A Generation of Vipers: An absolutely addictive and page-turning British cozy mystery (A Dr Nell Ward Mystery Book 4)

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The best-selling midcentury author was born in 1902 to Presbyterian minister Edmund Wylie and novelist Edna Edwards Wylie, who died giving birth to a sibling when Philip was five. It stuck together because a few men with a few ideals, wily compromisers who failed to compromise, were backed in a civil war by the industrial half of the union against the agricultural South. I loved how this story showcased Lewis's compassion, particularly in how he could relate to Miranda's desire for a "simpler," tech-free life. A minute later, they’re on national telly: taking the suspect down, their simultaeneous head tilts, agreeing that, yes, good job, that, still lost in the awareness of only their prey and each other; until they look up. The concept is really getting back on track here - now all the foolish wedding shenanigans are done and it focuses on an actual crime.

And your brother Max went on, he said, “Now Phil’s trying to compensate for the almost total motherlessness of his own life with a shell of cynicism about mothers.They frighten politicians to sniveling servility and they terrify pastors; they bother bank presidents and they pulverize school boards.

A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. Phil’s term Momism has lasted a long time and some of his ideas brought a lot home to young people: for example, women who boasted about having gold star flags in their windows — meaning sons who’d been killed in the war. The second episode of Inspector Lewis's fifth season on Masterpiece Mystery features two of my favorite things -- Shakespeare and Toby Stephens (I figure by this point my passion for Lewis and Hathaway goes without saying, lol! Fueled with anger -- and, one likes to imagine, several quarts of 100-proof Old Mencken -- he let fly.They feel free to post your personal details wherever and whenever they choose, but just try to request access to their files in the course of a murder investigation. Most readers today dismiss the wisdom of anyone born five minutes before they were; but a critique of American society written by a prominent SF author and social critic at the height of World War II, and updated by him at the beginning of the Cold War, is relevant.