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Old 03-01-2023, 07:50 AM   #31245
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
How did no editor catch that?
I've just finished a highly praised memoir that I found to be adequate at best, indifferently written and repetitive. But while it's not why I condemned it, this jumped out at me: "Sir Peter Wimsey"!

I can't excuse the author as it was just one of her many failings, but, again, where was the editor? The author should have been rescued from that one at least.
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