Attain Hasty Death (Edwardian Murder Mysteries, #2) Narrated By Marion Chesney Delivered In Leaflet

second of her Edwardian mysteries about Lady Rose, Captain Cathcart, and their devoted servants, Trying for independence, Lady Rose gets kidnapped, is committed to an asylum, and once again becomes embroiled in murder, while the dashing captain finds himself finding lost dogs, solving murders, and becoming the object of his spinster secretary's affections! Eager to join the working classes, Lady Rose Summer has abandoned the comforts of her parents' home to become selfsupporting.
But life as a working woman isn't quite what Rose had imaginedlong hours as a typist and nights spent in a dreary women's hostel are not very empowering when you're poor, cold, and tired.
Luckily for Rose, her drudgery comes to a merciful end when she learns of the untimely death of an acquaintance,

Freddy Pomfret, a silly and vacuous young man, was almost certainly up to no good before he was shot dead in his London flat, When Rose discovers incriminating evidence pointing to several members of her class, she returns to London high society in order to investigate properly, With the help of Captain Harry Cathcart and Superintendent Kerridge of Scotland Yard, Rose prepares to do the social roundsuncovering a devious blackmail plot and an unexpected killer.

Again, enjoyable, although Rose's behavior is getting a little irritating, Some fun stuff, not a crazy complex mystery but good light fun, Very sparse writing style. Okay, I don't have to read any more of these, They are starting to annoy me in the same way that the Agatha Raisin ones did, Rose and Harry are still talking at cross purposes, mostly because they aren't in touch with their feelings or are manipulative arseholes, One or the other.
Anyway, Harry takes the law into his own hands to protect Rose's reputation after her parents send her off to what they believed was the equivalent of a "rest home" which was actually a prison where an evil doctor kept heiresses and charged their families for their "treatment" indefinitely.
First he sends Daisy in to help her escape and then has to shoot the doctor and hide the body to keep the story from coming out,
Rose's reputation remains in an imminent state of implosion at all times, only to be rescued by fortuitous heart attacks, etc, This is going to get old,
The hook in these books is the ongoing sexual tension between two hopefully likeable people, but I'm having trouble liking Rose the same way I had trouble with Agatha.
She is pretty spunky in some ways: she can load and fire a shotgun and when someone has a gun on her, she tries to think of something to do such as pull on the bellrope and summon a servant.

Harry would be a good character he has his war wound which hurts him when he needs sympathy from the reader and he is a younger son of a Baron who has been forced to go into a "trade" in order to live in the fashion to which he is accustomed but he can't keep his mouth shut any better than Daisy, which I find totally out of character.

This socalled "hook" plays itself out over a long, long series of books, which must be nice for the author and publisher, The only time this has worked for me was in the Hamish Macbeth series, Happy relationships are death to many stories but Hamish's varying success with women seems realistic and endearing, He isn't desperate and neither are his girlfriends, "Everything" doesn't hinge on whether he gets together permanently with anyone, He is content puttering

around as a "polis"man in his village and solving little mysteries,
Rose is not content, She is caught between eras: the Edwardian Age and Modern, Her dabbling in the Suffragette movement has shown her the future, but she is in no position to do anything about it, Her wealthy, titled parents can have her sent to India or to a mental institution if she doesn't behave and settle down with some suitable man young or otherwise.
The breaking down of barriers in society and her mind are things that normally play out through the course of a novel or a lifetime but instead are going to be dragged out interminably while the reader wants to kick her.

Redeeming factors: people actually have to pee in this story and there is a whole "charming" farting scene as if nut cutlets digest that quickly, Mlle Alice, pouvezvous nous raconter votre rencontre avec Soupçons et Préjugés
"J'ai eu la chance de recevoir les deux premiers tomes, dès leur sortie, de la part des éditions Albin Michel.
Et comme ma découverte de cette nouvelle série fut très agréable, je ne me suis pas fait prier pour attaquer celuici, "

Ditesnous en un peu plus sur son histoire, . .
"Une nouvelle fois, Lady Rose ne peut s'empêcher de dire ce qu'elle pense haut et fort et de s'attirer des ennuis, Heureusement, le Capitaine Cathcart, maintenant officiellement détective, n'est jamais trop loin ou trop occupé pour la secourir, . . "

Mais que s'estil exactement passé entre vous
"J'ai retrouvé avec plaisir les quatre personnages principaux de cette série : Lady Rose, Harry et leurs domestiques.
Dans le précédent, la femme de chambre et la majordome étaient de loin les plus interessants mais dans celuici, les deux aristocrates prennent un peu d'épaisseur, essentiellement grâce à leur antagonisme.
J'ai particulièrement apprécié que le Capitaine n'hésite pas à dire le fond de sa pensée à Rose lorsque celleci fait fausse route, ce qui lui arrive régulièrement, et ellemême gagne en humanité à travers ses erreurs.
Pour le reste, on ne peut nier que les situations ridicules et/ou périlleuses sont nombreuses, peutêtre un peu trop, et que la trame ressemble énormément au tome précédent mais honnêtement il est très facile de se prendre au jeu.
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Et comment cela s'estil fini
"Je maintiens mon verdict : je préfère les séries Hamish Macbeth et Agatha Raisin à celleci, Ici, pour moi, le style et l'époque donnent un mélange étrange qui ne prend pas tout à fait, Pour autant, cela reste extrêmement divertissant et la fin est à la hauteur de ce à quoi M, C. Beaton nous a habitué, on a instantanément envie de se jeter sur la suite ! Il va pourtant falloir patienter jusqu'au mois de novembre pour avoir le fin mot de l'histoire.
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sitelink hautetfor I just enjoy this series, Davina Porter is a joy to listen too, The plot and romance are entertaining, I will continue with the series and look forward to the next book, This is a fun and fluffy souffle of a book, populated by caricatures whod make the most melodramatic of early silent films seem like a kitchensink drama,
Pistolwielding villains pop out from the bushes, Troublesome spinsters are locked up in an asylum, or even, shackled to each other, And as for the effete young nobleman in the fancy kimono,
Im not awarding for literary merit its not that kind of book, But I did enjoy it more than the more literary books Ive read recently,
I still dont know why its called A Hasty Death, though!,Very funny with a dry wit, Hasty Death is very much like the first book in tone, style and mystery, A series of coincidences seems to be all that keeps the characters from disaster one particular chain of lucky coincidences involving a corpse who becomes unidentifiable before being found constitutes a whole side plot which just doesnt feel satisfying, because it relies so much on sheer luck.
Likewise, the detective skills of Harry Cathcart and Lady Rose are about on that level: its a wonder they manage to get anything done, but fortunately theyre a bit more intelligent than the police superintendent, Kerridge, so they do propel the plot along somewhat.


Despite that negativity, it is quite fun to read, I knew it was paperthin the whole time, of course, and even the willtheywontthey of the love story is conducted with the same chain of coincidences this time involving misinterpretation and misunderstanding, of course.
And yet. Its light enough fun.

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