Blotto And Twinks (3 books in series)
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English
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review 1: This is a spoof on a classic mystery where the amateur detectives are of the English aristocracy, every country house party will inevitably end in a murder, and is liberally sprinkled (nay sprayed) with phrases like "broken biscuits","me old ice bun" and where chaps would "lay do...
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English
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review 1: This was properly silly, a real send up of 20s detective stories and aristocracy and Bertie Wooster and all of that. And possibly the dimmest character to hit the fictional world - Blotto. Amazing he's made it into a detective duo. It was silly, but it did get a bit tiresome afte...
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English
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review 1: Hugely enjoyable froth. A clever, well observed satire of the amateur detective genre. Blotto and Twinks are an aristocratic brother and sister team who apparently often join forces to solve various crimes. While staying at another stately home, a Dowager Duchess is murdered b...