Reviews for The White Company

The average rating for The White Company based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-02-18 00:00:00 Marc Dellaire This, 26th Roderick Alleyn mystery, was published in 1970. It involves Alleyn going undercover in Rome, taking part in an assorted tour group, run by Sebastian Mailer. Mr Mailer is an extremely unpleasant man, as are, to be honest, the majority of the tourists. However, as in many such crime books, there is a lot more going on beneath the surface than first appears. This novel deals with drugs, blackmail and various secrets which all of those involved are hiding. Overall, this has an interesting setting, but I was a little under-whelmed by the ending. However, I was enthused to have Fox - on telephone, rather than in person, admittedly - use the word 'groovy'!

Review # 2 was written on 2021-02-08 00:00:00 Tatsuya Hiratsuka This counts as the 29th Alleyn book I have read out of the 33 total ?{I think}. I really enjoyed most of them, but there were several I did not care for at all. This was from 1970 and includes banter and sayings or expressions that I would think belonged in the 20's. "Negresses"? Oh well. Yeah, not my favorite book but I own it. Amazon owns Goodreads and thus owns my reading list and sends me emails selling a book at a one-day special price consisting of those I have not yet read. Do I no longer have freedom of choice? Hmm. Maybe they really do not have an algorithm that behaves in that way. This book gives you some of Rome, a gathering of weirdos on holiday, a manipulative blackmailing crook and then we have Alleyn joining the tourist group hiding his identity. The Church of San Clemente in Rome was used as a model by Marsh as the setting for murder in what she called "San Tommaso in Pallaria in this book. I believe the word Etruscan is mentioned 21 times in the book. If you know Rome and like playing guessing games you may enjoy the book more than I did. Alleyn's wife does not appear in this book but for letter he writes to her. I like the books that have them both present far more.