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Fascinating.

Ellis Peters does P.D. James was my first thought…but surely it can’t be Ellis Peters doing Le Carré? 😮😍

My boy, I know you don’t have a lot of free time, but that palace has to have a library, and hopefully a card catalog. USE IT

This book is far more full of exciting incident than the subtitle would have you believe!

I really like the important bit unemphasized fact that it’s hard to judge how smart someone/something is when you have little language in common. It’s interesting in the plot here, but it’s just such an overlooked fact in the world that I love to see it used.

No shade to this book, but I saw what was about to happen; paused the book; and had to take two P.G. Wodehouse novels before I could finish the scene. 🤷🏻‍♀️

“Advanced peoples” Dear god, man, you wrote this in 2003. Really not on.

Forgot to say at 23% when I meant to that Carmilla is a clever creature.

Aha! At the opening of “The Musgrave Ritual,” Holmes has just become untidy and prone to setting off guns indoors, after existing for ~7 years with unmentioned un/tidiness status (but a tendency to cross-index as a quiet evening amusement which had bent the original depiction toward organization).