Sheer pleasure! Funny, intelligent story of a guy trying to find out what's really going at a school with too many suspicious deaths. Here's my favorite passage, which conveys the tone:"Rich had had a long apprenticeship with the wealthy and had learned the hard way what gave them pleasure. Early on he had sussed out how you made friends with those who were actually your employers. He modelled himself on those hairdressers and fashion designers of international repute who rubbed shoulders with princesses and the wives of tycoons.The key was to dress as well as the BPs, have manner that were better than theirs, and be such fun that their real friends--their equals--congratulated them on their finds. But what was much more vital was never to presume. If they invited one to their parties once accepted with delight; if they did not, one never showed resentment: one had no rights. In a nutshell, you sang for your supper and knew your place. And you did that while giving the impression that you loved them for themselves and were indifferent to their money. The combination of requirements would have been almost impossible to achieve had it not been that the wealthy were themselves part of the conspiracy. Because they wanted to be loved for themselves or at least to appear to be loved for themselves, they helped the illusion along.
Do You like book The English School Of Murder (2001)?
