House party

[sartorias]

Jennifer Stevenson on the house party farce. These are so much fun to read when they work!

I think my favorite is by Wodehouse, one of the many house party comedies of manners involving Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. My usual inability to remember titles gets whacked especial with these. I think it might be Right Ho, Jeeves, but it contains my

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To Say Nothing of the Dog!

[anonymous]

Connie Willis. She writes some of the best screwball stuff I've ever read and manages to work in time travel and good history. Fabulous.

Re: To Say Nothing of the Dog!

[sartorias]

She does indeed! I don't know if I'd call what I've read house party books, but even so.

[auriaephiala]

_Touchstone_ is one of my absolute favourite books by Laurie King (the period, the politics, the characters, the writing). Partway through includes a house party which is NOT farcical but instead nail-biting.

[sartorias]

Oh, that sounds interesting! Thanks.

[anna_wing]

Georgette Heyer's "Envious Casca" has a house-party.

Here is a web-site with a list:

http://gadetection.pbworks.com/w/page/7930261/Country-house%20mysteries

[sartorias]

Thanks!

[saare_snowqueen]

Sorry to go off tangent this way, but I have been trying to find a link to the series about writing horses that ran in BVC a year or so age. Was it by Judith Tarr? and do you have a link for it - thank you.

[sartorias]

Here you go!

[marykaykare]

the Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cozy by James Anderson leapt immediately to mind. When I looked it up in iBooks to double check the author's name, I discovered he has written others. Will have to look into this. I have very find memories of that book. And I have no idea where I ran across it ...
MKK

[sartorias]

ooooh, thank you!