Review: A jolly good British farce
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2014
Millicent Fargenstropple is not a woman to be trifled with, and when she visits Chief Inspector Morgan’s office (incidentally breaking the door as she does so) he makes haste to investigate the trouble at the Manor.This is just the beginning of a hilarious romp through one of the more eccentric English country houses. In this story the reader meets radio-controlled ferrets, homicidal dogs that can only be approached on horseback, and a fine array of possible suspects.This is the first book I have read by Lia London and I must say I’m impressed. Farce is a notoriously difficult genre and not many people succeed in pulling it off.  But this one works splendidly. Reminiscent of ‘Blott on the Landscape’ and ‘Fawlty Towers’, both fine examples of jolly good British farce, this is a book for the connoisseur. Don’t read it in public. You may make a fool of yourself and start laughing out loud.