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Originally Posted by pdurrant
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'.
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This was my reaction when I started an Allingham re-read. She was EASILY my favorite of the Golden Age Mystery Queens, I adored her Campion series in my teens, but coming back to them I found these attitudes so prevalent in the first 8 I had to take a break, haven't resumed my re-read yet.