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Strangeways To Oldham (2014)

by Andrea Frazer(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 5

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Accent Press

series

Belchester Chronicles

review 1: When Lady Amanda Golightly arrives at the Birdling Serenade Nursing Home to visit her friend Reggie Pagnell, she finds him covered with a white sheet and deader than a door nail. She notices a wet spill in front of his bedside table. Being of a curious nature, she gets down on her hands and knees and sticks her nose in the stain. She’s rather an expert on alcoholic drinks, so she recognizes the spilled beverage. But there’s something foreign in it. Murder by cocktail, she deduces. After pulling herself with ungainly grace off the floor, she hears the voice of her childhood friend Hugo Cholmondley-Crichton-Crump, whining for his pills. As it turns out, he’s ensconced just down the hall. She whisks him out of the home and sets him up in a bedroom in her ancestral home... more, Belchester Towers. She then proceeds to investigate Reggie’s death. Hugo thinks it’s unseemly for two people of their advanced age to go gallivanting around town in search of a murderer. He’d rather spend his afternoons napping. But he’s a good-natured kind of chap and Amanda is determined to find out what happened to Reggie, so he lets her drag him along. This is a fun book. The main characters are likeable and well meaning. And the story keeps its humor while we follow Amanda and Hugo as they stumble from one misadventure to the next. So, if you’re looking for a light and entertaining read, this book’s for you.
review 2: Highly likeable pair of sleuths -- not necessarily realistic but fun. Lady Amanda, Hugo with an incredibly long last-name and the butler, Beecham (or Beauchamp if you are Lady Amanda)make a nice trio.An old friend of Lady Amanda's father dies in a nursing home and Lady Amanda immediately decides he was murdered -- but who will believe her? No one so she decides to investigate.A fun, light read. I will try more of this series. less

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