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![]() None No current Talk conversations about this book. This was the first book I ever read by Anne Perry. Eh. Well, it was a lot better written than a lot of mysteries I've read. But it oscillated weirdly between fairly typical murder-mystery with police investigations and clues and all that - and a barely-connected story with lots of musings on the role of women in society, the theatre, and the issues involved in censorship. Then, about halfway through, it basically went off on an extended rant against pornography and how bondage/fetish is sick & woman-hating. Whatever. Tell it to all the women I know in the fetish scene.... So. I was unimpressed. And then while I was reading it (at work) I got informed that the writer is actually one of the girls that movie Heavenly Creatures is about, and when she was a teenager she actually killed someone. It's kinda creepy that now she's a successful murder-mystery writer. no reviews | add a review
Superintendent Thomas Pitt cannot immediately ascertain exactly what segment of society the dead man riding the morning tide of the Thames came from, but the sight of him is unforgettable. Is he, as Pitt fears, a French diplomat who has gone missing? Or merely someone who greatly resembles him? No library descriptions found. |
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![]() GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:![]()
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'Half Moon Street' includes some insightful and involving scenes showing the painful evolution of Victorian attitudes to marriage and divorce, as well as censorship. Perry takes the reader deep into the thoughts of her protagonists and the plot progresses via dialogue rather than action. I enjoyed this rather dilatory approach and several picturesque touches like a brief cameo from Oscar Wilde. I was less keen on the way lower class characters' accents were transcribed, e.g. '"I dunno, sir, 'cept I reckon 'e must be, or 'ow would 'e know 'oo they are?"' That was a bit awkward. I also found the denouement unsatisfactorily melodramatic.