{"id":46,"date":"2008-02-18T21:53:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookblog.salticid.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-02-18T21:53:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T21:53:00","slug":"envious-casca-georgette-heyer-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/2008\/02\/envious-casca-georgette-heyer-1941\/","title":{"rendered":"Envious Casca &#8211; Georgette Heyer, 1941"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago I would have called this one of my favorite mysteries of all time, but on re-reading it&#8217;s not as compelling as it used to be. It may be the falling tide of my interest in mysteries lowering all boats (as I get pickier with age) because all the ingredients still seem to be present: good British cozy setting, entertaining characters (well-meaning Uncle Joe, who manages to drive everyone straight up a wall while trying to be nice, is particularly memorable), the always-enjoyable locked room setup, funny dialogue and situations, and a heart-warming romance. But there&#8217;s a little too much telling instead of showing, and the solution is not as believable as one might wish. Maybe I&#8217;ve just read it too many times. I got out all the Heyers I kept (purged most of them years ago) because of recommending them to a library patron who loves Agatha Christie best of all and doesn&#8217;t find anyone to compare to her. She enjoyed the one (IMO inferior) Heyer mystery we had at the library (<em>A Blunt Instrument<\/em>, I think) and I&#8217;m going to lend her mine. Where&#8217;s <em>Behold, Here&#8217;s Murder<\/em>, though? I must have misplaced it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week ago I would have called this one of my favorite mysteries of all time, but on re-reading it&#8217;s not as compelling as it used to be. It may be the falling tide of my interest in mysteries lowering all boats (as I get pickier with age) because all the ingredients still seem to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/bookblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}