What I liked about this book: the author's wry humor and acute social observations; the portraits of male types; the more individualized portrait of Albert Campion.

What I disliked: the dated quality of her perspective, which sometimes left me bewildered at something that seemed obvious to her; the caricatures of female types (virgin, whore, scullery maid); the plot turning on the question of who was too honorable to spill the beans on whom--even at the cost of other people's lives.

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