It's not your fault at all - I think I expected it to be a little bit racist like her books with Maori characters are a little bit racist, and it turned out to have more discussion of Racial Essences than I expected. On the other hand, it turns some of that on the head at the end - it turns out that The Boomer was using this Racial Essence business to give Alleyn a bit of a runaround, which leaves Alleyn nonplussed.

And I did like the Boomer a lot. I think if they ever did a proper TV series of Ngaio Marsh mysteries, a good actor could make a lot out of him, and it would defuse some of the more racist bits.

I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around the fact that Brexit actually is happening. It's like I'm living in a bad AU version of our world.