No Lady in the House The irascible and incorruptible editor and his questioning colleague Maggie Rome set out to determine whether there is a link between a dead domestic a rash of burglaries a vacant school building
The irascible and incorruptible editor and his questioning colleague, Maggie Rome, set out to determine whether there is a link between a dead domestic, a rash of burglaries, a vacant school building, and the women s movement
It can't be said that this book is intensely irritating, but it comes close. Firstly, the writer is an inveterate name dropper. I think one is expected to be impressed by the cultural erudition of the author dripping references on every page. Secondly, the atmospherics of the book are that of a derivative, very derivative Rex Stout, with G.B.Greenfield playing Nero Wolfe and Maggie Rome, his trusty reporter, faking Archie. All in all, a disappointing read, the more since Kallen certainly can wri [...]
Another in the set of "books that fit in my jacket pocket." I read it all but won't read the others in the series.
Not quite as good as the first book by Kallen I read.