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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Next up: Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers, the third in her Lord Peter Wimsey series.
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Well, an excellent mystery, and I enjoyed it, but I hadn't realised how much the casual racism and attitudes and language of the day would be on display, just because there's a minor black character. Wow. The really distressing thing (for me) is that this shows that such attitudes were entirely the norm and unremarkable, even expected, back in the 1920s, even among the 'good guys'.
Next up:
Sharpe's Revenge by Bernard Cornwell. And the previous book has shown me how astonishingly inaccurate his novels are. <wry smile>