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Duplicate Death
by Georgette Heyer
Another entertaining read in this series. This one has a slower-paced feel to it, not as rushed with the movement from one thing to the next and the characters' dialogues as the previous books, although this one does still have those elements, just not as much. I really enjoyed the return of Jim Kane and his younger half-brother Timothy Harte from the 2nd book in this series. I liked that tie-in of those characters and getting to reconnect with them several years later, when young Terrible Timothy is now a lot older and a solicitor, where his fiancee is working in a home where not just one murder takes place but later a second similar murder takes place!
The book starts out with a bit of humor surrounding Jim and Pat and their children and the Nanny, so I enjoyed how the author brought that same scenario back to wrap up the book! As usual, I was kept guessing on who the murderer could be as the clues point to multiple characters for different plausible reasons, though I was actually disappointed in who committed the second murder as it seemed a bit of a forced solution, though I enjoyed the book all the way up until that point.
This book also appears to take place more in the early 1950s, so there is a different feel to this one from the earlier ones in the series that I've read, but it was interesting to read the social beliefs of the time and see the differences in the eras that Ms. Heyer has written about with each book of this series.
Inspector Hannasyde from earlier in the series is absent in this book, with only Hemingway being the main police detective, with a Scottish detective as his assistant, who spouts off Gaelic that Hemingway doesn't understand (reminiscent of how frustrated Hemingway got in an earlier book with the religious zealot policeman who helped him). Apparently, the reader isn't meant to understand the Gaelic references either, as there is rarely any translation provided for the Gaelic words and phrases (and I found it hard to know what the translations were, as a Google search didn't always return with an answer, which I found very weird). Hemingway appears to have been promoted at this point from a Sergeant to an Inspector, so perhaps Hannasyde was also promoted or has retired by this point in the series? (I missed a few books in between the last one I read and this one, so this information may be explained in a previous book.)
Overall, an entertaining English mystery series.
***I received a copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.***
The book starts out with a bit of humor surrounding Jim and Pat and their children and the Nanny, so I enjoyed how the author brought that same scenario back to wrap up the book! As usual, I was kept guessing on who the murderer could be as the clues point to multiple characters for different plausible reasons, though I was actually disappointed in who committed the second murder as it seemed a bit of a forced solution, though I enjoyed the book all the way up until that point.
This book also appears to take place more in the early 1950s, so there is a different feel to this one from the earlier ones in the series that I've read, but it was interesting to read the social beliefs of the time and see the differences in the eras that Ms. Heyer has written about with each book of this series.
Inspector Hannasyde from earlier in the series is absent in this book, with only Hemingway being the main police detective, with a Scottish detective as his assistant, who spouts off Gaelic that Hemingway doesn't understand (reminiscent of how frustrated Hemingway got in an earlier book with the religious zealot policeman who helped him). Apparently, the reader isn't meant to understand the Gaelic references either, as there is rarely any translation provided for the Gaelic words and phrases (and I found it hard to know what the translations were, as a Google search didn't always return with an answer, which I found very weird). Hemingway appears to have been promoted at this point from a Sergeant to an Inspector, so perhaps Hannasyde was also promoted or has retired by this point in the series? (I missed a few books in between the last one I read and this one, so this information may be explained in a previous book.)
Overall, an entertaining English mystery series.
***I received a copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.***