I recently read Laurie R. King's Justice Hall, a murder mystery set partly in a home that is not only an English country house, but a duke's, which is full of people playing with identities, and a duke who doesn't want the job because he wants to go back to Palestine. It's set in 1923, and very definitely in the shadow of the First World War--though if Britain has such a thing as a soul, major wars and their aftermaths would be part of that. (This is a Sherlock Holmes AU, but Holmes being fictional, that doesn't make it alternate history in any other sense.)
Recommended, though not as cozy as you might expect from a mystery set in an English country home: if you know Dorothy Sayers, think The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club more than Clouds of Witness/em>.
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Recommended, though not as cozy as you might expect from a mystery set in an English country home: if you know Dorothy Sayers, think The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club more than Clouds of Witness/em>.
(I wrote the first paragraph of this as a comment to a post of
oursin's.)Tags: