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- Publisher: Constable & Co Ltd (2000)
- ASIN: B0016ANFA0
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Funny, but use of 'N' word offensive,
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This review is from: Lestrade and the Sign of Nine (The Lestrade Mystery Series) (Volume 12) (Hardcover)
Inspector Lestrade, along with his Sergeant George George must track down a killer who bludgens his victims all over England and Wales, selects only bad people, and is described in a number of ways. Sherlock Holmes and Watson get in the way with Watson being every bit the incompetent Doyle made him out, but with Holmes being cruel in his own supposed intelligence.This is a very funny book. Full of puns, cockney-accented discussions of the meaning of the dialectic and the coming revolution, police incompetence, and British bungling, it will make you laugh out loud. The final sequence, involving a number of police in black-face and frequent use of the 'N' word was intended to be funny. I found it offensive and dropped my rating as a result.
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The gentleman with the mournful face and obsolete Dundrearies wandered through his own foundations for the last time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Scotland Yard, Sergeant George, Assistant Commissioner, Inspector Lestrade, Sir Anthony, Pretty Boy, Chief Inspector, Miss Ratcliffe, Baker Street, John Guest, Nine Men's Morris, Squire Ralston, Reverend Rodney, Byngham Batchelor, Great Detective, Lady Warren, Metropolitan Police, Amos Flower, Lisson Grove, Sherlock Holmes, Sholto Lestrade, Captain Dance, Good God, Opera House, Osbaldeston Ralston New!
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The gentleman with the mournful face and obsolete Dundrearies wandered through his own foundations for the last time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Scotland Yard, Sergeant George, Assistant Commissioner, Inspector Lestrade, Sir Anthony, Pretty Boy, Chief Inspector, Miss Ratcliffe, Baker Street, John Guest, Nine Men's Morris, Squire Ralston, Reverend Rodney, Byngham Batchelor, Great Detective, Lady Warren, Metropolitan Police, Amos Flower, Lisson Grove, Sherlock Holmes, Sholto Lestrade, Captain Dance, Good God, Opera House, Osbaldeston Ralston New!
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- A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle on page 46
- Woman in White by Wilkie Collins on page 91
- Lestrade and the Ripper (The Lestrade Mystery Series) (Volume 6) by M. J. Trow in Front Matter
- Lay of the Last Minstrel, The (See F4) by Sir Walter Scott on page 39
- The Woman in White (Bantam Classics) by Wilkie Collins on page 91
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