A review by tommyro
A Scandal in Belgravia by Robert Barnard

4.0

While the residents of Britain's former colonies may show their contempt for their former colonial rulers in books, plays, memoirs and movies, no one is better at despising the English than the English themselves. The really great English writers are masters at showing how their fellow countrymen and women are despicable. Robert Barnard, in his brilliantly understated style, is one of the best of the English chroniclers of the awfulness of the English.