- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Robinson Publishing; First Thus edition (18 Oct 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1841196398
- ISBN-13: 978-1841196398
- ASIN: 1841195871
- Product Dimensions: 19 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 144,854 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'This is a witty and meticulous recreation of the class-ridden middle England of the 1930s... a perfect example of golden-age mystery traditions with the cobwebs swept away, for the many readers who like their sleuthing elegant and their sex and violence concealed behind the curtains.' - The Guardian; 'Roberts' use of period detail... gives the tale terrific texture. Recommend this one heartily to history-mystery devotees.' - Booklist; 'A classic murder mystery with as complex a plot as one could hope for and a most engaging pair of amateur sleuths whom I look forward to encountering again in future novels.' - Charles Osborne, author of The Life and Times of Agatha Christie
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Second in the popular Lord Edward Corinth murder-mystery series; This exciting 1930s murder-mystery is the second in the Lord Edward Corinth/Verity Browne series, following the success of David Roberts' first book Sweet Poison. Corinth returns to London after six months in New York to find his sleuthing partner, journalist Verity Browne, Insisting he investigate a murder in Madrid. It is 1936 and Spain is about to erupt into civil war. Verity is now correspondent for a national newspaper and passionately committed to defending the Spanish republic against the Fascist threat. Her lover, David Griffiths-Jones, a senior figure in the Communist Party, has been convicted of murder and Verity appeals to Edward to help save him from the firing squad, even though she knows he sees him as his rival in love
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I was moved to write this review as a five star review below stated "This is a fantastic book and a must for any fans of Agatha Christie or Dorothy L. Sayers, although in terms of detail and character development David Roberts is a far superior writer to either"
As DLS's Wimsey novels are considered by many well informed people to be both the birth of the litery crime novel and the greatest of all dectective novels I find this comment to be beyond belief. Even Agatha Christie is a better writer than Mr Roberts, and far better at creating plots.
This series suffers from being written with the hindsight of history and being just a little bit boring. Like another reviewer I may read others in the series but only if I find them in stock at the library.
As DLS's Wimsey novels are considered by many well informed people to be both the birth of the litery crime novel and the greatest of all dectective novels I find this comment to be beyond belief. Even Agatha Christie is a better writer than Mr Roberts, and far better at creating plots.
This series suffers from being written with the hindsight of history and being just a little bit boring. Like another reviewer I may read others in the series but only if I find them in stock at the library.
17 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Its 1936 and, since we left him six months ago at the conclusion of the dark actions at Mersham Castle in Sweet Poison, Lord Edward Corinth has spent his time in New York falling out of love. Meanwhile Verity Browne has spent a slightly more interesting time in Madrid discovering the joys of sex, reporting on the lead-up to the Spanish Civil War and getting more involved in the Communist Party. When Verity's revered ex-lover and political mentor is found guilty of murder by the Spanish authorities, Lord Edward leaps upon his white charger (in this case a de Havilland Dragon Rapide from Croydon Aerodrome) to extricate the fellow from jail by discovering who really did the dirty deed. Before you can say "viva Franco" the body count is raising both in Spain and back in Blighty.
The novel like its predecessor is highly historically accurate and there-in lies one of the problems as all the characters are portrayed as extremes of their time and consequently none come across as a likable or even believable.
Lord Edward is an almost carbon copy of Lord Peter Wimsey right down to his unrequited love for a professional female who his family find perplexing. But unlike Wimsey, Corinth is a disappointing detective. He stumbles on various truths because they literally come up to him and slap him in the face. He is helped because the police are so incompetent as to beggar belief (I'm not going to give the game away but the major clue in a police photograph that the boys in blue ignore is just plain stupid).
This isn't Dorothy L Sayers, the heroine's totally redundant and, for a whodunit explicit, sex scene proves that and I don't remember Lord Peter leaping into bed with another 'gal' seconds after saying goodbye to Harriet Vane the way Lord Edward does having taken his leave from Verity. More importantly the story telling is not in the same league. Miss Sayers knew how to tweak interest by giving all the information the reader needed throughout the story in little snippets liberally surrounded by red herrings. Like in Sweet Poison, David Roberts relies on an individual revealing an hitherto totally unrecorded history and event, which brings the story together for an unsatisfactory conclusion.
I won't be buying the next volume in the series in hardback. I might purchase the cheaper paperback to follow the adventures of Corinth and Browne but for the history rather than the detection.
Format:Paperback
Unfortunately, the author falls into the same trap he did, with the mystery, 'Sweet Poison'. The characters of Lord Corinth and Verity are likeable, if slightly, unbelievable. The murder mystery angle is extremely dull, drawn-out and once resolved isn't particularly satisfying. All the country-hopping the characters do isn't terribly thrilling and their detective skills are negligible. The sense of time and place is not un-interesting but the book seems to lack focus and wanders around like the characters, when really it should, like them, get on with it.
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