Review: This was a hoot!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 6, 2013
Short and sweet, this gives a nice snapshot of the era written about, a solidly crafted plot, with engaging characters who develop fairly well in a short space and time. It missed earing 5 stars only because the female consistently states how unworthy she is of the attentions of the male. She's plain, she's intellectual, he's shallow.  Those kinds of statemenets almost paint the characters as paper dolls or cartoon characters.  The characters themselves seem to take over and flesh out a bit, with a little help from some amusing minor characters.  And of course there are the stock ploys for building 'suspense': misdirection, misunderstanding, misinterpretation of apparent facts, etc. Still, a very enjoyable read!