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Jun 21, 2023
Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
how-bizarre,
mystery-murder-crime-20th-century
4.5★
After whinging, whining & pleading for rereads on Goodreads in the much missed Feedback Group, I don't reread much, other than my beloved Georgette Heyer. I'm older now & there are still too many good books waiting for me out there.
But I think, one day, I might reread this one.
Right from the start this was a very different witty read with all the most confusing place names!
After whinging, whining & pleading for rereads on Goodreads in the much missed Feedback Group, I don't reread much, other than my beloved Georgette Heyer. I'm older now & there are still too many good books waiting for me out there.
But I think, one day, I might reread this one.
Right from the start this was a very different witty read with all the most confusing place names!
"Yatter," said Mr Raven....more
"I beg your pardon?"
"Yatter. A ghastly little place. Yatter, Abbot's Yatter and King's Yatter
Feb 13, 2014
John Frankham
rated it
it was amazing
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review of another edition
Shelves:
crime-detective
One of the best John Appleby crime novels from Michael Innes, this one from just after the war: surreal, fantastical happenings in deepest rural England. Cows, dogs and village idiots turned to stone, a servant of the Manor found dead with only his head showing above the snow, a family of impoverished Ravens whose servants and village members seem to resemble them, pigs sold on the never-never, and only Scotland Yard's Appleby to solve and obfuscate. Erudite and intellectual in the telling, in t
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If you can put up with the writing style, which is erudite to the point of pretention, and have a taste for the bizarre, then Innes will be your cup of tea.
While I am generally not sure I do like the writing style, I do appreciate the references and the plots always intrigue me. This one doesn't disappoint and there is a twist in the last sentence! ...more
While I am generally not sure I do like the writing style, I do appreciate the references and the plots always intrigue me. This one doesn't disappoint and there is a twist in the last sentence! ...more
Nov 11, 2020
Jazz
rated it
really liked it
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review of another edition
Shelves:
golden-age-mystery-pre-1950,
mystery-british
The British dry humor, bordering on farce, of Appleby’s End far out-weighed any other feature for me. Hilarious characters (Mrs. Ulstrup and her bovine proclivities particularly stand out). And how can you not love little English villages named Sneak, Snarl, and Drool? British writing through and through, though it was tough-sledding for me sometimes with all the literary, mythological and poetic allusions. But that is my own short-coming, not the author’s, who was an Oxford don. From the moment
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Jun 08, 2023
Niveditha
marked it as to-read
