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Date Posted: 06/22/09 10:59am
Author: Liz
Subject: PURELY GUILTY PLEASURE

I have something that is a totally guilty pleasure that I absolutely love treating myself to: murder mysteries writeen between the two world wars. They're not great literature like Wilkie Collins or Elizabeth George, but I absolutely adore them. John Dickson Carr, Mary Roberts Rhinehart, Margery Allingham, Dorothy Sayers. I'm reading Georgette Heyer right now. The scene is the Grange(large English mansion), the butler is Beecher, the upstairs maid is Dawson, the women all wear frocks and everyone dresses for dinner. The men have cigars and play billiards, and the women all wear hats and have "mourning clothes" when the dearly departed gets knocked off. Lady Billington Smith arranges the flowers every morning and the butler mixes his own delightful cocktails every evening at 8pm before everyone goes in to dinner. I don't give two hoots that it isn't Jane Austen. Give me one of these books and a bubble bath,and I am in heaven.

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[> I'm with you - you might like Charles Todd, his hero is Inspector Rutledge, a WW1 veteran, very interesting character -- Amy, 06/22/09 11:45am


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[> I get a bit precious about books but will happily read travel magazines, while nostril-deep in bubbles -- Poule roulante, 06/22/09 12:41pm


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[> [> Where are the tub and bubbles taking you this week? -- Liz, 06/22/09 10:16pm


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[> I am finishing a book called "Let The Right One In"....a translation of a swedish horror. A vampire story with threads, and some unpleasant characters, It might be a good for the bathtub?! I hesitate to recommend it as vigorously as all the reviews- anyone seen the film? read it? Tell me what was so great about it... -- Poule, 06/30/09 11:16am


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[> Ah, a Gaudy Night... -- gumtree, 06/30/09 8:56pm


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[> [> Exactly. -- Liz, 07/ 1/09 9:14am


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