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Mrs. Jeffries And The Merry Gentlemen (2013)

by Emily Brightwell(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

042526808X (ISBN13: 9780425268087)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Berkley Hardcover

series

Mrs Jeffries

review 1: The latest in the Mrs. Jeffries cozy historical mystery series set in Victorian England finds Inspector Witherspoon's household preparing for the winter holidays. Their preparations are interrupted by the death of Orlando Edison, a well-connected stockbroker. Mrs. Jeffries and the rest of the household must help Witherspoon solve the mystery of Edison's death, without letting the Inspector know they solved it, in time to celebrate. Thirty-second in the series, it's entertaining and you don't have to start with the first one. Put me in the holiday mood.
review 2: This was my first Mrs. Jeffries mystery, and although the mystery element was solid (there were enough suspects to keep things interesting for a good long while), it just fell a little short of three Go... moreodreads stars ("liked it"). Admittedly, I may have been able to forgive this book its shortcomings a little more readily had I already been familiar with the characters - too much time was spent on introducing us to the various members of the household staff and I couldn't get a good idea of who any of them really were. The lack of authenticity was also a problem; I don't know for sure, but Brightwell writes more like an American trying to sound English than an Englishwoman, which yanked me out of the narrative several times. But for a Christmas "cozy," this wasn't bad and made for good airplane reading. less

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