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czarina_misha's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
justasking27's review against another edition
lighthearted
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.5
gingerjane's review against another edition
4.0
I read this as "Off With His Head". Thought it was quite fab really.
igru23's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
relaxing
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
tarshka's review against another edition
2.0
Old lady is very determined to insert herself into a local tradition and things go badly.
liketheday's review against another edition
4.0
I liked that there were a bunch of clues that I could figure out, and I solved what is sort of the first mystery before it was revealed, but even with just a few minutes left to go on audio I wasn't sure what the answer to the whole mystery was. And when I heard the answer, I wasn't like, what. I was like, "Ohhhhhhh, iiiiiiinteresting."
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aleffert's review against another edition
3.0
The first few pages of this were glorious, but then it settled into what I thought was a pretty run of the mill murder mystery except that it was all vaguely incomprehensible because it assumed I understood literally anything about Morris dancing, which I do not, and is apparently enormously silly.
Also, I can't believe this book from the 50s can have a "queer bi-sexual hat" and not have a picture, much less even otherwise describe it.
Also, I can't believe this book from the 50s can have a "queer bi-sexual hat" and not have a picture, much less even otherwise describe it.
david_megginson's review against another edition
3.0
Still with the reenactment as a way to catch the criminal.
michael5000's review against another edition
3.0
Another comfortable investigation of a conventional murder-mystery novel by the unflappable Inspector Alleyn and his even less flappable sidekick Fox. This one takes a bit of a hit from the fact that I'm reading it after having read a lot of its shelfmates, and I'm at the point where the Marsh formula is starting to wear a little thin. Alleyn has had an AMAZING number of cases in which someone is killed during some kind of performance. He has found fit an AMAZING number of times to have the crime recreated by all of the people who were present at the scene. It's a pretty good way to structure a detective story, but it's not a great way to structure ~all~ of your detective stories. In short: enjoy Marsh a lot, and, I should lay off her for a while.