mbondlamberty's review against another edition
3.0
This didn't take me that long to read, but rather the beginning took me that long to get into so I put it at the bottom of my currently reading stack.
This is a product of its time (1941) with some things from the past (memorized poetry) aging okay but others not as well.
Still it was an entertaining romp that moved quite faster than it had started.
This is a product of its time (1941) with some things from the past (memorized poetry) aging okay but others not as well.
Still it was an entertaining romp that moved quite faster than it had started.
b00knerd's review against another edition
3.0
This was a good mystery novel but definitely not for everyone. I would say that it gives you a complex feel for the story and makes you feel like your actually in the book but some might find all that confusing. I did enjoy this one even though i had to stop a few times and re-read parts to actually get what was going on.
AGAIN NOT FOR EVERYONE. Thanks NetGalley and everyone involved!!
AGAIN NOT FOR EVERYONE. Thanks NetGalley and everyone involved!!
majkia's review against another edition
3.0
Not the best of the series. Here Appleby is in search of a girl who's gone missing. And discovers a nest of spies.
vsbedford's review against another edition
2.0
An Appleby mystery that contains but a wisp of Appleby and focuses, instead, on a 39 Steps/Rogue Male redux with a heartily annoying young woman whose knowledge of poetry and general toffee-nosed-ness gets her involved with some genuine nonsense in Scotland. Look, one of the positives of a Michael Innes novel is that it eschews that formulaic but here he rather over steers into the skid. As such, we end up on on the other side with almost a parody of this type of novel rather than a work itself. I recommend approaching this one as source material for an early Hitchcock and it gets better, if not by much.
I recevied an ecopy from the publishers and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
I recevied an ecopy from the publishers and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
annarella's review against another edition
3.0
This is not a bad mystery but unfortunately it didn't age well and it shows the influx of the time when it was written.
It is more interesting as a documentation of a specific historical time than as a mystery.
Many thanks to Netgalley and Ipso Books
It is more interesting as a documentation of a specific historical time than as a mystery.
Many thanks to Netgalley and Ipso Books
annarella's review
3.0
This is not a bad mystery but unfortunately it didn't age well and it shows the influx of the time when it was written.
It is more interesting as a documentation of a specific historical time than as a mystery.
Many thanks to Netgalley and Ipso Books
It is more interesting as a documentation of a specific historical time than as a mystery.
Many thanks to Netgalley and Ipso Books
melissadeemcdaniel's review
4.0
I had forgotten what rousingly good mysteries the “Appleby” books are! Appleby himself takes second stage to the main characters, amateurs Stella Grant and Dick Evans, who get caught up in a nest of spies and with relatively minor help from the authorities (including Appleby himself), manage to bring down the baddies and rescue the valuable boffin.
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