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A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (Inspector George Felse, Bk 4)
A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs - Inspector George Felse, Bk 4
Author: Ellis Peters
“Shed here no tears. No Saint could die More Blessed and Comforted than I” — read the epitaph composed by Jan and Morwenna Treverra before their quiet deaths centuries ago. But the pious portrait of content they conjured fragments when permission is granted for their tombs to be opened -- and an all too twentieth century corpse is fou...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780708837511
ISBN-10: 0708837514
Publication Date: 1988
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
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trekie70 avatar reviewed A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (Inspector George Felse, Bk 4) on + 291 more book reviews
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A very light mystery. Seems to wander off course a bit at times but an enjoyable read in any case.
reviewed A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (Inspector George Felse, Bk 4) on + 29 more book reviews
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english mystery w inspector felse-good story-interesting characters
hardtack avatar reviewed A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (Inspector George Felse, Bk 4) on + 2719 more book reviews
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How many bodies can you fit into a coffin? Who are they? Why was one buried alive? Then there is the mystery of the two epitaphs. All form part of the plot in the search for a killer who wasn't a murderer.

I picked this book up meaning to read just a few chapters. I finished it by the end of the day.
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sweetwind avatar reviewed A Nice Derangement of Epitaphs (Inspector George Felse, Bk 4) on + 10 more book reviews
I picked this up thinking it was a Brother Cadfael mystery since there was a sort of medieval cover with an old gravestone and a reference to a death centuries in the past. But it is a George Felse mystery, Peters' urbane inspector from contemporary (i.e. 1965) times. Reminds me of the Gervase Fen mysteries of Edmund Crispin. There was way too much witty banter that I couldn't get without multiple re-reads of the dialog, and which seems way too witty for the circumstances sometimes. Am I really supposed to be familiar with Dryden? The love subplot could have been cut out entirely, it is the smallest scrap of a plot and the only reason poor Tamsin was in the book at all. Other than that the multiple subplots merged meaningfully into a solid whole


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