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Aug. 12th, 2020
What I read
Robin Stevens, Death Sets Sail (Murder Most Unladylike Mystery #9) (2020). I don't think it's anything like a spoiler if death of Major Character is mentioned by narrator writing up the case on page 1? Obvs this one owes a lot to Dame Agatha, though I consider creepy abusive cults were more the purlieu of Ngaio Marsh . Anyway v good, pulls off amazing twist ending.
Otherwise it was all Dame Rebecca and the Aubrey family all the time, straight through The Fountain Overflows (1957) (literally the same copy that I first read), This Real Night (1984) and Cousin Rosamund (1985). The trouble with the latter two is that a) they are coming after TFO, which is a very high bar, and b) possibly did not have the final edits that Dame R would have applied and c) the whole sequence is unfinished. But still. (And, okay, the more I have learnt over the years about Rebecca's actual elder sister Letitia Fairfield, the more I feel that Cordelia gets a very raw deal. Speaking as an elder sister myself...)
But after that I found it very difficult to think, what do I want to read next? Defaulted to Agatha Christie, Elephants Can Remember (1972): Poirot, Ariadne Oliver, an adopted child, identical twins one with possibly criminal mental problems... a crime, or was it, in the past. Late style.
On the go
Nothing, just at the moment.
Up next
No idea.