A review by michael5000
The Fashion in Shrouds by Margery Allingham

2.0

To be honest, I barely remember this book I listened to a few months ago. I could barely attend to it at the time, and, unusually, had to occasionally rewind and listen to long chunks where I hadn't paid attention. Well, it's been a difficult time. But I also think that ol' Margery and I are not an author/reader pair made in heaven. I seem to remember this other times I've tried reading her, too: I have a sense that maybe she was a sharper and smarter author at the time than some of her peers whose works, being a little more generic, have aged better -- but that much of the topical content and hipness has become invisible to us latter-day readers.

It's also possible that it just isn't a very great book, but somehow I'm inclined to think there's more here than meets the eye, or at least MY eye.