Smashbomb

Search

Search results

All (56)

Content

Uninhabited (2010)

6.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

Movie

When a young couple go on a camping holiday to an uninhabited island, strange occurrences happen as...

Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)

5.4 (14 Ratings) Rate It

Movie

It has been five years since the disappearance of Katie and Hunter, and a suburban family witness...

The Haunting of Henry Twist

Rebecca F John

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

London, 1926: Henry Twist's heavily pregnant wife leaves home to meet a friend. On the way, she is...

fiction gender studies LGBTQ+ Historical Fiction

John Henry Newman: A Portrait in Letters

Roderick Strange

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

John Henry Newman was one of the most eminent of Victorians and an intellectual pioneer for an age...

The Birthday of Eternity (Comfort & Company, #2)

A. D. Price

(0 Ratings) Rate It

Book

L.A. private investigators Kit and Henry become entangled in the city's robust post-WWII occult...

Historical Mystery Private Dectectve Series

Cage of Light

Donnally Miller

10.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

Book

Surreal dreams of love and death Henry Dark has long believed that the world around him is a thin...

Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2080 KP) rated With a Little Bit of Blood in Books

Jun 20, 2018

Henry and Eliza Must Solve a House Party Murder

Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins have been invited to the first house party thrown by the new Lord and Lady Ashford (she the former Clara Eynsford-Hill). The timing is perfect since a couple of strange things have forced the duo to look for a place to stay. However, the first morning a fellow guest is killed during the rabbit hunt. Henry is sure it was a hunting accident, but Eliza isn’t so sure. Who is right?

This is another fun mystery with the characters made famous by Pygmalion and My Fair Lady. The plot did seem to start slowly, however by the end I realized how things played into the overall story. A few of the regulars are reduced to cameos, but it was still nice to catch up with them. We have a rather large cast of characters, but it was always easy to keep them straight as the story unfolded. We get some fun with new (for 1913) things like airplanes and cars as well as mentions of the more serious things unfolding in the world at the time.