Mark Pghfan’s Comments (group member since Mar 06, 2014)

Mark Pghfan’s comments from the The Parlor PI's group.

I'm a little further on in the book, and our detectives have finagled themselves into a crime scene, with mixed results. Abigail seems to be taking to this pretty well. I'm intrigued with the book, so far.

After a good start, I've faltered. Not because of the book, but just being busy. I will start back in this evening!

The earlier Lord Peter books weren't nearly this long--in fact this is the longest, by far. Like Sayers went on and on about Oxford, some of the books had long passages about (in my opinion) irrelevant topics. Having said that, I do place her second to Christie in my opinion!

Different interesting, so far.

I just got the book last night, and started in. It is interesting so far and certainly different from our usual read. My book has 300 pages almost exactly, so a third would take us to the end of chapter 10 or so. That may help you in dividing up the discussion, Nicole.

I was surprised that the spine of the library book has a "teen fiction" label. And it does seem a little ghostly, thanks to Jackaby. I'll wait for the discussion to go any further.

In both the movie and the book, she has children who are still quite young. So my guess is closer to 40 in age.

Actually, it is not as clear in the movie that the perp needs to be fairly mobile.

The library says there are a number of copies of the book available, so I should have mine soon. There was only one copy of the audio book and it was already out. Rats.

Tina, I was thinking the same thing about what kind of person the perp could be, and the qualities you mention (I'm stumbling around, trying not to give anything away). It did sort of rule out the older ladies of the senior common room!

Allison, not necessarily with this book, but I have skipped big sections of some books when it was clear the author was just bloviating!

I'll request Jackaby from my library.

Yes, it is quite a wordy book. Nearly twice as long as our normal books. I did find the solution satisfying, though the trip there a little draggy. There were so many extraneous subplots, it was tough to look at them all as possible clues to the solution (and ultimately, not a lot of them were!)

I can go with Jackaby, if all three of us are on board.

I'm inclined for Glass House.

Tina,

I fully agree. It must have been money. I understand they were to make one more adaptation, Busman's Honeymoon, but there was no money for it.

No the nephew is not in the movie, along with a whole bunch of other things from the book. While I like the movie, I feel bad they couldn't have made it at least one more episode, to incorporate some of the other things. After all, Have His Carcase, another on in the same series was four episodes, not three like this one.

That is my only problem with Sayers--she always seems to try to impress us with her knowledge of something. In The Nine Tailors, she goes on and on with bell ringing minutae, and the advertising game in Murder Must Advertise. Great books, but a bit annoying in parts.

I didn't realize it was was Baskerville first. It certainly has received a lot of use since then. I always thought that composing a message that was would be very tedious. Someone did the same thing in The Moving Finger, with its poison pen letters.

In the TV version, they wrote him in earlier, just to give him something to do. He comes in much later in the book. As far as the monocle, I suspect it is a bit of both. Perhaps something to show his poshness as an aristocrat.

Yes, I knew this one was wordy and if I didn't have the unabridged CDs to listen to in the car, I may not have made it through my first time through the book. To mos Sayers' fans, this is often their favorite book. Though I am a Sayers fan, I have to disagree. There is a lot of extraneous stuff to slog through to get to the end. And yes, there is not much Lord Peter until the last part of the book. There are times when I think Sayers was just trying to show us how much she knew about Oxford.