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maplessence's review
4.0
4.5★
After whinging, whining & pleading for rereads on Goodreads in the much missed Feedback Group, I don't reread much, other than my beloved [a:Georgette Heyer|18067|Georgette Heyer|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1336748892p2/18067.jpg]. I'm older now & there are still too many good books waiting for me out there.
But I think, one day, I might reread this one.
Right from the start this was a very different witty read with all the most confusing place names!
There are a couple more pages of this!
For me, this book, although intriguing doesn't quite sustain the clever pace of the start & because there is a I sense that Innes had fun writing this!
A Goodreads friend has told me it is fine to start from this book in the series, as the earlier Appleby books are either bloated (my least favourite fiction read) or weird. I don't always mind weird, so I might seek them out. But Innes's books are hard to find in my country in dead tree format, so I might just look for the later ones.
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After whinging, whining & pleading for rereads on Goodreads in the much missed Feedback Group, I don't reread much, other than my beloved [a:Georgette Heyer|18067|Georgette Heyer|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1336748892p2/18067.jpg]. I'm older now & there are still too many good books waiting for me out there.
But I think, one day, I might reread this one.
Right from the start this was a very different witty read with all the most confusing place names!
"Yatter," said Mr Raven.
"I beg your pardon?"
"Yatter. A ghastly little place. Yatter, Abbot's Yatter and King's Yatter. Then we come to Drool...I think you said you hoped to change at Linger?
There are a couple more pages of this!
For me, this book, although intriguing doesn't quite sustain the clever pace of the start & because there is a
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romance & the author appears to have become fond of the whole Raven family, you just know they aren't going to turn out to be the villains!A Goodreads friend has told me it is fine to start from this book in the series, as the earlier Appleby books are either bloated (my least favourite fiction read) or weird. I don't always mind weird, so I might seek them out. But Innes's books are hard to find in my country in dead tree format, so I might just look for the later ones.
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vsbedford's review against another edition
1.0
This Appleby was finally a bridge too far; gobbledy-gook nonsense from the first sentence. Like, we GET IT, Mr. Innes, you're waaaay literary and you're tweaking the genre. Oooooh. The least a salty author can do is make his or her polemic readable and this novel fails at that minimum hurdle. A hard pass.
I received an ecopy from the publishers and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I received an ecopy from the publishers and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
cmbohn's review against another edition
5.0
Just finished rereading this one. Inspector Appleby of Scotland Yard is sent to rural England in the middle of winter to investigate some mysterious thefts and practical jokes. On his way he meets the eccentric Raven family and discovers a dead body. One of the funniest in this series, with that dry English humor that you might miss if you read it too quickly.
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