
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This book was originally Published in 1968 and has just been reissued. If you want a light, cozy mystery with a touch of parody, you should enjoy this book. The story takes place in a small village that is relatively self-sufficient, but only has about 500 inhabitants. The villagers are enjoyable for the most part but very different. You have the vicar who has lost his belief but is too lazy to change careers, and his sister, Sir George, his wife and son Nigel as well as many others. They are all busy bodies and when the find out that Miss Seeton took on a murderer with her umbrella, they all want to know what happened. Every incident that she is involved in becomes fraught with rumor and inuendo in the village. Miss Seeton is a retired art teacher who has inherited a house from her aged cousin/godmother. After leaving a performance of Carmen in London, she stumbles onto a murder that draws her into a mystery involving drugs, murder, greed and embezzlement. She seems to bumble her way into situations and uses her trusted brolly to save the day. When questioned by the police, she draws her way out by providing Scotland yard with artist's impressions of suspects and situations that just happen to hold the keys to more than one case. Her pictures show her impressions of the subject, not just a picture of the faces. The various police officers also add some comic relief to the stories. There are five books in this series and so far they have reissued 3 of them. I am going to try another one in the series and see if I enjoy it a little more.
I received a copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
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