Review: Murder on the Ordinary Express

Em Thompson, Murder on the Ordinary Express, (Eccentric Directions 2025)

This extremely funny novel features Thompson’s unique writing style and innovative vocabulary tricks. He turns other parts of speech into other parts of speech: ‘uncountitude’, ‘pedantic plodology’, ‘bloodredded moments’, ‘freshenupped’, ‘fastidious pernickityness’, ‘alimonious divorce’. She is ‘highly umbraged to have her probity impugned’. Any clichéd metaphor or pun you might find in here will be cleverly turned on its head and done something even cleverer with.

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