A review by depizan
The China Governess by Margery Allingham

2.0

More like one and a half stars. I managed to stick with it, but only barely. It felt older, in every conceivable way, than her older work. It was apparently set in the 60's (when it was written), but boy does it not feel that way. I saw at least one other review that noted that it seemed more like the intra-war years, as far as character types, motivations, etc went. I have to agree. If not older than that. It's also rather plagued by offensive stereotypes, and I don't remember that being true of the older works of hers that I've read. (Which, granted, isn't that many, but still...)