![]() ![]() Most of the characters are presented, or hinted, as intelligent. ![]() James laid emphasis on were smells, and the deduction from people's eyes. It would be, had the mystery lasted 400 pages. The story is padded with a lot of description, but this treatment doesn't feel like butter spread too thinly on bread. The libraries, the churches, one graveyard, the University all of them highly etched prosaically. But the author comes into her own element when describing Cambridge. The heroine lives, during her investigation, in a decrepit so called cottage. James is some writer.This book is one of the least domestic crime books I've ever read. Many of the physical traits of the supporting cast are confidently described. Unlike many cozy, and English mystery books, there are quite some prurient quips lying about. There was one place in the book where I could do with some exactitude, that is the detective in the well part. ![]() However it did expose my lack of acute concentration, if not my imagining. ![]()
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