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Title: A Teddibly, Teddibly Refaned Murder
Review: If emotional involvement in a story is important to you, avoid this book at all costs. Most of the story consists of people discussing letters received from a colleague in Venice who is accused of murdering a young man on her package holiday. The effect is one of eavesdropping on a table of people who are terribly, terribly pleased with themselves, and who are for some reason confident of their own wittiness. The book is detached, icy, passive, and infuriating.The mystery itself is ludicrous, one of those plots which could never occur in real life. Fortunately, if you make it to the end, as I did, you won't care enough about any of the characters to be upset. Instead, you'll probably be angry at yourself for wasting time on this smug, self-consciously witty, piece of tripe.
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