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Title: not one of Heyer's better efforts
Review: I believe Georgette Heyer was hoping to make the cousin Randall an attractive bad boy a la Johnny Depp; instead, he comes off as simply repugnant, like Philip Seymour Hoffman in the indie film "Happiness." Some of the other characters are simply caricatures. As others have mentioned, Heyer is tight-fisted with the clues, although the set-up is a clever one.Detective Inspector Hannasyde is an amiable and clever fellow, but readers would do better to instead read "The Unfinished Clue," which is a better mystery with more likable characters.
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