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Originally from Warrington, the capital is the inspiration for much of her work, including This Lovely City, which began life after a trip into the deep level shelter below Clapham Common. He lit his own cigarette and leaned next to me on the railing, still slightly too close for comfort.
If you want a good mystery set on a ship, do yourself a favour and read Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie. Her debut novel, This Lovely City, was published in the UK to wide acclaim, and was a Between the Covers Book Club Pick on BBC Two. Lena takes a first class ticket ride on the Queen Mary that might open many doors of opportunity for her. I tried to remember why I'd decided to trust Charlie in the first place, then realized that I'd actually had little choice in the matter.She likes Carrie who seems so young and controlled by her family, desperate for some company of her own age. With a style that very much reminded me of Agatha Christie, I had hopes that this 1930s murder mystery would be equally compelling. The story features Lena Aldridge, a mixed-race singer, dancer, and actor whose theatre career hasn’t lived up to her expectations. A glamorous historical fiction consists of class differences, raising of Nazism, hard competition at Broadway world, sex traffic of underaged girls, betrayal, cheating, racism, mansplaining mixed with gripping whodunnit mystery takes place in RMS Queen Mary. Also maybe not that much of a mystery, cause i think alot of people might have guessed who the killer was since the author was trying hard to misdirect but overall engaging and i liked the time spent reading this book.
As Lena navigates the Abernathy’s increasingly bizarre family dynamic, she realizes that her greatest performance won't be for an audience, but for her life. In the case of Miss Aldridge Regrets, sex and violence do take place onstage, so I would change the first item listed above to this: In Cozy Mysteries sex isn't explicit, and violence isn't gory. An odd twist is revealed quite out of the blue making it appear almost ridiculous and I have to say it fell flat for me. We can only imagine the taboo nature of a relationship between a black man and a white woman in the early 20th Century, a time when eugenics was gaining a foothold on both sides of the Atlantic.
While the book did not leave me with a sense of astonishment and wonder, it did provide great insights into many factors of the times such as racism, drug addiction, drinking alcohol to excess, family dynamics, friendship, glamor, class dynamics, music, smoking, politics, attitudes about women, and much more.
Eliza is Frank’s daughter, rather aloof at first and seemingly unaware that her husband is seducing Frank’s assistant Daisy when no one is looking.While most of the story is from Lena’s viewpoint, there are interspersed thoughts recorded in a diary by another person. Her new theatre boss wants her to make herself known on the crossing and to get to know the wealthy passengers, but Lena feels out of her depth. One is fairly easy to guess, and dropped without much fanfare after you find out what happened, but the others seemed more farfetched and needed more groundwork established. The two timelines are easy to follow, even on audio, though I'm not sure the unknown second POV added much to the story.
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