The Unfinished Clue

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Sparkling characterisation and inventive plot from one of the best known and beloved detective novelists of all time.

The stabbing of irascible General Sir Arthur Billington-Smith fails to stir up grief in anyone - least of all his family, which is no wonder considering the way he had treated them all during the fateful weekend. He had disinherited his son, humiliated his wife, refused to help his financially stricken nephew and made no secret of his loathing for his son's fiancée, a cabaret dancer. Inspector Harding picks his way through a mass of familial discontent to find the culprit - and find much more besides.

© Georgette Heyer 1934 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

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This is only the second Heyer crime novel I have experienced and, in the main, I enjoyed the story. I didn't enjoy the obviously-too-stupid-to-be-an-inspector characterisation of the local bobby, or borderline racist caricature of the Mexican character. (Unfortunately, much as I love Heyer's books, I do find the ableism, racism and antisemitism in them rather worrying). In the case of this book, the offence is compounded by Edsel's reading. The local policemen and the Mexican dancer have been given comic voices so ableist and so racist that there's no bearing it! I am absolutely sure that that wasn't the impression (this is the 21st Century in the UK after all) but is was the effect.
A disappointment.
annieds 16/06/2022

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