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A fun and different cozy outing with Mrs. Pargeter. I skipped the last in the series as the books had become rather samey and weren’t really holding my interest.
Melita Pargeter is a delightful character, the widow of a much-loved, much-missed criminal mastermind. She never acknowledges his sketchy career, only remembers his loving care, devotion and spoiling, with a misty-eyed smile.
He left her his valuable network of associates with varied illegal skills, and they all worshipped the late Mr. ...more
Melita Pargeter is a delightful character, the widow of a much-loved, much-missed criminal mastermind. She never acknowledges his sketchy career, only remembers his loving care, devotion and spoiling, with a misty-eyed smile.
He left her his valuable network of associates with varied illegal skills, and they all worshipped the late Mr. ...more
I nearly didn't read this book. Mrs Pargeter is one of the buddy read series we are reading on a Goodreads group I help run - Reading the Detectives. Mrs Pargeter is the widow of a criminal, the conceit being that all his associates revered him so much that they fall over themselves to assist Mrs Pargeter in her endeavours. It's somewhat cosy and not my usual read, full of silly nicknames and jokes.
In this sixth in the series, Mrs Pargeter is summoned to a dying widow of one of Mr Pargeter's as ...more
In this sixth in the series, Mrs Pargeter is summoned to a dying widow of one of Mr Pargeter's as ...more
2.5 stars rounded up to 3. Extremely light-weight series is OK to read but the villains and some of the action veers over the line into cartoonish at times.
Just finished another in the Mrs. Pargeter’s series, the sixth and final book to my knowledge. In this outing, Mrs. Pargeter is trying to do a favor for the widow of one of her deceased husband’s friends…return all the artwork he had “acquired” during his career to the rightful owners. We follow Mrs. Pargeter and her loyal band of ex-associates of her husband, Hedgeclipper Clinton, Truffler Mason, Gary the driver and some new additions. In this book, we also meet a DI Wilkinson, who spent most o
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An extra star for a successful deviation from the prior books. An amusing crime caper that showed her husband's associates at their finest.
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