{"id":13810,"date":"2021-01-03T10:34:47","date_gmt":"2021-01-03T15:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=13810"},"modified":"2026-09-13T10:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T14:09:29","slug":"the-unfinished-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13810","title":{"rendered":"The Unfinished Clue"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Unfinished Clue<\/a><\/em> (1934) Georgette Heyer<\/a><\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>Sir Arthur Billingham-Smith and his wife Fay are throwing a house party. Except that the general didn’t want to have the party, doesn’t want to see his son and the woman he wants to marry, and is pretty much a complete bastard.<\/p>\n

He dislikes his son almost as much as he dislike’s Fay’s sister.<\/p>\n

\u2018H\u2019m! I suppose this is a specimen of the modern frankness we hear so much about!\u2019 remarked Sir Arthur belligerently. \u2018Personally, I should have thought that common politeness \u2013\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018You wouldn\u2019t,\u2019 interrupted Dinah, quite unperturbed. \u2018You told me last time I came that you\u2019d ceased to expect ordinary courtesy from me.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dinah is probably the best character in the book.<\/p>\n

\u2018Would you like me to make love to you, darling?\u2019 inquired Francis. <\/p>\n

\u2018Do just as you like; I needn\u2019t listen,\u2019 replied Dinah. <\/p>\n

\u2018It seems to be the order of the day,\u2019 he said softly. \u2018You don\u2019t like me a bit, do you, my sweet?\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018No, not much.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, to summarize: Arthur is awful, Fay is weak, the son–Geoffrey–is unable to stand up for himself, and the rest of the members of the house party are pretty much contemptible.<\/p>\n

The mystery is ok. Although the murder doesn’t happen until chapter five, you know precisely who is going to die, and of course everyone has good reason to kill him. I also guess pretty quickly who had killed him, although I wasn’t positive which of two characters was that person.<\/p>\n

However, I did enjoy the historical aspects of the story–in that is a contemporary that is now 80-some years old and an historical, which I always find fascinating. The rest of it? Meh.<\/p>\n

Publisher : Poisoned Pen Press
\nRating: 6\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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