Though my singular frustration with detective fiction is that it always involves the cops (ACAB), I find it hard not to be charmed by detectives both because they are often quite fun characters and also they highlight the pointlessness of the very institution the genre often supports.
Charming Detectives Public
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The Tumbling Girl by Bridget Walsh (Variety Palace Mysteries)
5 stars
1876, Victorian London.
The feisty Minnie Ward is scraping a living as a scriptwriter for the Variety Palace Music Hall …
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Flying Too High by Kerry Greenwood (Phryne Fisher, #2)
3 stars
Walking the wings of a Tiger Moth plane in full flight would be more than enough excitement for most people, …
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Murder on the Ballarat Train by Kerry Greenwood (Phryne Fisher, #3)
3 stars
When the roaring 1920s' most glamorous lady detective, the Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher, arranges to go to Ballarat for the …
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The Decagon House Murders by Yukito Ayatsuji (The House Murders, #1)
2 stars
The lonely, rockbound island of Tsunojima is notorious as the site of a series of bloody unsolved murders. Some even …
