Friday, February 12, 2010

Discovering Amelia Peabody

I read the first Amelia Peabody mystery last night, Crocodile on the Sandbank.
Simply delightful. I think when I came to this part, on page 7 ...


    After an interval he came bounding back with his eyes gleaming. Nothing delights these gentry so much as misfortune; I was therefore not surprised when he reported that the "turisti" were gathered around a young English lady who had fallen down dead upon the ground.
    "How do you know that she is English?" I inquired.


... I realized that I had fallen in love with Ms. Peabody.

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