A Case of Blackmail in Belgravia: A Freddy Pilkington-Soames Adventure, Book 1
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (878 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B071CFR6KB |
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| Number of Pages | : | 120 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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JK1Entertaining I'll be honest, this book will not win a Pulitzer, but is is an entertaining read.As a fan of the Angela Marchmont series, I was sad to finish the last book. I was very happy to hear that a new series starring Freddy, one on my favorites from the AM series, was being written. I was not let down.This book ticks the boxes that I enjoyed about the AM series. It is great light reading. If . 0971 said Entertaining. I'll be honest, this book will not win a Pulitzer, but is is an entertaining read.As a fan of the Angela Marchmont series, I was sad to finish the last book. I was very happy to hear that a new series starring Freddy, one on my favorites from the AM series, was being written. I was not let down.This book ticks the boxes that I enjoyed about the AM series. It is great light reading. If . Fun for fans of Angela Marchmont, but could be better standing alone I really enjoyed the Angela Marchmont series, so I was excited to see part of it continue through Freddy. This book was a fun read, but I didn't like it as much as the Angela stories. Freddy and most of his friends and relations are a little silly. That worked well as a foil to Angela, but now that she's not in the picture and there's less to balance them out, it makes for a book that'. Witty and Truly Delightful Hope the Next Is More of a Challenge Ginger This is the first I've read by this author. She has a fun style (that often had me chuckling a bit), and she paints the era and atmosphere very nicely. It feels like a good, old-fashioned mystery with quirky characters, witty dialogue, and a storyline that never drags or is tedious. It's hard to say why without giving it away (and I don't like spoilers), but the culprit was obvious to
But a pretty girl with big blue eyes is demanding his help in solving the mystery, so what can he do but agree? Now all he has to do is hide the wrong clues, find the right ones, and unmask the murderer before the police discover what's really been going on. But which of them murdered him? For Freddy Pilkington-Soames, newspaper reporter and man-about-town, the question hits a little too close to home, thanks to an unfortunate drunken encounter with Ticky's corpse which he'd much rather the police didn't find out about - and thanks also to his exasperating mother Cynthia's seeming determination to get herself arrested by tampering with the evidence. If only people didn't keep getting killed.. Now it turns out that numerous people with