![]() This was by both the investigators and the other suspects. This was accompanied by adjectives and verbs of descriptions and actions which again portrayed the same characters as willowy… glided… fluted… begged… bleated… flounced… etc. A sampling here: "What a loathly, what a nauseating, what an unspeakable little dollop." "that little beast", “Fauntleroy take little Eric", "Gemini, possibly heavenly", "a little pig", "that little animal", "horrible youth", "unattractive", "two hothouse flowers", "perhaps the Greeks had a word for him", "those two queens", "little drip", "a monster'', "that sissy", "the unspeakable", "you two bloody little pansies." The number of putdowns was so over the top that I started marking them in my Kindle notes. ![]() I found myself completely distracted by the homophobic asides in this now dated 1936 mystery. ![]() ![]() Review of the Felony & Mayhem Press Kindle eBook edition (2013) of the Geoffrey Bles hardcover original (1936) ![]()
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