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==Crime (historical)==
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|author=Simon Brett
|title=Blotto, Twinks and the Dead Dowager Duchess
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=There is a long tradition of country house murder novels, and Simon Brett has a glorious time parodying them in the Blotto and Twinks series. All the stock characters are there: the dim but honourable young man, the clever and emancipated young woman, the loyal lower orders and the dastardly (and preferably foreign) villains. Death is treated in the most light-hearted, almost off-hand manner, and danger is as regular an occurrence as kippers for breakfast. In hands as experienced as Simon Brett's this should be a rich mine for comedy, and to some extent it is, but still, it has to be said, something is lacking.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013179</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Alan Wright
