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November 2025 group read - Winner!
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Good stuff, dialogue full of gentle acerbity, interesting main characters (widowed Lady and her diminutive but capable ladies' maid), English country setting - but it breaks the mould in fun ways: the country house is a new build, Lady Hardcastle has a racketty background spying for the Empire, Armstrong the maid has been trained in martial arts by a Shaolin monk, the local Inspector of Police actually welcomes their help. The period setting (1908) is well done in an understated way - it's becom
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I thought that the mystery was pretty good but the main characters, Lady Hardcastle and her maid Florence Armstrong, while a pleasure to read about, didn't strike me as being very realistic for 1908.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this Great Age (early 1900's setting) mystery Novel. Had a lovely charm and feel to it. Story flowed well and the unfolding of the whodunnit (or more correctly perhaps, whodunnits - as were several puzzles to be solved and not really until the end was I sure if they were connected or not). Loved the light humour banter between the protagonists, as well as the internal thoughts or musings of the story narrator Flo (the Lady Hardcastle's personal maid and assistant).
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Why does this author not know the difference between a lady companion, a ladys maid and maid?????????????????????????????
May 25, 2018
d a n i e l
marked it as to-read
Jun 13, 2018
Gary Vassallo
marked it as ebook-library
