Karen’s Reviews > Run! > Status Update

Okay, this is a compliment to Patricia Wentworth: this book now reminds me of those mystery-like episodes of Downton Abbey. Or perhaps the Miss Fisher mysteries? (Although the heroine/live interest is a bit too flighty in my view.) You know the shows I’m referencing! I know you do.

Yes, our hero is quite the all-gentlemen car-lover, and now we have the full frame of the mystery puzzle. I think I know that going on and who is behind it. Did Patricia Wentworth give away too much too early?

Interesting! A reference to the great detective from Belgium and not toward our hero. Well done!

James quite reminds me of Agatha Christie’s Tommy.

Only in books like this do you get “the supercilious footman” at the end of the chapter!

Her guardian! How utterly delicious! That was a scene that even Agatha Christie would have adored!

I love the little A-B-C/1-2-3 encouragements James gives himself. It’s very realistic for his personality.

The car room’s receptionist has to called Daisy, and such a perfectly constructed relationship with James.