Hillary Tamar, the character at the center of these satisfying mysteries, is the sort of Oxford don “who starts being elderly at the age of 22.”
, will be released in December—tips off listeners to Caudwell’s narratorial trickery. Narrator Lorna Bennett explains that “keeping Hillary’s gender ambiguous in these audiobook editions proved virtually impossible.” Bennett doesn’t give herself enough credit, and the prefaces seem unnecessary.
One of the most refreshing qualities of Caudwell’s mysteries is their blithe, unlabored integration of old-fashioned, Agatha Christie-style puzzles with more contemporary mores and values. Her characters take same-sex relationships and bisexuality as a given. Julia, for all her ineptitude, pursues a series of successful seductions without expressing the slightest interest in marrying any of them.
Best of all, her performance of Hillary sacrifices none of the character’s enigmas, leaving the series’ most intriguing mystery of all safely unsolved. It’s a rare piece of fizzy entertainment that succeeds so ingeniously in capsizing common assumptions about gender and sex—and Caudwell wrote four of such books.
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