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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Next up: A recent freebie, Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring by M. J. Trow.
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Quickly abandoned. Historical Fictional Mystery with Lestrade as the main character? Sounds great. But I never got to Lestrade. The 'humorous' byplay between Disraeli and Gladstone was enough to make me abandon this with extreme prejudice. If it had been physical, it would not have been tossed lightly aside, but thrown with great force.
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I actually went back to read this again, as a set of contemporary cozy mysteries by the same author are on special offer and looked interesting. I wondered if I had been over-hasty in my judgement.
I was not.