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3:00 pm 16 March 2019

The Alington Inheritance (A Miss Silver Mystery) - Patricia Wentworth

The Alington Inheritance - Patricia Wentworth, Diana Bishop

... don't go anywhere near this one.

Whiny, immature, TSTL special snowflake heroine. Insta-love. Completely implausible, "fortuitous" (*major headdesk moment*) first encounter between hero and heroine. Weak plotline that is further weakened by an "inverse mystery" structure -- it certainly does NOT help that we know whodunnit from the get-go.

One star for Maudie being Maudie. Half a star for de-facto street urchin Dicke's occasional comic relief.

So much for the much-needed comfort reading I was hoping for ...

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