer's debut in high society turns out to be a complete disaster. Rose's father suspects that her fiance, Sir Geoffrey Blandon, is a first-class scoundrel and calls in Captain Harry Cathcart to investigate. After her scandalous public break-up with Blandon, Rose attends the last-chance soiree at Telby Castle for aristocratic women with dubious matrimonial prospects. But when a malicious guest is found dead in suspicious circumstances, Rose becomes far more interested in discovering the truth than in landing a suitor. As Harry and Rose begin to unravel this web of lies and rumours, a clever murderer sets out to make Rose's disastrous first season her last.
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4 primary books#1 in Edwardian Murder Mysteries
Edwardian Murder Mysteries is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2003 with contributions by Marion Chesney and M.C. Beaton.
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Ik las eerder al een aantal boeken van haar Agatha Raisin serie en deze vond ik super. Een beetje een moderne Agatha Christie. Dit boek, echter, was nogal geforceerd. Geen enkele keer voelde ik me meegezogen in het verhaal. De steeds wisselende gezichtspunten deden daar ook geen goed aan. Al bij al vrij ontgoocheld.
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I suppose the main couple is Rose and Harry, though I don't like Rose. Too dishwater and YA “strong heroine” for my taste. And Harry... I don't get him. He's a bit too fluid, always adjusting to the part he's supposed to be playing, a bit robotic.
I love Daisy, though. Beckett is a darling, too.
I'm not too fond of Marion's ideas of the upper class and Edwardian England. There is obviously social criticism, and I believe she wrote Rose and Harry deliberately dumb because they are both nobles. Also, I suppose she has her own formulas. I need to read more to see how these people fit the pattern. So far I have only read Agatha Raisin books (not all of them, just the 9 first ones)
I think Marion Chesney is a great author because even with all this criticism, I don't mind reading these books. Right now I'll only touch some books to get more ammunition against the author, and their books always make me irritated. :-D
The murder mystery part... it's really not a murder mystery. Sure, there are murders, and we get to know whodunnit and how, and all that, but it's not something... it's more a side note on the story.
It also felt a bit... fake.
I don't think Edwardians believed you can cure STDs by sleeping with a virgin - or that people spoke of STDs, sex etc. as freely as they did in this book.
