{"id":2074,"date":"2015-12-31T17:48:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T17:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2015-12-31T17:48:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T17:48:25","slug":"mystery-review-the-trouble-at-wakeley-court-by-clara-benson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/2015\/12\/mystery-review-the-trouble-at-wakeley-court-by-clara-benson\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery review: The Trouble at Wakeley Court by Clara Benson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1431799138l\/25267507.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"361\" \/>The eighth outing in the <em>Angela Marchmont<\/em> series of murder mysteries set in the twenties sees our heroine drawn into her most preposterous case yet, as a foreign princess is threatened with assassination at the private girls\u2019 school attended by Angela\u2019s god-daughter, Barbara. I won\u2019t attempt to describe the plot &#8211; let\u2019s just say it\u2019s convoluted, and leave it at that.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pleased to report that I guessed the identity of the villain right from the start here, but it didn\u2019t hamper my enjoyment in the slightest. For those who enjoy boarding school stories, complete with middle-of-the-night chases across the lawn, creeping about with torches in the attic and teachers who are not all they seem, this will be right up your alley. I particularly enjoyed the games mistress\u2019 robust attitude towards dealing with intruders.<\/p>\n<p>Angela solves the case, as usual, and all the loose ends are neatly resolved. This one wasn\u2019t quite as laugh-out-loud funny as the previous outing, but still very enjoyable. Five stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eighth outing in the Angela Marchmont series of murder mysteries set in the twenties sees our heroine drawn into her most preposterous case yet, as a foreign princess is threatened with assassination at the private girls\u2019 school attended by Angela\u2019s god-daughter, Barbara. I won\u2019t attempt to describe the plot &#8211; let\u2019s just say it\u2019s convoluted, and leave it at that. I\u2019m pleased to report that I guessed the identity of the villain right from the start here, but it didn\u2019t hamper my enjoyment in the slightest. For those who enjoy boarding school stories, complete with middle-of-the-night chases across the lawn, creeping about with torches in the attic and teachers who are not all they seem, this will be right up your alley. I particularly enjoyed the games mistress\u2019 robust attitude towards dealing with intruders. Angela solves the case, as usual, and all the loose ends are neatly resolved. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[63],"tags":[150],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2076,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions\/2076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulinemross.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}