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Murder on a Mystery Tour (1985)

af Marian Babson

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They had explored every avenue, and it seemed that murder was their only salvation. Reggie and Midge, genteel husband and wife who live in what was the family's more or less stately home, are now the reluctant managers of Chortlesby Manor Hotel, an English country inn of no particular distinction. But even this transformation will not solve their financial problems. The possibility of succor comes instead in a transatlantic phone call from Midge's old classmate, Victoria, who is arranging "mystery tours" of the English countryside for American visitors and wants to use Chortlesby Manor as one of the locales of her staged murders. From the beginning, the mystery tour project is heading for disaster. Dissension, complaints, and shows of temperament abound. These are upstaged, however, by a snowstorm of paralyzing amplitude, which in turn is upstaged when a real murder takes front and center. As a killer stalks this group of amateur sleuths on holiday, solving murders is no longer fun and games. Too many guests are checking out early from this eerie old English mansion. They're not settling their bills-or leaving enough useful clues.… (mere)
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Published in the 1980s, Murder On A Mystery Tour by Marian Babson pays homage to The Golden Age of mystery novels written during the 1920s and 1930s. (Agatha Christie was part of that group, however Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series predates that style of writing.)

In this instance, we find couple Reggie and Midge trying to find a way to financially save their English manor, which is currently being used as a hotel. Just in the knick of time, they receive a call from an old friend in the publishing business, who is looking for a place to rent out to stage some promotional murder mystery tours. Babson deftly launches the reader into the rather complicated story, which is actually a mystery within a mystery.

My main quibble with the story was the sheer number of people to keep track of, as there are the actual characters and also the roles they assume for the murder mystery weekend. It does become confusing or at least it was for me. The one character I could always keep straight was Ackroyd the cat, who stares disapprovingly at certain guests and always knows when a there might be a treat available. Bravo Ackroyd. ;-)

Overall rating: 3.5 stars
First book completed in 2024 ( )
  Ann_R | Jan 5, 2024 |
When Reggie and Midge, the reluctant managers of an English country inn agree to host a mystery tour, they are in for a surprise of a most unpleasant nature as events turn a staged murder into the real thing.

This was a light, lively story and sometimes humorous with a lot of characters to keep track of. I enjoy this author’s writing style but the story was just somewhat interesting. ( )
  gaylebutz | Dec 9, 2022 |
Important to realize this was published pre-Internet, pre-cell phones. ( )
  fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |
A friend sent me this mystery. As far as I remember, this is the first time I have read this author.

The cover of my copy had a snowman with a flowing scarf--other than it being winter, that scene doesn't seem to relate at all to the book.

A struggling British hotel agrees to host an interactive murder mystery for an American tour group. There were lots of characters and each character also had a character they were playing in the murder mystery. There were times it was hard for me to remember who was who and who was playing who.

Some of the murders are "fake" murders in the sense that they're part of the script and the real person stays hidden in the off limits areas of the hotel out of sight of the guests. But other murders are real (and may have thrown off the scripted portion of the weekend). I don't know if we had enough clues to truly solve the scripted mystery--I wonder if some of that had to do with the ad libbing that happened with the real murders also occurring, but I can't be sure. Then again, I usually don't guess whodunit until it's revealed. I am pretty sure we didn't have enough clues to know who committed the real murders. ( )
  JenniferRobb | Jan 29, 2022 |
family-dynamics, farce, friendship, actors, murder, British-crime-classics, British-humor, England, Innkeeping*****

This fun book is a farce originally published in 1985 and enhanced by the British drollery of Steven Crossley. First the names are to gran about as they are usually parts of major author's names. Then there is the behavior of most of them (including the cat). The publisher's blurb is a pretty good hook about the plot, but it's the laughs that got me! Loved it! Snickered or laughed maniacally throughout the whole thing! ( )
  jetangen4571 | Dec 23, 2020 |
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Dedicated to: Ruth Windfeldt and her Scene of the Crime Tours; Maggie Brewer and her I Love A Mystery Tours; Nancy Wynne and Shirley Beaird and their Murder By The Book Tours; Phyllis Brown and her Grounds For Murder Tours; Dilys Winn and her Murder Ink Tours; Chapter House Travel and their Rendezvous With Murder Tours; Joy Swift and her Murder Weekends Limited; Charlotte MacLeod--with much thanks for her help; and all aficionados everywhere.
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They had explored every avenue, and it seemed that murder was their only salvation. Reggie and Midge, genteel husband and wife who live in what was the family's more or less stately home, are now the reluctant managers of Chortlesby Manor Hotel, an English country inn of no particular distinction. But even this transformation will not solve their financial problems. The possibility of succor comes instead in a transatlantic phone call from Midge's old classmate, Victoria, who is arranging "mystery tours" of the English countryside for American visitors and wants to use Chortlesby Manor as one of the locales of her staged murders. From the beginning, the mystery tour project is heading for disaster. Dissension, complaints, and shows of temperament abound. These are upstaged, however, by a snowstorm of paralyzing amplitude, which in turn is upstaged when a real murder takes front and center. As a killer stalks this group of amateur sleuths on holiday, solving murders is no longer fun and games. Too many guests are checking out early from this eerie old English mansion. They're not settling their bills-or leaving enough useful clues.

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