A Royal Pain
(Royal Spyness #2)
by Rhys Bowen
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The alarm clock woke me this morning at the ungodly hour of eight. One of my nanny’s favorite sayings was “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.” My father did both and look what happened to him. He died, penniless, at forty-nine.
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“Come on in, ducks,” she said, almost hauling me inside. “I’ll tell you where your granddad is.”
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I love that intro. It would’ve got me hooked!
trish – my teaser
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Thanks for coming by to comment and leave your link, Trish. How cool that yours this week is for Go Set a Watchman!
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Eight would be sleeping in for me. 🙂 This does sound like a fun read. I love a good mystery. I don’t think I have read anything by Rhys Bowen before, sadly. I will have to remedy that.
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LOL, same here. This is the third series I’m reading by Bowen. The first was Constable Evans. It’s finished. I love her Molly Murphy series and it is till going.
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I’ve been wanting to start this series for quite some time. I need to begin because the number of books is getting bigger and bigger. LOL
Love the teaser!
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Even though I love her Molly Murphy series, I didn’t start this one for ages because I thought I wouldn’t like books with royalty set in the 1930s. Selah told me not to worry about the royalty bit as that’s not Georgie at all. She was right – I got hooked within the first few pages of the first one.
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I liked the intro and would try more.sounds fun
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Thanks, Diane. They really are fun. I can’t believe I didn’t read them all these years.
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Great excerpts! I haven’t read this author, but now I want to do so. Thanks for sharing…and for visiting my blog.
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Bowen now has two series going. The other is Molly Murphy, set in NYC circa 1900 or so, more serious than these “Georgie” ones.
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It all works for me. Sounds fun!
Thanks for stopping by my teaser.
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It is a very fun read so far, Laura. I just wish I wasn’t side-tracked by life, lol.
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Good intro! Sounds like it is going to be a good read 😀 Mystery series’ are awesome!
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Thanks, Shannon. I totally agree about mystery series. I don’t even have time to follow the ones I’ve started because I keep adding new ones. Addicted apparently.
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Dagny,
Something slightly different:
“It is wonderful to think what a turn has been given to our whole Society by the fact that we live under the sign of Aquarius,–that our climate is essentially wet. A arbitrary distinction, like the walking-swords of yore, might have remained the symbol of foresight and respectability, had not the raw mists and dropping showers of our island pointed the inclination of Society to another exponent of those virtues. A ribbon of the Legion of Honour or a string of medals may prove a person’s courage; a title may probe his birth; a professorial chair his study and acquirement; but it is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of “Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowledged index of social position.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
_The Lantern-Bearer and Other Essays_
This has gathered enough dust, so I decided to move away a bit from crime and social issues for something more esoteric and enlightening.
And how can one not think of Mr. Steed while reading that first paragraph–Mr. Urbane Respectability himself. I suspect that, in my imagination, as I wander through the text, the umbrella carrier will carry a familiar face as well (with one eyebrow raised, of course).
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My first thought was totally different from yours, Fred. It was Reginald Perrin who popped into my mind and his wife handing him the umbrella in the opening credits sequence. I don’t know if you ever had occasion to see that show starring Leonard Rossiter. I preferred his Rising Damp series, but the Reggie Perrin was pretty good, at least in the beginning. Of course Rising Damp also had Frances de la Tour who I now enjoy in Vicious.
I am sans an umbrella and thus respectability – and it shows.
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Dagny,
No, I haven’t seen the show with Reginald Perrin–what is it’s name? I have heard of Rising Damp, but I haven’t watched that one either.
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It’s an old one, Fred. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073990/ When I was looking for a link to send you, it looks like a few episodes are on Youtube. I don’t know how funny each individual episode would be because it’s a linear series. I much prefer Rising Damp anyway. http://epguides.com/RisingDamp/
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Dagny,
Living in Tucson, I don’t find an overwhelming need for an umbrella, and respectability has long gone.
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Ha, well respectability probably isn’t all that much fun anyway. I had an umbrella growing up. It was when I moved to Arizona that I gave it up. It definitely needs to be replaced now that I am in Alabama.
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I absolutely LOVED this book. I enjoyed the first one in the series, but the second was better. So … when are we going to read the third?
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I’d love to say I’ll be going right into the third as soon as this one is done, but the screaming TBR pile advises me to look at the writing on the wall. 🙂 Realistically, maybe late September.
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Good intro although I’d debate that 8 O’clock is early!
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LOL, Cleo. Pretty much all of us are debating that.
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I really enjoy this series! The first one I read was the one set at Christmas – can’t think of the name right now. And I’ve bounced around the series since then.
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The Twelve Clues of Christmas. According to one list it is the 6th novel. Since I got such a late start reading these and most are now out in paperback, I’m able to read them in order. They’re a lot of fun and I love Georgie and her grandfather.
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Thanks! Yes that was the one. It’s been by favorite so far. 🙂
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You’re welcome. It was easy since they’re all lined up on my shelf, lol. Really looking forward to it now!
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