I have always been a sincere Christian myself, but I cannot feel that our religion demands that we should make ourselves conspicuous – er – in such very painful circumstances.’ ~page 43
Ughh. How cowardly and unmanly. This wasn’t Lord Peter Wimsey who said this, but someone else. Good thing this guy wasn’t a First Century Christian. He’d have denied Christ to avoid the arena in a heartbeat.
I think my mother’s talents deserve a little acknowledgment. I said so to her, as a matter of fact, and she replied in these memorable words: “My dear child, you can give it a long name if you like, but I’m an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it’s so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.” ~page 139
Oh, this made me laugh my head off. Good stuff!
‘Damn it all, we want to get at the truth!’
‘Do you?’ said Sir Impey drily. ‘I don’t. I don’t care twopence about the truth. I want a case. It doesn’t matter to me who killed Cathcart, provided I can prove it wasn’t Denver. It’s really enough if I can throw reasonable doubt on its being Denver. Here’s a client comes to me with a story of a quarrel, a suspicious revolver, a refusal to produce evidence of his statements, and a totally inadequate and idiotic alibi. I arrange to obfuscate the jury with mysterious footprints, a discrepancy as to time, a young woman with a secret, and a general vague suggestion of something between a burglary and a crime passionel. And here you come explaining the footprints, exculpating the unknown man, abolishing the discrepancies, clearing up the motives of the young woman, and most carefully throwing back suspicion to where it rested in the first place. What do you expect?’
‘I’ve always said,’ growled Peter, ‘that the professional advocate was the most immoral fellow on the face of the earth, and now I know for certain.’ ~Page 202
Lawyers have always been slimey and they always will be.
So 3 quotes from the first 200 pages. That has got to be some kind of record for me. The cover though rather confuses me. While this takes place in the Flapper era, flapper’s aren’t involved and the only young women involved are blondes. I’m guessing it’s some sort of royalty free cover to go with a royalty free edition? Not really important, just one of those things I wonder quickly about and then forget. Hence it’s inclusion here and not being saved for a review 😀
I am loving this though. Looks like a High Rating Ahead!
Yikes, while I love to judge a book by it’s cover, I’ll make an exception here; this looks more like Cabaret than Peter Whimsey.
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Yeah, it’s not a good cover at all. I actually like the staid and boring modern cover. It is just so odd…
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This is why someone invented the ‘you can’t judge a book by it’s cover’ phrase, they must have read this one.
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too true! So far, I am having a fantastic time reading this. This is the kind of cozy mystery I can get behind.
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Excellent! I am currently enthralled by The Magicians by Lev Grossman, which is probably not your cuppa tea, but isn’t it lovely to escape into other worlds/lives?
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Yeah, Grossman got on my “authors to avoid” list with that book.
But I am glad you are enjoying it 😉
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I got hooked on the TV series of it (which I class as ‘trash TV’ ) doing the ironing so got the book when it finished to see if it’s better.
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Ahh, led astray by Ironing. Hmmm, that might have potential for a post.
The Dark Side of ….. Ironing
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Indeed, I’ve been there. It’s not pretty.
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Three quotes=3 stars you think? 🙂
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Actually, I am seriously considering giving this 4.5stars. It is really good.
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What a great way to end the year with a good book
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Hah! I’m glad you are enjoying it. I love this book (and series!). The “mother wit” quote made me laugh hard, too.
And, yeah, the cover is not representative of the book…
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This book has greatly impressed me, much more than the first. It’s looking like it could be a good series now 😀
I just wish I knew where that cover came from…
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It’s great, how the bottom image zooms in more than the top! Maybe on the back cover we can get a good look at that man photo bombing and playing the cello / bass in the back! 🤠
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If I had to pick a “bad” cover, this would cover it, in so many ways 🙂
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Geez, I’m seeing about 54 covers for this book . . .
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I’d have to go look but if the book is in public domain, that would explain it.
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As a lawyer, I…well, don’t argue too much with your statement. Even the president of our firm says that 99% of lawyers give the rest of us a bad name 🙂
I need to go back and re-read some Sayers. I got a book for Christmas about her and C.S. Lewis’ friendship, and I’m looking forward to reading that!
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Based on the 2 Wimsey books so far, Sayers is beating Christie by a country mile.
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I love Sayers. I haven’t read her Wimsey mysteries yet but her theology books are fabulous! Happy reading!
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Good to know. If I need more non-fiction I’ll be sure to check her out. Always interesting to see those 2 sides from one author 🙂
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I think you’d like her “Letters to a Diminished Church”. “Are Women Human” is interesting too.
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Thanks for the titles.
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If you‘re loving this, you have a lot of good things as yet waiting for you in the rest of the series.
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Excellent! 🙂
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Maybe when you qualify as a lawyer, you get a gift of a layer of inner slime…!
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Yeah, it seems like there must be a secret ceremony for EVERY lawyer where they take an oath to be as miserable a person as they possibly can be…
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It’s so sad that a book that has this much potential only ends up having such an off-putting cover! This should be a crime…
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Indeed, it should be a crime. And bounties should be placed on those who put these up. I’d become a Book Cover Bounty Hunter in a heart beat! (give me an excuse to buy that ruger carbine I’ve been looking at anyway 😉 )
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