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11/2024 reread: solid 4 stars this time for me, for the humor and lightheartedness- definitely a case of right book at the right time.
2023 first read: 3.75, good and entertaining, humorous and a decent mystery, but just shy of 4 stars. Lady Lupin is delightfully ditzy, often unintentionally funny through her cluelessness, like a female Bertie Wooster. I enjoyed this GA village murder mystery, but just don’t know how she’ll be an effective amateur sleuth in future books, she’s rather dim!
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2023 first read: 3.75, good and entertaining, humorous and a decent mystery, but just shy of 4 stars. Lady Lupin is delightfully ditzy, often unintentionally funny through her cluelessness, like a female Bertie Wooster. I enjoyed this GA village murder mystery, but just don’t know how she’ll be an effective amateur sleuth in future books, she’s rather dim!
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Lady Lupin Lorrimer, a scatterbrained society beauty, has married the much older but very attractive Vicar of Granville, a parish in Susses, and expects to find life very quiet compared to the social whirl she has enjoyed in London. Instead she finds herself overwhelmed with parish duties, being expected to cope with the Sunday School, Mothers Union, Girl Guides etc. She has this exchange with her husband:
“Andrew, how is it that plain parsons ever get married?”
“I suppose they have hearts of gold ...more
“Andrew, how is it that plain parsons ever get married?”
“I suppose they have hearts of gold ...more
I absolutely loved Lady Lupin and literally laughed out loud many times as she is gamely trying to be a thoughtful hostess and do her "job" as The Vicar's wife when she often has the wrong idea of what is going on.
Miss Gibson asked me if I was interested in temperance, and I said I thought it was horrid to drink too much; I started to tell her about one night at the Crimson Canary, when some people got tight, but even that didn’t seem to bring us really together.”
I was OK with the mystery, to ...more
Miss Gibson asked me if I was interested in temperance, and I said I thought it was horrid to drink too much; I started to tell her about one night at the Crimson Canary, when some people got tight, but even that didn’t seem to bring us really together.”
I was OK with the mystery, to ...more
3.5 stars I enjoyed this first Lady Lupin mystery-she's quite a different main character/sleuth from the normal cosy. In fact, she could be very ditzy, to the point of feeling annoyed with her. But it was amusing and a nice cast of characters.
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Lady Lupin Lorimer is a rather scatty young woman when she meets, and marries, Andrew Hastings the vicar of St Marks parish in Glanville, Sussex. Lupin brings scattiness to a new level, spending much of the first half of the novel getting everything wrong, being hopeless at events and meetings, but being generally good natured and kind.
At Christmas, Lupin asks her old friends Duds and Tommy Lethbridge to stay and Andrew's nephew, Jack, a British secret service agent, is also luckily visiting. L ...more
At Christmas, Lupin asks her old friends Duds and Tommy Lethbridge to stay and Andrew's nephew, Jack, a British secret service agent, is also luckily visiting. L ...more
This was a fun and delightful book with a charming, scatty and also slightly irritating protagonist - Lady Lupin Hastings. It was a good plot with a satisfying ending.
Also the second time that I've come across a dog in fiction called John! (Sally on the Rocks).
I have the fourth book and hope Galileo Publishers will publish the other two this year. ...more
Also the second time that I've come across a dog in fiction called John! (Sally on the Rocks).
I have the fourth book and hope Galileo Publishers will publish the other two this year. ...more
This was a fun, light read, introducing Lady Lupin, the young, attractive, and scatterbrained new wife of the vicar in a small town in 1940's England. When the curate turns up dead, she and her friends from London decide to solve the mystery, and succeed despite their fumbling incompetence. While often funny and charming, Lupin's, well, loopiness does start to wear after a while. I'm not sure I'll venture on any of the sequels but this was still an enjoyable Christmas read.
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I love comedic mysteries set in the golden age between the great wars. I did go into this book with great expectations and in the beginning was a bit afraid Lady Lupine's lack of brains would actually detract from the story. She is very hopeless in the beginning. But as the plot progresses and other less scatty characters come into view, the story improves greatly. The mystery of who killed the curate seems like it should be easily solved but turns out he liked to blackmail people, so suspects s
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Great fun!
The Gracie Allen comparison on the cover of my book is very apt. Lady Lupin is an amusing character in a book though might be tiring in real life.
Mar 11, 2011
Robin
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