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Mad about the Boy? [Hardcover]

Dolores Gordon-Smith (Author)
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Book Description

Publication Date: July 2008
“Recaptures the vitality and insouciance of the Golden Age of writers.”—Robert Barnard

It’s the height of summer, 1923. At a ball in Sussex, former Royal Flying Corps pilot Jack Haldean investigates an apparent suicide, but everything is thrown into chaos when a group of Russian revolutionaries becomes involved in the affair. In a case involving deception, greed, jealousy, kidnapping, torture, and more murder, Jack will face an agonizing choice.

Dolores Gordon-Smith is the author of A Fete Worse than Death, the first in the Jack Haldean series. She graduated from the University of Surrey in 1981. She lives in Cheshire, United Kingdom.

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  • Hardcover: 302 pages
  • Publisher: Soho Constable (July 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1569475113
  • ISBN-13: 978-1569475119
  • Product Dimensions: 14.5 x 2.8 x 22.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,196,327 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A Jack Haldean murder mystery --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Dolores Gordon-Smith has worked as teacher, civil servant and library assistant. She is married with five children and lives in Cheshire. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Intelligent Nostalgia 29 Jun 2008
By Suzette A. Hill
Format:Hardcover
In his play "Forty Years On", the inimitable Alan Bennett refers to "that school of Snobbery with Violence that runs like a thread of good-class tweed through twentieth century literature". Well, Dolores Gordon-Smith's latest novel "Mad About The Boy?" certainly has the texture of good-class tweed, but the snobbery is only mild and the violence comfortably refined! In short, this is an eminently civilized and reassuring pastiche of the classic English detective genre: good style, fiendishly orchestrated plot, plucky protagonists, foreign assassins and suave villains. Furs, Abdullahs, balls, butlers and Bugattis (Spykers and Bentleys,actually),set the social scene and provide an authentic background to the bizarre events. Yet the sombre spectre of the Great War casts its long shadow, and thus the mixture of gaiety and threat, decency and cynicism produces an ethos of moral ambiguity - a fusion which gives the novel both its realism and its intrigue.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Mad About Jack Haldean 18 Oct 2011
By Donna Fletcher Crow
Format:Hardcover
Jack Haldean is definitely the man you want to have at hand whether you're throwing an elegant house party or trying to solve a brutal murder. (He's also the man I would want to have around if I had a marriageable daughter.) And now Jack's adorable, and sometimes difficult, cousin has to deal with a murder at her house party. Jack's efforts to help Isabelle are complicated by the troubles of his friend Arthur and the appearance of Russian revolutionaries. As delightful as all of Dolores Gordon-Smith's Jack Haldean Mysteries.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Jack does it again!! 18 Aug 2008
By Barbara Edwards
Format:Hardcover
Completely brilliant!
I loved this book!
Lots of romance, a fabulous evening ball and menacing Russians thrown in.I love classic era mysteries in grand country houses with plenty going on at all times. MAD ABOUT THE BOY? also has an absolutely stunning jacket (by Ken Leeder)which sets up the anticipation for a delicious, right good read! I loved the way Dolores G.S. has researched the 1920`s period ,the atmosphere seems so effortlessly brought to life and the repercussions of the Great War are continual undercurrents throughout the story. I felt that I could easily have slipped into the party at Hesperus(in a beautiful ballgown of course!) and had a wonderful evening,lucky Isabelle enjoying the company of both Jack and Arthur. I Can`t wait for the next Jack Mystery!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Second in the series 14 Sep 2012
By K. Jackson
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
The murders follow after each other and all the clues are there if you can spot them.

Well written and much enjoyed.
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