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An Unmentionable Murder Mass Market Paperback – 1 August 2006

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As Major Earl Monroe flies over Germany and occupied France, Elizabeth Hartleigh Compton, working to track down Martin, the elderly butler, and several pairs of ladies' undergarments, must convince the police that foul-tempered Clyde Morgan's death was not suicide, but murder. Original.

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Publisher : Berkley Pub Group (1 August 2006)
Language : English
Mass Market Paperback : 216 pages
ISBN-10 : 0425211142
ISBN-13 : 978-0425211144
Dimensions : 10.57 x 1.63 x 17.22 cm

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A bit too American for an English country house mystery series

Reviewed in Australia on 31 August 2015

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All nine of the Manor House mysteries are very readable with engaging plots and interesting main characters. The stories follow on one after the other, so are best read in the correct order. Some loose ends are overlooked, some of the characters lack complexity, and the historical setting is rather simplistic and probably not entirely realistic. The American spelling and anachronistic American slang don't fit with the English setting, and the number of grammatical solecisms increases with every book. However, if you're looking for an enjoyable, non-challenging English-country-house mystery, and can overlook the mistakes in English expression, this series is for you.

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pauline

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 May 2019

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Good story

joma

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 March 2016

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sorry there aren't more of this series

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great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 April 2015

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great read, everyone should read it.

Laura E.

I'll miss this series

Reviewed in the United States on 17 February 2019

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Not nearly enough of Elizabeth and the major together in this one, but at least there is closure. And this final mystery in the series was depressing with no good ending for anyone involved. Also, no real closure for any of the secondary characters. What happens to Sadie and Polly? Does Joe survive the war? And I can't imagine Martin moving willingly to Wyoming. I really wish Kate Kingsbury had continued on with this series. Or started a new series with Sadie and Polly as the main characters. Now that would be fun. But at least Lady Elizabeth got her happy ending. :)

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Atta Girl!

Reviewed in the United States on 4 January 2014

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This is the final book in the Manor House series, following “Wedding Rows.” The action begins about 3 weeks after the conclusion of the previous novel and about 3 days into the Allied Invasion at Normandy in 1944.

Earl Monroe is gone – flying bomber runs in the Allied Invasion. The knickers are gone – stolen from the clothesline. And Martin is just plain gone – disappeared, gone. Then there’s the life that has gone out of the body of Clyde Morgan, who has just been found in the rubble of the burned out munitions factory.

As far as the murder plotline goes, it is actually quite sophisticated for a cozy genre mystery. Clyde Morgan, the local used goods seller, has apparently committed suicide – the gun is in his own hand. But it is in his right hand, and the man is left-handed. Not to mention, the man lost his right eye earlier in the war and wears a patch. So a shot to the right temple by the right hand of a right-eye blinded man is not exactly the best evidence of suicide, no matter what PC Dalrymple says.

So, as in each of the prior books, Lady Elizabeth takes it upon herself to investigate and expose a murderer. And, as in each of the prior books, she fails to tell anyone in her household where she is specifically headed, even though she is forever angry at Violet and Martin for doing the same. And, as in each of the prior books, she gets violently surprised by the murderer and is inches from death when the rescue comes.

In many respects, it is good that this is the last volume in the series. While the author has progressed Lady Elizabeth’s character emotionally, she has not progressed her character intellectually. Kingsbury has not allowed Lady Elizabeth to learn from her mistakes and that can be the death of a reader’s sympathy for a protagonist.

However, Kingsbury’s ability to write emotional scenes, via dialogue and internal monologue, is one of the best I have encountered in my many years of reading fiction. She expresses confusion, enlightenment, elation and sorrow in a manner that touches the soul and elicits those same reactions in the reader.

And, it is with this skill in writing emotional context, that Kingsbury brings us to the point that we have expected for the last eight novels. Major Earl Monroe does not return from a bombing run unscathed. This situation, in turn, drives the novel to its conclusion. And the ending that we get is one that is well earned and well delivered.

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