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The American Boy (An Unpardonable Crime) - Andrew Taylor |
 | | Taylor weaves a fine story out of it all: this is much like one of those 19th-century novels, crammed with detail and action and complicated family, financial, and legal affairs, enjoyably layered and then neatly undone. |
 | | Taylor is particularly good at presenting the class differences and issues: Shield is hardly taken seriously by Frant or Carswell, seen (if he is seen at all) as barely more than a servant (albeit an occasionally useful one). |
 | | Moving between poor, inner London, the city residences of the wealthy, and the countryside Taylor also offers a rich, convincing picture of the England of that time; some of his best details are in the atmospheric evocations of these scenes (and some of the characters that populate these divergent worlds). |
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