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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Ben Aaronovitch "The Masquerades of Spring"
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 10:25:36 -0800
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In article <vgnr38$3qmno$1@dont-email.me>,
 BillGill <tonisdad215@gmail.com> wrote:

> I just got my copy of the latest Rivers of London
> novella.  This one isn't, strictly speaking, a
> Rivers of London.  The book steps well back in
> time into the 1920s.  Nightingale travels to
> New York City to trace the source of a magic
> saxophone. Here he meets the world of Harlem
> and Jazz.  He doesn't meet any of the river gods
> of New York. I don't think that the book is quite
> up to the standard of Aaronovitch's earlier works,
> but it is a fairly good read in any case.
> 

IMHO, this was also a P. G. Wodehouse pastiche. A lot of the charm of 
the Rivers of London series is Peter Grant's snark. Gussie, being a 
literary relative of Wodehouse's dim viewpoint characters, is snark 
deficient.

> Note:  My copy of the book is a collectable.  It
> is signed and numbered.  I didn't realize that
> until I got it.

IIRC, the entire print run was signed and ones that weren't numbered 
were lettered (those were more expensive).

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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Robert Woodward robertaw@drizzle.com