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In the Crypt with a Candlestick

‘An irresistible champagne bubble of pleasure and laughter' Rachel Johnson

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In the Crypt with a Candlestick

De : Daisy Waugh
Lu par : Penelope Rawlins
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'Sharp, funny . . . the best sort of murder mystery' Tatler

'A perfect antidote to all the real-life craziness going on' Daily Mail

Sir Ecgbert Tode of Tode Hall has survived to a grand old age - much to the despair of his younger wife, Emma. But at ninety-three he has, at last, shuffled off the mortal coil.

Emma, Lady Tode, thoroughly fed up with being a dutiful Lady of the Manor, wants to leave the country to spend her remaining years in Capri. Unfortunately her three tiresome children are either unwilling or unable (too mad, too lefty or too happy in Australia) to take on management of their large and important home, so the mantle passes to a distant relative and his glamorous wife.

Not long after the new owners take over, Lady Tode is found dead in the mausoleum. Accident? Or is there more going on behind the scenes of Tode Hall than an outsider would ever guess....?

In the traditions of two great but very different British writers, Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse, Waugh's hilarious and entirely original twist on the country house murder mystery comes complete with stiff upper lips, even stiffer drinks, and any stiffs that might embarrass the family getting smartly brushed under the carpet...

What everyone's saying about In the Crypt with a Candlestick...

'I couldn't put it down' Santa Montefiore

'Deliciously entertaining' Andrew Wilson

'An irresistible champagne bubble of pleasure and laughter' Rachel Johnson

'A perfect antidote to wintry gloom' The Literary Review

'What a triumph!' Antonia Fraser

'A masterclass in how to write a rollicking good read' Sarah Vine

'A jolly farce that never takes itself too seriously' Red Magazine

'Fizzles, crackles and sparkles' Elizabeth Buchan

'A work of sublime silliness' Simon Brett

'An effervescent madcap whodunnit' Metro

'A marvellous rollicking read' Mary Killen

'She's skewered her targets brilliantly' Imogen Edwards-Jones©2020 Daisy Waugh Détectives amateurs Policier Policiers et crimes internationaux
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Fans of PG Wodehouse and Agatha Christie should bag this madcap comedy whodunnit . . . Outrageous and over-the-top, a perfect antidote to all real-life craziness going on
It's sharp, funny and just the right amount of farcical - the best sort of murder mystery
I couldn't put it down (Santa Montefiore)
What a triumph! It gave me enormous pleasure to read, plus of course a few appropriate shudders. [In the Crypt] lightens the darkness in a way that is both dark and light (Antonia Fraser)
An irresistible champagne bubble of pleasure and laughter (Rachel Johnson)
Agatha Christie but with a bit of Julian Fellowes's Snobs and Downtown Abbey thrown in . . . A masterclass in how to write a rollicking good read (Sarah Vine)
A jolly farce that never takes itself too seriously
Fizzles, crackles and sparkles
An irresistible, high-camp crime caper - deliciously entertaining
A perfect antidote to wintry gloom
An effervescent madcap whodunnit
A country-house murder mystery with nods to Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh. From the deceased's name (Sir Ecgbert Tode of Tode Hall) to the art deco cover, it's a delightful treat
A work of sublime silliness. The knife-edge between crime and comedy is a tricky one, but Daisy Waugh negotiates it magnificently. The story is preposterous, as it should be in a book of this kind, and the author is clearly less interested in the finer points of crime plotting than she is in sharp observations and social satire. The result is a delightful book, witty, pacy and beautifully written.
This is a marvellous rollicking read with brilliantly drawn characters. I finished it within 24 hours (Mary Killen)
She's spot on; she's skewered her targets brilliantly (Imogen Edwards-Jones)
One imagines that Waugh had nearly as much fun writing it as we do reading it
This whodunnit, set in a twisted version of PG Wodehouse's terrain, is deeply funny
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This is a fun, lighthearted listen, and I can’t bring myself to hate it, but… boy this book is all over the place. The cover art and blurbs comparing it to Christie are misleading; it decides halfway through to be a murder mystery, but no investigation as such ever takes place, as it spends an awful lot of time on chick lit style antics with pretty two-dimensional, thinly drawn characters. The story keeps promising to set up intrigue (will there be another death? Will there be skullduggery?) but only delivers a few hastily thrown-together extramarital affairs. The author seems to delight in heavy handed literary references, but they detract rather than add to the story (an in-fiction book character is called Tintin, but it is not the actual Tintin, leading to a lot of confusing and pointless references to the Tintin movie and people dressing up as Tintin, but not that Tintin; a member of the administrative staff is straight up named Nurse Rachet, despite not being an actual nurse, because I guess if she was Mrs. Rachet you might not get the hilarious joke…?) A country house dinner party in the final third of the book seems like it is setting up the kind of classic murder mystery fare one expects, but fizzles disappointingly into dialogue that more closely resembles “My Dad Wrote A Porno” than anything else. All of that said, there are moments of comedy, and the author so clearly had fun writing it that it somehow salvages the rest.

All over the place

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