Talk:Death and the Dancing Footman

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Needs work

I split out commentary from the Plot summary and moved it to a new Reception section. That new section does not hang together. It will benefit from contemporary reviews. The Plot summary fails to name the victim and the killer. Both are needed. I have not read this novel, so I cannot fill them in right now. - - Prairieplant (talk) 03:57, 30 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

About the plot summary, because another editor's just made changes to it, it might be worth quoting Wikipedia guidelines: "Wikipedia articles may include spoilers and no spoiler warnings... It is not acceptable to... delete information from (or hide it within) an article because you think it spoils the plot." WP:SW Per$1$tenceofv1$1on (talk) 23:08, 1 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Need more reviews

Another editor made mention of reviews in 2 British newspapers in the lead section, but provided no quotes or citations to those reviews. The Observer and The Tatler are the newspapers. Reviews were in 1941 or 1942. Can anyone find those reviews, and add to the Reception section with full citations?

A New Zealand source is also mentioned in the lead, which may be taken from the biography cited in the lead. The lead is not intended as the only source in the article. It is intended to highlight the article. - - Prairieplant (talk) 04:14, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There's a review in The Manchester Guardian (can't find one in The Observer). It's a bit mixed but concludes, "Miss Marsh shows again her literary skill and sense of character in her story of a cranky old man who amuses himself by observing among his friends social reactions which he did not expect to end in tragedy".^[1] I'll try to add it in the next few days. Per$1$tenceofv1$1on (talk) 16:55, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Added a couple of reviews - not sure the isolated sentence that's now the third para shouldn't be deleted, especially since it's a dead link. Per$1$tenceofv1$1on (talk) 16:58, 8 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ Punshon, E.R. (27 January 1942). "New Detective Novels". Manchester Guardian. p. 3.

[1] Punshon, E.R. (27 January 1942). "New Detective Novels". Manchester Guardian. p. 3.

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