Ashley’s Reviews > A Very British Murder: The Story of a National Obsession > Status Update

I didn't know Ngaio Marsh was queer! She had a lifelong female partner, and they were buried side by side.

Okay, now she's spoiled Lady Audley's Secret, but that's fine as I'm not sure I'll ever read it, and if I do, I will have forgotten everything I just learned by then.

the author just spoiled The Moonstone. bitch, I’m reading that next month!!!!

she also spoils The Woman in White> and Armordale.

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Interesting theory that the decline and then absence of public executions in Britain is partly responsible for the rise of detective fiction, where solutions not spectacle are the main event.

This always happens to me. I *just* read a book where the Radcliffe Highway murders and the Luddite uprising were big plot points.