All the Queen's Men (Her Majesty the Queen Investigates, 3)

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Once again there is a large secondary cast of very dispensable and forgettable characters who make fleeting appearances and don’t make much of an impression.

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I enjoyed the throwaway a lines about real people (Camilla’s charitable work with abused women and her being hysterical in a good way! Het paleis gonst van speculatie en geroddel terwijl de zaak wordt onderzocht en de Queen is gefrustreerd omdat niet alle informatie direct met haar wordt gedeeld. Queen Elizabeth once again expertly guides her APS Rozie to investigate with the skills of a lifelong diplomat. J. Bennett’s web site where includes two interactive maps, one of Windsor Castle (for The Windsor Knot, book one) and one of Buckingham Palace (for All the Queen’s Men, book two). The Queen wants her painting back, and she asks her Assistant Private Secretary Rozie Oshodi - an attractive, ex-army, Anglo-Nigerian woman who's clever and discreet - to find out how the artwork came to be in the hands of the Royal Navy.There are three mysteries put forward: a painting of the Queen's that has gone missing and found in the Navy's offices; a nasty series of poison pen letters that are making work life in the palace tense and unhappy; and the death of a housekeeper which is deemed an accident. Great Britain has voted for Brexit, the United States is conducting a presidential election, Prince Harry has a new girlfriend, Prince Phillip is planning to retire from public service, and Buckingham Palace - which is falling apart - is in the midst of an extensive and costly renovation program. The intricacies of Palace life, the Queen and her relationship with her dogs, particularly when pondering a situation is a Three Dog problem.

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Yet despite all the wonderful, gossipy insights, I found this second in the series not quite as strong as the first. Rozie starts receiving the letters, too, ones that are racist and sexist, trying to get her to leave her job. When the police investigations start taking an unexpected turn, Elizabeth has to take things into her hands. She was certainly ahead of her time in what women were allowed to accomplish, and her story is as exceptional as her paintings.Ex-soldier Rozie, the Queen’s Assistant Private Secretary, is a great character and a force to be reckoned with. Whilst your initial impressions of a monarch might not include solving crimes; this reigning monarch has a wonderful array of sleuthing abilities! Later, he was killed, and the killer staged the scene since the murder happened at Windsor Castle where the royal family, Russian diplomats, and other high guests, both the MI5 and Metropolitan police, were to conduct the investigations. There's several things that make me stop from enjoying this as much as I did with Windsor Knot, and the worst part is that I can't exactly put my finger on what the problem is. The reference was also later borrowed by Julian Symons for the title of his book A Three-Pipe Problem (1975).

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Oh, there’s crime and murder and evil going on, but we know that the Queen, in her calm and methodical manner, will get to the bottom of it with her discreet, capable Assistant Private Secretary Rozie Oshodi. Queen Elizabeth II is preparing to celebrate her 90th birthday and is looking forward to all the festivities. En esta segunda aventura de su majestad como detective y con su ayudante Rozie siempre dispuesta a llevar a cabo las pesquisas que llamarían demasiado la atención de hacerlas una reina, nos encontramos una trama más compleja que la anterior, con hilos que tiran en muchas direcciones pero que parecen converger en un mismo lugar. And, of course, at the heart of the book is an ingenious mystery involving amongst other things an unexplained death, poison pen letters, Renaissance art, and some murky goings-on in the bowels of Buckingham Palace. Not only does the Queen have to deal with the unrest in her country due to Brexit, but the reservicing plan for Buckingham Palace, a major undertaking to fix the aging infrastructure, is about to be presented with its final budget estimate, and that has discrepancies, too.

This is light fun, a bit longer than “The Windsor Knot” and somewhat more convoluted but an enjoyable read. This little painting has significant personal meaning to the Queen, and tracing its path to the Royal Navy exhibition turns into a major investigation for the Queen and her sleuthing confidante, her assistant private secretary Rozie Oshodi. It is the 3 male advisors and a police officer who are drip fed the relevant information to make it appear as if it is they who solve the crimes, and we learn at the end just why that painting was so important to the Queen and Rozie inherits a painting that makes her joyously happy if slightly guilty. She is expecting Rozie Oshodi, her assistant Private Secretary to keep an eye on the activities in the palace and help solve any issue that may come up.