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Finally got around to starting this book I'd had for months, and someone else put it on hold at the library 🤦‍♀️

Needed something to read on a trip. For some reason this was in the shared kindle library and it offered hints of WWII spy drama

Is this going to end tragically for all the main characters? I fear it is. WW2 after all.

I thought I'd read all the previous Thursday Murder Club books, but there are references to plot elements in the previous book that are totally foreign to me so I guess I didn't. That one has a long wait list at my library so I'll soldier on and hope #3 won't be spoiled by going out of order!

Don’t remember exactly why I requested this book, and I’m having a hard time getting into it. Have to return to library due to someone else’s hold; not sure if I’ll get it again to finish it…

5% into the third book and we finally get a mention of the official secrets act! About time.

Didn't realize this was not Thursday Murder Club when I requested it!

(Have to return to library)
(I think I learned about this book bc of the night watchman chapter? Went on a city tour with a night watchman re-enactor in Ribe DK this summer)

I had been getting Romeo and Juliet vibes, and now it gets dropped in the chat at 23%. Hopefully not the same ending though 🤪

An automated carillon? In 1893?? Sounds anachronistic to me.

The shop keeper's wife (Mrs Leighton?) has had three different regional accents in 5 sentences. 🤦‍♀️

I'd originally requested this as audiobook via Libby. Recently noticed it wasn't in my holds and was no longer available as an audiobook - probably due to those onerous restrictions the publishers put on library digital audiobooks. ☹️ I know it would've been better read by author but the content is interesting anyway.

(Started with the print edition but switched to audio when I had to return the library book. Initially dissatisfied with the reader but he's growing on me.)

This is clearly going to be a story where the characters are on a collision course. With a redemption arc as well.

The Clergyman's Daughter / The Red House was a good one. The Unbreakable Alibi was super obvious (and why didn't they pick up on tea / coffee mismatch?)

These are short stories (after all, they promise 1 day detecting service!). And I suspect they would be more amusing if I knew all the other detectives that are referenced

The writing style is very different - is that because of when it was written (1927) or is this style common in some mystery sub-genre that I don't often read??

The best part so far is all the funny names appearing in the society pages - would benefit from lingering over a print version just for those details!

Come on people, now is not the time to go off half-cocked! Jordan I can see, but the rest of you?

Just had a surreal experience. This sweeping, epic, multi-generational novel set in India name-drops medical missionary Ida Scudder who founded the medical school where current MC will be doing neurosurgery residency. I know one of Ida Scudder's descendants. Actually, I know 4 to 6 of them (do wives count? not in bloodline so...), but only 1 (or 2?) really well. Small world!!

The description of that dish is making my mouth water...

I didn't realize when I requested this that it was a non-fiction teen book. Also didn't realize I was missing out on photos. Might have to get the print edition to see them.

I had about 45 minutes left in the book when it was automatically returned 😭 - might need to get my hands on a paper copy to finish it bc I think the audiobook wait will be be long...

Glad I held out for the Jim Dale narration version of this.

I'm glad I listened to David Copperfield first, because I definitely see some parallels

Not really what I was expecting, but I'll put in another request and finish it once I pop back to top of the hold list.

"(Captain Hook) He is the worst of them all. He is the only man of whom Barbecue (sp?) was afraid" - wait, is this the inspiration for the name of current major gang leader in Haiti ?? Although I suppose in that situation it would be more fearsome to be Hook. 🤦🏼‍♀️

I listened to the Broadway musical soundtrack album endlessly as a child, so those songs burst into my head as the narration gets to the corresponding point.

The writing style is not great, but it's not bad enough to turn me away

I recently heard a podcast about this woman (one of the spy podcasts iirc), and now I'm thinking I might not need to return to finish the book...