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The Serpent And The Scorpion (2008)

by Clare Langley-Hawthorne(Favorite Author)

3.43 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0143113399 (ISBN13: 9780143113393)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Penguin Books

series

Ursula Marlowe Mystery

review 1: Just starting to get interesting. I had to get my head in the British writer mode. It is also taking place in 1912 which also causes me to make a change in mind set.This book is taking so much longer to read. It reads like the era it it written in,old cars that need a crank to start, only snail mail, and ocean liner travel. I'm to much in the now era. Fast cars, cell phones, and air travel.Jan.8,2009 finished this book and glad of it. Unless you really like period mysteries on the line of Agatha Christie don't bother reading this one.
review 2: i love mysteries set in egypt so i enthusiastically picked this one up. it was a disappointment.the heroine is set up to be a strong-willed suffragette who has had many lovers. mind you, this is set in england in the ear... morely 20th century. the woman would have been ostracized, no matter that she was a coal heiress and had friends in high places. the mystery wasn't much of a mystery. it was easy to tell who was behind all the nefarious happenings. and the heroine really began to annoy when she screamed and complained about everything and never confided in the supportive, aristocratic hero. don't think i will be picking up the next book in the series... less

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