- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: Berkley (MM); First Edition edition (Mar 1 1995)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0425146405
- ISBN-13: 978-0425146408
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 9.9 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 68 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #80,818 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Cecily Sinclair, owner of the seaside Pennyfoot Hotel in Edwardian England, returns in a mystery that finds her simultaneously investigating the fall of a gentleman from her top balcony and calming her extremely upset guests.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Another entertaining cozy mystery.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Check Out Time (Paperback)
As always Kate Kingsbury manages to throw in some twists to the lives of the inhabitants in the Pennyfoot Hotel. The addition of Cecily's son and African wife and a new charming doorman who comes between Phoebe and Altheada. All the books in this series is worth reading.
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3.2 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews) 3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
The author does not know her business,
By David Wilkin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Check Out Time (Paperback)
From bad to worse. Kingsbury is just pretty bad at her craft. This time the only saving grace is that the mystery has more meat then in the three previous outings. Yet there are three elements that ruin the book
First can you see an Edwardian Officer leaving the service to run a Pub with a Fuzzy-Wuzzy native wife back in the south of England on the Dover Road? This is how bad it gets. But it is not some minor character to us. It is the beloved son of the heroine. Here we have a modern woman forcing her views on a prior time. If such would happen, it would be so few and far between that it would be extraordinary. Why much up the book with this. Then we have voodoo. The sticking pins in doll type. That is Haitian or New Orleans voodoo which the author attributes to West Africa. This took me right out of the book. The author just thought to mention something that an educated person would not give credence too. Forcing me to confirm my knowledge and stop my reading. And further find fault with this historical, for it has no bearing on history. Last, the lower class servant employed at this very uppercrust resort has a POV with this "leaning over him with her tits brushing his shoulder..." while I am sure that lower class men might think of a 1908 bosom as tits, a serving girl in a very respectable establishment. It was beyond vulgar. Again the author took me right out of the story. So can I recommend this to anyone. Save your money and stay away from this author. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not the best cozy I've ever read,
By S. Schwartz "romonko" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Check Out Time (Paperback)
Up to this book I've been enjoying the Pennyfoot Hotel series. I like the seaside Georgian setting, and I like the recurring characters (especially the maid Gertie). This book still has the characters and that is good, but the story was definitely lacking in plot and in suspense. It is almost simplistic in its style, and I did not enjoy that. I love the cozy genre, but I love a multi-layered story that keeps me coming back in order that I can learn what is happening to the characters that I have come to love. This book did not do it for me this time, but I will try some more, and hope for better.
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another entertaining cozy mystery.,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Check Out Time (Paperback)
As always Kate Kingsbury manages to throw in some twists to the lives of the inhabitants in the Pennyfoot Hotel. The addition of Cecily's son and African wife and a new charming doorman who comes between Phoebe and Altheada. All the books in this series is worth reading.
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