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‘Let me understand this,’ he said. ‘Things have come to a fine pass. You don’t know what people are thinking even when they tell you. What do you call that?’
From the head of the table Dr. Fell put down his glass and spoke. ‘I call it,’ he said, ‘a detective story.’

He's not the only culprit in this era, but I hate how Carr writes his romantic heroines. If they're not pretty airheads who "gurgle" (ew) incessantly, they're bluestocking shrews whom the romantic hero needs to break into being the gurgly airhead, what Carr thinks is "feminine" or "womanly". It's in every damn book. Ugh.