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Dec 27, 2020
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3.5★
This is only my second Allingham and is reputed to be her best work.
Based on this I may not go to any extraordinary effort to find any more of this author's works.
The beginning was quite wonderful where we are introduced to the widowed Meg and her new swain Geoffrey.
Allingham in a little note before the book begins says she means London is "The Smoke." But it certainly feels like the "pea-souper" fogs are The Smoke and it becomes almost another character in this book which is set just after ...more
This is only my second Allingham and is reputed to be her best work.
Based on this I may not go to any extraordinary effort to find any more of this author's works.
The beginning was quite wonderful where we are introduced to the widowed Meg and her new swain Geoffrey.
Allingham in a little note before the book begins says she means London is "The Smoke." But it certainly feels like the "pea-souper" fogs are The Smoke and it becomes almost another character in this book which is set just after ...more
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Laurel
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