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A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia (Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventures #1)

Clara Benson

Start date: January 15, 2022

Finish date: February 6, 2022

Discussion: Buddy reads

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Jan 10, 2022 Jill rated it really liked it

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Having read the Angela Marchmont series by this author, I had met Freddy Pilkington-Soames before. Freddy is a young news reporter on the newspaper where his mother writes a gossip column. This story begins with a dinner party held at a fashionable restaurant in London, to celebrate the birthday of a Mr Maltravers aka Ticky. There he is given a present of a silver engraved flask. Leaving the restaurant, he shares a taxi with Freddy's mother. Ticky is not feeling well and when they alight from th ...more

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Jan 13, 2022 ChrisGA rated it really liked it

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Freddie is an interesting character of unfocused energy. He is wishy-washy in his career and seems to wallow in his playboy lifestyle. He is unable to stand up to his mother and insist on doing the right thing. Yet once he is stirred up to discover the truth, he is committed. His sense of right and wrong drives him, but his innate compassion is demonstrated by how he deals with extraneous evidence. In the Angela Marchmont books, we see Freddie mature as a person and we see the beginnings of that ...more

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