Welcome to Litsy!

Back to the whole book + SleepyCasey thing. I‘m enjoying DOUBLE EAGLE a lot more than I did DEEP HOUSE, but King‘s mysteries do feel a bit repetitive when you read three of them in pretty quick succession. He repeats a lot of his scene-setting and/or character-defining details, which helps when it‘s been a while and doesn‘t when it hasn‘t. The inconsistencies leap out, too, like how Ivory ages about four years in four months. 🤷‍♀️

In this installment, I was here more for Thumps‘s personal life than for the mystery. The coin dealers all sounded the same: smug and annoying. I didn‘t care if any of them were the victim, and I did not follow the plot very well. But I loved reading about how Thumps has been dragged into the 21st century, the continued development of his relationship with Claire, and the rapid-fire conversations with his friends.

Claire: Do we know who her family might be?
Moses: Not yet, but my little grey cells are working on it.
Thumps: You should grow a moustache. Get a nice homburg. A cane and pince-nez.
Moses: You could be my Captain Hastings.
Thumps: Sure. You could solve all the mysteries, and I could stand around looking perplexed.
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