country-house, closed-circle-mystery, murder, murder-investigation, law-enforcement, spies, mysteries, England, false-identities, false-information, thievery, situational-humor, verbal-humor, sly-humor*****

Multiple plots, subplots, false identities, fascinating characters, and fun. I got this as an audio on the cheap and narrator Cornelius Garrett transformed it from delightfully confusing to absolutely hilarious by means of his accent adaptive talents. ( )

jolly entertaining. proper drawing room mystery with jewel thieves, secret passages, butlers, etc. ( )

A solid entry in the "murder at a country house party in interwar England" genre. James Anderson has his tongue just enough in cheek to add some extra enjoyment for the reader, but not so much that Affair of the Blood Stained Egg Cosy descends into farce. It's got about everything you could want from this kind of book—impoverished daughters of the gentry, Texan oil millionaires, blackmail, aristocrats, Ruritanian duchies, and so on—which make it an ideal read on a lazy, rainy weekend. ( )

Lots of misdirection in this story of 1930's england, a house party and thievery and skulduggery. I honestly didn't get the who dunnit until I was told. Gun collection features, with theft and a body that turns up in the lake, even though everyone is accounted for, apparently. ( )

Terrifies setting,and fun characters. My favorite: set the '30's at a British manor with lots of ill behaved elite. ( )