tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post5484319611998993831..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': The Deaths by Mark Lawson - reviewMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-84619675484470687252014-06-23T22:50:56.056+01:002014-06-23T22:50:56.056+01:00I've just finished this book and need despera...I've just finished this book and need desperately to know whether I'm correct in thinking what happens to one of the characters?!???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-33177769465345802102014-02-05T22:28:40.090+00:002014-02-05T22:28:40.090+00:00Mr. Edwards,
You are the only person I have seen o...Mr. Edwards,<br />You are the only person I have seen on the Internet who actually always responds to comments. Thank you for your politeness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-7019911795746393342014-02-05T19:41:27.301+00:002014-02-05T19:41:27.301+00:00Hi Moira, yes, he's very clever as well as fun...Hi Moira, yes, he's very clever as well as funny, and I think you will enjoy this one. You're right about the nit-picks, though if aiming to capture the condition of Britain, details matter more than in some other books.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-44606716582708518932014-02-05T19:39:42.833+00:002014-02-05T19:39:42.833+00:00Anon - thanks, you are quite right. Also, Anita Bo...Anon - thanks, you are quite right. Also, Anita Boutell wrote at least one, and Pat McGerr some others.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-67820664540091601912014-02-05T15:05:27.958+00:002014-02-05T15:05:27.958+00:00I usually enjoy Mark Lawson's journalistic wri...I usually enjoy Mark Lawson's journalistic writings very much, I find him clever and funny. I've been thinking I ought to try his fiction, so perhaps this is the one to launch into. I love your complaints - it's so funny the way we all see the mistakes closest to our own lives. The rest of us probably wouldn't notice your nitpicks at all....Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-34931243849952687132014-02-04T22:58:19.281+00:002014-02-04T22:58:19.281+00:00I seem to recall at least two other "whodunin...I seem to recall at least two other "whodunin" mysteries,to use the term from Barzun and Taylor: Pick Your Victim by Patricia McGerr (1946), and The Man Who Did Not Fly by Margot Bennett (1956).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com