foxrain reviewed La Dame en blanc by Wilkie Collins
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3 stars
I accidentally borrowed this abridged version of the book from the library. It is less than 100 pages long and I read it in one sitting. It's alright though, this shorter version works quite well for a Victorian mystery novel, most of which would be fluff about aristocrats and family trees and whatever anyway. In this version, the events of the mystery proceeded quickly and it was actually quite a fun and light reading experience.
The story itself was what I expected it to be: a prototypical Victorian mystery with upper-class drama, oppression of women and fancy men in suits doing fancy (and suspicious!) stuff. I'm glad I didn't spend days or weeks reading the full version of the story because I think I would have been disappointed about what the "horrible and dark secret" of Sir Percival Glyde was. Let's just say that it's a good fit to the …
I accidentally borrowed this abridged version of the book from the library. It is less than 100 pages long and I read it in one sitting. It's alright though, this shorter version works quite well for a Victorian mystery novel, most of which would be fluff about aristocrats and family trees and whatever anyway. In this version, the events of the mystery proceeded quickly and it was actually quite a fun and light reading experience.
The story itself was what I expected it to be: a prototypical Victorian mystery with upper-class drama, oppression of women and fancy men in suits doing fancy (and suspicious!) stuff. I'm glad I didn't spend days or weeks reading the full version of the story because I think I would have been disappointed about what the "horrible and dark secret" of Sir Percival Glyde was. Let's just say that it's a good fit to the premise of upper-class drama and fancy men doing fancy and suspicious stuff. But since I spent like 2 or 3 hours on this book, it was actually quite a fun read.
