In the Crypt with a Candlestick

Critics Review

• Fans of PG Wodehouse and Agatha Christie should bag this madcap comedy whodunnit . . . Outrageous and over-the-top, a perfect antidote to all real-life craziness going on

  Daily Mail

• It’s sharp, funny and just the right amount of farcical – the best sort of murder mystery

  Tatler

• I couldn’t put it down

  Santa Montefiore

• What a triumph! It gave me enormous pleasure to read, plus of course a few appropriate shudders. [In the Crypt] lightens the darkness in a way that is both dark and light

  Antonia Fraser

• An irresistible champagne bubble of pleasure and laughter

  Rachel Johnson

• Agatha Christie but with a bit of Julian Fellowes’s Snobs and Downtown Abbey thrown in . . . A masterclass in how to write a rollicking good read

  Sarah Vine

• A jolly farce that never takes itself too seriously

  Red Magazine

• Fizzles, crackles and sparkles

• An irresistible, high-camp crime caper – deliciously entertaining

• A perfect antidote to wintry gloom

  The Literary Review

• An effervescent madcap whodunnit

  Metro

• A country-house murder mystery with nods to Agatha Christie and Evelyn Waugh. From the deceased’s name (Sir Ecgbert Tode of Tode Hall) to the art deco cover, it’s a delightful treat

  The Lady

• A work of sublime silliness. The knife-edge between crime and comedy is a tricky one, but Daisy Waugh negotiates it magnificently. The story is preposterous, as it should be in a book of this kind, and the author is clearly less interested in the finer points of crime plotting than she is in sharp observations and social satire. The result is a delightful book, witty, pacy and beautifully written.

• This is a marvellous rollicking read with brilliantly drawn characters. I finished it within 24 hours

  Mary Killen

• She’s spot on; she’s skewered her targets brilliantly

  Imogen Edwards-Jones

• One imagines that Waugh had nearly as much fun writing it as we do reading it

  Catholic Herald

• This whodunnit, set in a twisted version of PG Wodehouse’s terrain, is deeply funny

  Morning Star