Sheer Folly by Carola Dunn. (A Daisy Dalrymple mystery, 18) 296 pp.
A pretty good installment of this long-running cozy series. One reason I like it is the setting: Great Britain post-WWI. The main character is (minor) nobility, but she chose to marry a commoner--a Detective Inspector in Scotland Yard. Women's roles are changing, and society as a whole is trying to come to grips with changing social roles. This particular book, involving the murder of a wealthy but obnoxious lord at a country house party, had quite a lot of social stuff: peers vs. commoners, wealth vs. status, "superior" servants vs. other servants. These books aren't deep but they are fun.
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