{"id":13855,"date":"2021-01-20T16:20:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T21:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=13855"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:07:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:07:51","slug":"why-shoot-a-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/13855","title":{"rendered":"Why Shoot a Butler?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Shoot a Butler?<\/a><\/em> (1933) Georgette Heyer<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Why<\/a>This story was all over the place.<\/p>\n

Barrister Frank Amberley gets lost taking a shortcut to visit his aunt and uncle, and comes upon a car alongside the road, and a young woman beside it. A closer look find a man dead in the drivers seat, and the woman claiming she found him shot.<\/p>\n

Frank reports the murder–but not the presence of the young woman, and then ends up getting involved.<\/p>\n

I stopped to ask the way to Greythorne and found the fellow was dead. Probably murdered. I\u2019d come with you, but I\u2019m an hour late for dinner already.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think my favorite part of this story was the language. Written in 1933 it was then a contemporary and now so much of the language is strange and unusual to the modern American reader.<\/p>\n

(A) closed Austin Seven. It was drawn up to the side of the road, its engine switched off, and only its side and tail-lights burning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Burning car lights.<\/p>\n

Felicity became aware of an indignant motorist who was violently sounding his hooter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You tell that to the marines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2018Nothing would induce me to mount the velocipede again, I can tell you.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2018Fountain rang up the police station at three in the morning?\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u2018That\u2019s right, sir. Some people seem to think the police like being rung up at all hours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…supposed that the man had taken French leave..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Frank jerked his thumb downwards in a certain Roman gesture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That last bit I REALLY want to know what it means.<\/p>\n

So, although the story was a disappointment, I was fascinated by the way the words were placed together.<\/p>\n

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

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