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psalmcat's review against another edition
3.0
First of all, I adore Simon Brett. However, I think I can safely forego the rest of these books. If you are into 1920s-era British aristocratic silliness, go nuts. This was ... uhm, far too silly for me. Stopping at the whole car-big-enough-to-hide-a-sarcophagus-in-while-driving-across-Europe....and that was just one of the big things.
I imagine this would go down better if you were British, or a fan of the era, or a fan of making fun of the aristocracy as it died.
Sorry, I'll stick with Charles Paris, Mrs Pargeter, and even the Fethering books. These are too over the top for me.
I imagine this would go down better if you were British, or a fan of the era, or a fan of making fun of the aristocracy as it died.
Sorry, I'll stick with Charles Paris, Mrs Pargeter, and even the Fethering books. These are too over the top for me.
kjcharles's review
A farcical comic mystery written in a cod Wodehouse style. Brilliant idea. Whether you find it funny in practice comes down to taste. Some very good lines, as you'd expect from this author, but the mystery was telegraphed to the point of it not really being a mystery, and the running joke about baksheesh, which is the only interaction with anyone Egyptian in a book set in Egypt, leaves a nasty taste. Perhaps this is part of the overall joke about the MCs' attitudes, like the depiction of the working classes as smelly, but the problem with writing racist things for fun is, they're still racist. Not a success for me.
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