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His Majesty s Hope, A Maggie Hope Mystery, by Susan MacNeal (Random House Books, 2013, $16 [PB], 354 pages)
Almost too exciting to read at night,
His Majesty s Hope, is the third in a series of 10 historical sort-of mysteries but more like spy stories. We read it faster and faster! On the other hand, some of the just-in-time escapes seem too quick and easy to be true, and glossed over.
Hope has everything - a modern multilingual woman, some history, some opera and literature, some math, some code breaking, Bletchley Park, a couple of love interests, and a lot of Nazis - even references to Alan Turing (in person), Schroedinger s cat, and the