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A review by jerihurd
Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh
3.0
I seem to be on a roll of mediocre reads. I do not understand all the glowing reviews and exclamations of "as good or better than Christie." I was looking forward to a cozy English murder--and Marsh, really, really tried to deliver that. However, it was painfully self-conscious in trying to catch that upper-crust Edwardian manner of speaking: characters named Bunchy, exclamations of "what what" and cabbies earnestly swearing "Gorblimey, governor!" I'm just surprised a pip pip and cheerio never appeared.
Aside from it all feeling so very forced, the characters just weren't all that interesting, except for one, and he was murdered ⅓ of the way through.
Christie and Sayers are safe in vying for Queen of Mystery.
Aside from it all feeling so very forced, the characters just weren't all that interesting, except for one, and he was murdered ⅓ of the way through.
Christie and Sayers are safe in vying for Queen of Mystery.