A review by tombomp
Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham

3.0

a certain particularly horrible racial slur is used like 30% of the way through as part of describing a magic trick. was kind of shocked to see it, although i guess a certain agatha christie novel was published with it in the title for decades afterwards so i probably shouldn't be as surprised but still. disgusting

ok so after finishing it, very cleverly written, lots of red herrings and an incredibly unlikely but still convincing resolution. dangles something at you near the start which is frustrating but it's ok. but. BUT. in the ending while wrapping up things a solution to one minor thing is HORRIBLY racist. like disgustingly so. my mouth was agape reading it. it's hideous.

Spoiler

a character was blackmailing the matriarch by threatening to reveal he's mixed race - he was the kid of a brother or something and his mother was mixed race (described using innuendo i.e "bad type of person") and they had a first child who had black skin and this was the biggest scandal possible so OBVIOUSLY they got packed off and just ugh it'd disgusting

incredibly disappointing horrible end.