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Brat Farrar
by Josephine Tey
I look at the positive reviews for this and feel I must have been reading a different book. I found the solution to the so-called mystery blindingly obvious very early on, and then had to wade through hours of stuff about horse-riding and posh people talking poshly about being posh, and how much birth matters and how important money is. I eventually got so fed up I skipped about a third of it, tuned back in for the last couple of chapters and discovered that the solution was exactly as I'd thought. It's well enough written, but the story is the ultimate in bland, and Tey's good old Tory of the Shires values, which I found quite entertaining in The Franchise Affair, simply irritated me in this one.