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A Man of Some Repute

di Elizabeth Edmondson

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Serie: A Very English Mystery (1)

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Truth is rarely pure and never simple...Selchester Castle in 1953 sits quiet and near-empty, its corridors echoing with glories of the past.Or so it seems to intelligence officer Hugo Hawksworth, wounded on a secret mission and now reluctantly assuming an altogether less perilous role at Selchester.The Castle's faded grandeur hides a web of secrets and scandals--the Earl has been missing for seven years, lost without a trace since the night he left his guests and walked out into a blizzard.When a skeleton is uncovered beneath the flagstones of the Old Chapel, the police produce a suspect and declare the case closed.Hugo is not convinced. With the help of the spirited Freya Wryton, the Earl's niece, he is drawn back into active service, and the ancient town of Selchester is dragged into the intrigues and conspiracies of the Cold War era.With a touch of Downton Abbey, a whisper of Agatha Christie and a nod to Le Carre, A Man of Some Repute is the first book in this delightfully classic and witty murder mystery series.… (altro)
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The wounded Hugo Hawksworth seems destined to spend his time pushing papers behind a desk, but an opportunity comes for him to work from Selchester Castle. His younger sister Georgia accompanies him. Shortly after his arrival, the missing earl's body turns up in the chapel buried under flagstones. The local investigators, wanting a quick resolution, seem happy to pin it on the man's deceased son with the man's niece Freya as an accessory. Hugo, convinced of their innocence, investigates on the side. The premise ended up being stronger than the writing and plotting. The earl was a man few admired. The weak ending did not help endear me to the series which was published through Amazon's Thomas & Mercer imprint. ( )
  thornton37814 | Jul 14, 2022 |
I was lured in by the title -- I just love English mysteries (OK, I love mysteries in general).

This one is set shortly after the end of the second World War (1953), in a small town/village where there's no privacy -- especially not if you have to call somebody by telephone. The village operator frequently listens in...

There's a castle, and nobility, and a murder, of course, and the police are incapable, and in the places higher up they want to hush it all up.

I wasn't too sure that Georgia behaved according to her age, but then after what she's been through, maybe it's not too strange after all.

It's a nice enough story, and I can imagine to listen to more in this series. The narrator did overall a good job, although at times it was difficult to tell who said what in male/male dialogues. ( )
  Belana | Dec 15, 2021 |
I made it 60% of the way through this one and it wasn't bad, but I had no attachments to anyone or anything. I switched to another book and didn't care enough to go back. ( )
  jamestomasino | Sep 11, 2021 |
At first I started only sort of liking this book, but it grew on me, through this volume and the next two (hence my 4 star rating for this and the next two, which is "really liked it"). This was mostly because of the characters. Sometimes you almost make friends with them, and you want to be around them; that was the way I felt about these.

As it starts, I found it hard to care; the viewpoint flips between too many characters, and for some of them, you're left wondering: why do I care? In the end, actually, I didn't care; I don't know why she decided to make so many minor characters be viewpoint characters early on, before we know anybody. The later volumes of this series I thought didn't have this problem; but I had to push my way through the first part of this book until things became clearer.

As mysteries go, I would say these are fine, nothing extraordinary. But I found the setting interesting (as an American, I found learning more about post-WWII Britain interesting). ( )
  garyrholt | Nov 5, 2020 |
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Police are trying to trace the whereabouts of Lord Selchester, who walked out into a blizzard from his home, Selchester Castle, on Saturday and has not been seen since.
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Truth is rarely pure and never simple...Selchester Castle in 1953 sits quiet and near-empty, its corridors echoing with glories of the past.Or so it seems to intelligence officer Hugo Hawksworth, wounded on a secret mission and now reluctantly assuming an altogether less perilous role at Selchester.The Castle's faded grandeur hides a web of secrets and scandals--the Earl has been missing for seven years, lost without a trace since the night he left his guests and walked out into a blizzard.When a skeleton is uncovered beneath the flagstones of the Old Chapel, the police produce a suspect and declare the case closed.Hugo is not convinced. With the help of the spirited Freya Wryton, the Earl's niece, he is drawn back into active service, and the ancient town of Selchester is dragged into the intrigues and conspiracies of the Cold War era.With a touch of Downton Abbey, a whisper of Agatha Christie and a nod to Le Carre, A Man of Some Repute is the first book in this delightfully classic and witty murder mystery series.

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