Duplicate Death

This book just wasn't my cup of tea. First, it's about 100 pages until we get to the crime and the interesting Inspector Hemingway enters the scene. Before that, the only interesting people are the Kanes and Beulah, and we don't see enough of them. Instead, we are treated to 1950s high society: gambling, parties, cursing, jealousies, and bad attitudes.

I got to where I simply couldn't take any more of the very strong language (not shy of the strongest allowed in society in those days, with b* being the least offensive, and repeated variations of profanities), and of the insipid, nasty society people. I skimmed to the end to find out who did the crime and what happened to Beulah and the Kanes, and called it done.

*Content: heavy profanity