The Murder of My Aunt

Rating:
Summary: very entertaining
Review: i'm sorry...it's been about 7 years since i read the book...i remember the general plot and the author's unique sense of humor, but little else, aside from the enjoyment. hopefully, this review, along with the above-reviewer's kudos, will entice someone to read this one. i keep very few books, especially fiction, but this one was worth hanging onto. let me put it this way...i don't care much for fiction, let alone british fiction, but this book was great! i recommended it to a non-reader, and he loved it! i had to get rid of a large part of my book collection when i moved cross-country, but i knew i'd read this one again someday. it's a quick read, very captivating...2 nights with the bed lamp on at most.

Rating:
Summary: very entertaining
Review: i'm sorry...it's been about 7 years since i read the book...i remember the general plot and the author's unique sense of humor, but little else, aside from the enjoyment. hopefully, this review, along with the above-reviewer's kudos, will entice someone to read this one. i keep very few books, especially fiction, but this one was worth hanging onto. let me put it this way...i don't care much for fiction, let alone british fiction, but this book was great! i recommended it to a non-reader, and he loved it! i had to get rid of a large part of my book collection when i moved cross-country, but i knew i'd read this one again someday. it's a quick read, very captivating...2 nights with the bed lamp on at most.

Rating:
Summary: Another Classic From a Classic Decade!
Review: My goodness...is this book really coming back into print? This is one of the all-time murder mystery classics! I think the only contemporary equivalent of Richard Hull would have to be Tom Sharpe, whose intensely dangerous satires reveal (only at the last minute) that what he's writing about really isn't exaggerated at all in his novels. Take that attitude back to the constraints of 1934, and we have this wonderfully innovative "whodunit." Like my favorite of Agatha Christie's stories, and like the equally unexpected mysteries of Francis Iles (aka Anthony Berkeley), this one stands out in that the perpetrator of the crime turns out to be...oh, excuse me, you're saying you've *never* read this book before? Well, I suggest you take the time *now* to do something about that! More than a little funny, this book is guaranteed to please. Who says people didn't know before what we know today about human nature? Not me!

Rating:
Summary: Another Classic From a Classic Decade!
Review: My goodness...is this book really coming back into print? This is one of the all-time murder mystery classics! I think the only contemporary equivalent of Richard Hull would have to be Tom Sharpe, whose intensely dangerous satires reveal (only at the last minute) that what he's writing about really isn't exaggerated at all in his novels. Take that attitude back to the constraints of 1934, and we have this wonderfully innovative "whodunit." Like my favorite of Agatha Christie's stories, and like the equally unexpected mysteries of Francis Iles (aka Anthony Berkeley), this one stands out in that the perpetrator of the crime turns out to be...oh, excuse me, you're saying you've *never* read this book before? Well, I suggest you take the time *now* to do something about that! More than a little funny, this book is guaranteed to please. Who says people didn't know before what we know today about human nature? Not me!