Review: A tad old-fashioned
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2014
Miss Butterworth is a well-to-do spinster from a respectable New York family. Her curiosity for her neighbours is rewarded when she helps the police discover a murder in the house next door, and unravel its mystery. The plot is s simple one, but it is told in such a convoluted way as to puzzle the reader and hold his or her attention until the final revelation. Miss Butterworth's first person narrative is meant as a humorous device, she being very observant and critical of others, but sometimes blind to her own shortcomings. The old fashioned style and the many purple patches worsen in the second and third books, the latter using  a rather trite third person narrative which makes  one miss the butterworthian soliloquies.