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Fire When Ready Mass Market Paperback – 4 December 2004

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There is no evidence that Sitting Marsh's munitions factory had been bombed by the Luftwaffe, so it is up to Lady Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton to discern who in the sleepy little community sabotaged the plant and killed the owner. Original.

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Publisher : Prime Crime (4 December 2004)
Language : English
Mass Market Paperback : 217 pages
ISBN-10 : 0425199487
ISBN-13 : 978-0425199480
Dimensions : 11.07 x 1.65 x 17.12 cm

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joma

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 March 2016

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really good read

Christine Wilson

Manor House book7

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 May 2015

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I love all this series

Laura E.

Poor Polly

Reviewed in the United States on 30 January 2019

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SPOILER ALERT: This is a consistently good series. The mystery did revert back to being easily solved, however. And I had a hunch Earl would be back, I just didn't know if his return would be in this book or the next. I am disappointed Sam didn't return with him. I feel bad for Polly, especially since I think other characters are making too much of the age difference. My dad was 12 1/2 years older than my mom (she was 19 and he was 32 when they married) and they had a long and happy marriage. So maybe I'm biased, but I just can't see Polly happy with someone other than the man she loves. Come on, it's 1944. Is the age gap really so unusual for the time period?

Back to the mystery. I had the culprit pegged very early on and even guessed the reason and his intended target as soon as Elizabeth spoke with Zora (took her a little longer).

For the second book in a row, Elizabeth seemed a little more self-involved than usual. She was worried about Ray stumbling upon her while she searched his room (with good reason, it turns out), yet she never seemed concerned that Polly was on a date with a probable murderer. After her actions, it's hard to take her thought process seriously regarding her feelings of responsibility toward Polly. Of course, poor Polly might end up traumatized no matter what Elizabeth does. First, Sam dumps her. Then, she hooks up with a murderer. Talk about bad luck!

I also felt a couple of references to the war were inaccurate. References to the troops in the trenches and female ambulance drivers both seem much more in line with WWI than WWII. WWII did not feature trench warfare, yet Elizabeth and others refer to the soldiers in the trenches. Maybe the expression just lingered in Britain after the first world war. Also, there might have been female ambulance drivers in WWII, but its definitely an image more associated with WWI, at least in my mind.

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Drebbles

Good Historical Mystery

Reviewed in the United States on 15 December 2004

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In this mystery, set in the small town of Sitting Marsh in England during World War II, residents are not happy when a munitions factory is built near the town. So unhappy, in fact, that Douglas McNally, manager of the plant, shows Lady Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton some threatening letters he has received. When McNally and a cleaning woman are found dead after a fire at the factory, the Fire Marshall rules the fire an accident, which satisfies the police, but Elizabeth isn't convinced, especially when she hears the victims bodies were found inside a locked office. She decides to investigate the deaths herself, but unless she's careful, things might get too hot for her!

This is another delightful cozy mystery in Kate Kingsbury's Manor House series. The mystery itself is slight, there aren't that many suspects and it's pretty obvious who the murderer is. But I read the mysteries more for the characters and what is going on in their lives. Elizabeth is a good strong heroine, although a little too full of her "position" in the village at times. Fans of the series will be glad to hear that Earl is back, but you'll have to read the book to find out how and why! Violet and Martin, are a bit of a cliché as the faithful household retainers, but Kingsbury writes them in such a way that you care for them and actually hold your breath when Martin walks down the stairs, hoping he'll make it. And Martin is involved in some of the most humorous moments in the book, making a reader wonder if he is as dotty as he sometimes seems to be. Housemaids Sadie and Polly show what life was like for young girls in war torn England.

This is a good book for fans of cozy, humorous mysteries.

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S. Wilson

I really like the characters

Reviewed in the United States on 23 October 2014

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It's very hard to know how to rate this book. As with all the Manor books, there is very little plot or mystery. They definitely are character-driven books. That said, I really like the characters. I like Lady Elizabeth on her motorbike and the aging butler, young Polly, and, of course, Earl, the dashing,handsome American airman. I enjoy following the little feuds and happenings of this small town. The reading goes very quickly, quite frankly because there is little depth, but, at the same time, when I want to curl up and see what some old friends are up to, these are good books to read. And I'd give the same rating to all Kingsbury's Manor books, for the same reasons.

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