anne perry's victorian murder mystery and your comments

 

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i received a comment and question from o.k. of akron, who i have known for years and yet did not realize until today that her initials were o.k.!! speaking of this blog, she says, 'I did enjoy the candor of your comments in discussing other authors. The other thing I noticed is the casualness of caps and punctuation, etc. That's not the way I know your writing. Is this peculiar to blog writing? '

 

thanks for the compliment re: blog content. as to my style: when i was  a child, my first typewriter was single case, upper case only. i learned to write that way. it is quicker and i hope reads with more spontaneity, although i do spend a great deal of time composing my blog. it is not off-the-cuff. i did not realize that i was being casual about punctuation. any so-called casualness in grammar or punctuation is, in truth, an error, and i should be chastised. gently.

 

i am now reading another novel from another series. what is this? there must be some independent writers out there publishing novels that stand alone.

 

the novel i'm reading is anne perry's acceptable loss.

this is part of the william monk victorian detective/policeman series. perry is also the author of the charlotte and thomas pitt, victorian policeman novels. yes, i do get them confused, though i think charlotte is a little gentler than monk's wife hester. and william monk has memory problems for a distinguishing feature. as you can guess, this does interfere with his policeman duties at times. the series was really more interesting when memory was a bigger problem. at present monk seems to be living more in the here and now.

 

and an ugly here and now it is with pornography and paid sex with young boys on a thames river boat taking the lead. the book is a continuation of a previous one that treats the same subject. there are many, many references to this previous book, which i have not read. also we readers are given many, many references to hester's work in the crimean war. even if we hadn't read any previous books in the series, one or two mentions would suffice.

 

characters we have met in other books in the series return, now pitched against each other instead of the steadfast friends they once were. some people might not like this. i doubt if it will make any difference to perry's loyal fans or any of those entranced by the interesting sub-genre of victorian detective fiction.

 

the novel is published by the random house publishing group and is 305 pages.

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