★★½
GENRE: Cozy Mystery
SUBJECT: Charity pensioners,
Setting: Hampton Court, England
CHARACTERS: Princess Alexandrina, Pooki, Dr Henderson, Mjr. Gen Bagshot, Mrs. Bagshot,
DATE READ: June 16 - June 25
NO. OF PAGES: 313
Off the Shelf (pre-2013)? Source?: Yes, Giveaway prize
PLOT:...........................................2.50
CHARACTERIZATION:..............2.50
TOPICS:.......................................3.00
STYLE:.........................................3.00
ORIGINALITY:..............................3.00
ADDICTIVENESS:......................2.50
OWNERSHIP:..............................2.50
Threshold Quality.........................3.00
Average................................................................2.75
Princess Alexandrina (Mink) finds herself destitute when her father the Maharajah dies suddenly. Before she can be evicted from her home, she is granted a "grace and favor" apartment at Hampton Court Palace.
Barely before you gets settled in her new "home" one of the other residents dies of arsenic poisoning at a picnic casting suspicion on Mink's faithful servant Pooki. She is determined t o find the true cause and sets out interviewing the other residents.
I didn't really care for the characters in this book (Mink was too flighty and snobby, others too 1 dimensional) and the writing seem to lack a steady flow.
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