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Hasty Death

par Marion Chesney

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Eager to join the working classes, Lady Rose Summer has abandoned the comforts of her parents' home to become self-supporting. But life as a working woman isn't quite what Rose had imagined-long hours as a typist and nights spent in a dreary women's hostel are not very empowering when you're poor, cold, and tired. Luckily for Rose, her drudgery comes to a merciful end when she learns of the untimely death of an acquaintance.

Freddy Pomfret, a silly and vacuous young man, was almost certainly up to no good before he was shot dead in his London flat. When Rose discovers incriminating evidence pointing to several members of her class, she returns to London high society in order to investigate properly. With the help of Captain Harry Cathcart and Superintendent Kerridge of Scotland Yard, Rose prepares to do the social rounds-uncovering a devious blackmail plot and an unexpected killer.

Set in Britain during the Edwardian world of parties, servants, and scandal, M. C. Beaton's Hasty Death is a delightful combination of murderous intrigue and high society.

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Marion Chesney's trademark style - unapologetically clumsy but endearing way of concluding all plot lines in a paragraph. I still love her. ( )
  CatherineB61 | May 31, 2023 |
Book 2 - Rose with her companion Daisy continue to get into dangerous situations trying to solve another murder as her now fiance Harry to the rescue. Love this adventure! ( )
  booklovers2 | Aug 6, 2022 |
Summer in Peril
Review of the Blackstone Audio Inc. audiobook edition (October 2008) of the original Minotaur hardcover (June 2004)

I've just about completed my pandemic reading splurge of cozy mysteries by M.C. Beaton, the penname used by Marion Chesney (1936-2019) for her popular Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin series. Chesney first became a writer with various historical romances from 1977 onwards, before branching out into the crime genre with her first Hamish Macbeth in 1985 and first Agatha Raisin in 1992. Romances are not my genre, but Chesney's mini-series of 4 Edwardian Murder Mysteries sounded like a possible crossover between her historical fiction and her cozy mysteries.

Hasty Death continues with the story of Lady Rose Summer and Captain Harry Cathcart. I'm actually finding the social commentary aspect of these Edwardian era mysteries to be the more interesting element. The side plot here of Rose Summer being locked up by her parents as a hysteric in the women's asylum of an unscrupulous 'doctor' was much more dramatic and suspenseful than the supposed main mystery plot. The earlier subplot of Rose Summer and her companion Daisy Levine attempting to make a living as typists and living in a working women's hostel was also another insight into the working conditions of that era. In the end, Cathcart comes up with a temporary solution to prevent Summer's parents from shipping her off to India, the apparent destination of those debutantes who failed at their season's coming out events.

The narration by veteran Davina Porter (approx. 230 book narrations to her credit) was excellent throughout. Porter is especially good with her range of voices that is able to effectively mimic male as well as female tones.

All of the Edwardian Murder Mysteries series are available free to Audible Plus members. ( )
  alanteder | Nov 12, 2021 |
Rose Sumner & Maj. Cathbert tracking killers of society blackmailer
  ritaer | Jul 10, 2021 |
Captain Harry Cathcart, the impoverished younger son of a baron, has become known as "The Fixer", a private detective with the knack of quietly "fixing" things for the upper class.

Much to the dismay & chagrin of her parents; Lady Rose has just rejected another marriage proposal, this time from a man 30 years her senior, and has taken it into her head that she wants to become an independent working woman. Her parents agree to purchase Rose a typewriter and she & Daisy learn to type and take dictation. With the help of Harry, they secure a job typing ledgers in a bank.

When Freddy Pomfret is murdered in his flat after a weekend-long house party for singles; where the season's female "failures" (including lady Rose) are set up to find a husband. Rose snoops into his bank account and finds 3 £10,000 deposits from 3 different sources, thus convincing her that Freddy was blackmailing people.

When Lady Rose returns home after her dismal work experience & demands that her maid Daisy become her paid "companion"; her parents (at the suggestion of her mother's jealous maid) send her away to an asylum for "difficult" women; it is Harry & Daisy who find a way to break Rose out, rescue the drugged & starved inmates, arrest the staff and close the asylum down.

After Rose's rescue and subsequent shaming of her parents; Rose & Daisy are invited for a weekend at Lord & Lady Glensheil's along with the murder suspects... yet another murder occurs. Harry enlists the help of his aide Beckett, Lady Rose, and her companion Daisy to find out what exactly Freddy had on each of his victims. When Lady Rose discovers letter & photos of the blackmail victims in a cigar box of Freddy's each is confronted in turn, leaving Rose once again in peril.

Again, I like the characters, I liked the story... it was a light, fun & compelling read; which I read between 2:00 & 4:11 am this morning! ( )
  Auntie-Nanuuq | Feb 23, 2019 |
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Eager to join the working classes, Lady Rose Summer has abandoned the comforts of her parents' home to become self-supporting. But life as a working woman isn't quite what Rose had imagined-long hours as a typist and nights spent in a dreary women's hostel are not very empowering when you're poor, cold, and tired. Luckily for Rose, her drudgery comes to a merciful end when she learns of the untimely death of an acquaintance.

Freddy Pomfret, a silly and vacuous young man, was almost certainly up to no good before he was shot dead in his London flat. When Rose discovers incriminating evidence pointing to several members of her class, she returns to London high society in order to investigate properly. With the help of Captain Harry Cathcart and Superintendent Kerridge of Scotland Yard, Rose prepares to do the social rounds-uncovering a devious blackmail plot and an unexpected killer.

Set in Britain during the Edwardian world of parties, servants, and scandal, M. C. Beaton's Hasty Death is a delightful combination of murderous intrigue and high society.

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