Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins make an incomparable pair of sleuths in the start of a delightful new series Following her successful appearance at an Embassy Ball--where Eliza Doolittle won Professor Henry Higgins' bet that he could pass off a Cockney flower girl as a duchess--Eliza becomes an assistant to his chief rival Emil Nepommuck. After Nepommuck publicly takes credit for transforming Eliza into a lady, an enraged Higgins submits proof to a London newspaper that Nepommuck is a fraud. When Nepommuck is found ...
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Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins make an incomparable pair of sleuths in the start of a delightful new series Following her successful appearance at an Embassy Ball--where Eliza Doolittle won Professor Henry Higgins' bet that he could pass off a Cockney flower girl as a duchess--Eliza becomes an assistant to his chief rival Emil Nepommuck. After Nepommuck publicly takes credit for transforming Eliza into a lady, an enraged Higgins submits proof to a London newspaper that Nepommuck is a fraud. When Nepommuck is found with a dagger in his back, Henry Higgins becomes Scotland Yard's prime suspect. However, Eliza learns that most of Nepommuck's pupils had a reason to murder their blackmailing teacher. As another suspect turns up dead and evidence goes missing, Eliza and Higgins realize the only way to clear the Professor's name is to discover which of Nepommuck's many enemies is the real killer. When all the suspects attend a performance of Hamlet at Drury Lane, Eliza and Higgins don their theatre best and race to upstage a murderer. This reimagining of George Bernard Shaw's beloved characters is sheer pleasure. Wouldn't It Be Deadly transports readers to Edwardian London, from the aristocratic environs of Mayfair to the dangerous back alleys of the East End. Eliza and Henry steal the show in this charming traditional mystery.
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An Eliza Doolittle & Henry Higgins Mystery. The concept seemed divine (absolutely loverly!) to me when I first heard of it -- a new series written all about 2 of my favorite fictional characters. My Fair Lady happens to be my favorite film ever produced. Regrettably, I have a couple of personal issues with this new book, and won't be recommending it to like-minded readers who dislike the same issues.
Wouldn't It Be Deadly picks up after My Fair Lady. Eliza Dooolittle is now a refined (or sometimes not-so-refined) lady with a suitable job. Her new life is going well... until... murder strikes! Pretty soon her beloved Professor Higgins is all mixed up in the case, and she's worried that he will be arrested... The full story is much more intriguing, but that's the gist of it.
Three big things stood out as negative content to me:
1. "Rough" language is used all throughout.
2. Multiple immoral affairs between characters come to the surface.
3. A man masquerades as a woman and dresses as one.
I usually don't read books with this sort of content. I only stuck with this one because I love the story of My Fair Lady so much, and it was so thrilling to see Eliza and Henry together again in a new adventure. Still, I dislike the book, as much as I want to love it.
It's a very well-plotted novel (even if I did call out the killer only 1/4 of the way into the book... sorry to say). I found all the characters to have good depth, and the story was built well.
A few great things to mention. The author(s) researched the time period of London 1913 well. Some tidbits that the historian in me was delighted with (I might have deviously giggled over these) include:
1. Mentioning the shipwreck of the Titanic only a year prior to the story (I'm a Titanic buff).
2. Henry and Eliza realizing that their sleuthing mirrored Holmes and Watson (my other two favorite fictional characters).
3. Bringing the silver screen actor John Barrymore into the novel, and referencing his brother Lionel (a favorite actor of mine!).
4. A character mentioning how like Pygmalion and Galatea that Henry and Eliza are (a full circle reference).
So, thank you, D.E. Ireland, for bringing those intriguing facts to light. It made parts of the story more enjoyable.
My final thoughts? Fans of My Fair Lady or Pygmalion would love it -- but only if you don't mind the issues that I personally didn't appreciate seeing in the story.
"This was all getting too murky. Higgins could scarcely believe that only last month, he had been enjoying the sun and sonorous dialects of Spain. Now he was being hauled in and out of Scotland Yard, learning unhappy secrets about men he barely knew, and worrying that he had dragged Eliza into what had become a deadly situation." (Chapter 13, Wouldn't It Be Deadly)
