Ashley’s Reviews > A Very British Murder: The Story of a National Obsession > Status Update
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I didn't know Ngaio Marsh was queer! She had a lifelong female partner, and they were buried side by side.
— Oct 08, 2025 10:47AM
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Ashley
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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.
— Oct 08, 2025 06:52AM
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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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— Oct 07, 2025 08:19PM
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.
— Oct 07, 2025 04:13PM
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This always happens to me. I *just* read a book where the Radcliffe Highway murders and the Luddite uprising were big plot points.
— Oct 07, 2025 11:27AM
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Oct 08, 2025 10:48AM
Well! That just makes me admire her more. I’ve read all the Allyn books and loved the series. Is this about her?
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No, it's about the British people's cultural obsession with murder, real and fictional. She talks about the history of detective fiction, and hits all the highs and lows, including all the female Golden Age crime writers.
