tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984067990467963645.post7786103987273948007..comments2024-03-21T22:22:59.425-07:00Comments on Vintage Pop Fictions: Francis Duncan's Behold a Fair Womandfordoomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984067990467963645.post-5333351320823665812018-04-11T16:51:05.196-07:002018-04-11T16:51:05.196-07:00I'll add So Pretty a Problem to my shopping li...I'll add <em>So Pretty a Problem</em> to my shopping list, thanks.dfordoomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02306293859869179118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6984067990467963645.post-85203195189548554682018-04-11T15:18:36.698-07:002018-04-11T15:18:36.698-07:00Somehow I missed this review. This was not my favo...Somehow I missed this review. This was not my favorite of the Duncan books that have been reprinted, but I liked it better than you. However, it's much better than the frenzied melodrama that fuels his book about the amateur theater company (MURDER HAS A MOTIVE). I recommend you try Duncan again and read SO PRETTY A PROBLEM which is the absolute best of the lot. It includes a very cleverly thought out impossible crime and the clueing is much better, in parts it is extremely subtle.<br /><br />I'd rate the book you reviewed here slightly higher than you because I admire his mature characterization and the profound sense of doom about the many criminals in the story. He was so much better at using crime to explore mature themes than some of his more highly regarded contemporaries and his complex, human characters really do make the books such great reading.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.com