The Tattooed Lady with the following comments added by our chief reader:
1).
Dan Fortune, the corrupt detective inspector, is not a believable character, particularly on page 43, where we are asked to picture him alighting from his personal helicopter on top of the Guggenheim Museum in New York with Lord Lucan, yet only two paragraphs later he is in Kabul hocking a stolen Toulouse Lautrec painting in order to buy opium.
2).
Dame Horsedrone-Milquefloat, the “lady” of the title, is clearly established as a member of the upper aristocracy, yet iat the beginning of chapter 3 we are asked to picture her playing darts. The reader’s suspension of disbelief is further tested when she suggests to the chief murder suspect