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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
3/5 for The Golden Age of Murder - marked down for its odd treatment of Ngaio Marsh. For a book bearing its name to mention her fewer than 6 times in its 500 pages, and not once to discuss her work, seems rather a mystery itself. She is dismissed as "Ngaio Marsh, who became one of her country’s most admired detective novelists" that phrase being the longest about her in the whole book.
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Yeah, I did not really like this book when I read it earlier this year. I felt like it was more flash than substance and really just re-hashed things over and over.