Title: Not much here for mystery readers!
Product review: I must confess two items, up front. The first is that I'm really keen on the Christie/Sayers/Rinehart/Tey-formula mysteries and contemporary material has never been my favorite. The second is that this work appears to be targeted more for female readers -- and, thus, not so much for me, although I read a lot of womens' reading that I much enjoy.That being said, I agree with other reviewers who said that there was no mystery here and I was also anticipating the "twist" at the end to pull it all out of the dump -- it didn't happen. Anticlimatic. I think a much better title would have been "An English Novel" and that way, one would get more of what one expected.There is some subtle psychology in the book which I credit with the second star but the alleged humor, stated on the dustcover, is about as funny as a sharp stick in the eye.I suppose this book was a-o-k for some folks but it was a big letdown for me.
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