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This episode takes place six months after Sweet Poison. Lord Corinth has just returned from six months in NYC where he has been having an affair with Amy Pageant, daughter of Lord Weaver and newest Broadway star. He barely has time to take a bath when Verity Brown rushes in asking for his help to solve the murder of Godfrey Tilney by David Griffinths-Jones, former lover of Verity. Tilney is a former Eton schoolmate of Corinth's and like Verity and David, a member of the Communist party living in Madrid. So, once again off he goes with Verity to solve this murder, and, in the course of the novel, several others-all former classmates of Corinth. Bones of the Buried -the title- is taken from the lines of the Shakespearan play-Love's Labours Lost.

These novels so far are not without interest. Roberts primary aim seems to be to give the reader the historical-political and social-atmosphere of the times. While the mysteries are interesting sometimes I think Roberts tries to do too much in these stories. The mysteries are so interlayed a reader can get lost in trying to figure out what plotline belongs with what character. And Roberts tend to overdo creating characters-too many and far too incidental to the main theme. And I have to confess, I have to question what Roberts is trying to create with the character of Verity Browne. Yes she is suppose to be an independent female of the times but,frankly, if other characters did not tell the reader how "wonderful " she was-you would wonder what Corinth's fascination was with her. In the first two novels all she seems to to is use Edward for her own ambitious reasons, spends a lot of time verbally abusing him and the rest falling in bed with other characters to fine tune her sexual expertise. Not that Corinth is a sexual neophyte-he as a number of affairs as well-at least he appears to display a sense of some morality.

Although this one is better than the first the rating is still around a 6.

I just read recently that this series has been bought by Columbia , I guess, to make into a television series. Interestingly there are only ten of them and the writer says that is all there is going to be. We shall see.

In this episode Lord Corinth, who is still looking for his niche in life, besides being an idle playboy adventurer, is persuaded to accompany Lord Benyon, famous British economist, in the spring of 1937 to America where he is scheduled to give a series of lectures and to confirm, secretly, of course, with President Roosevelt about the upcoming war and American support for England. Naturally there are forces ( i.e. the Nazis) who do not want any American support against them so Benyon's life is in danger and by close proximty, so is Fank, the next Duke and nephew of Lord Corinth. Frank is involved,because after deserting school and escaping to fight in Spain and brought back by both Corinth and Verity, he is at loose ends. Lord Corinth gets him a job as a go-for for Lord Benyon to keep him occupied.

Of course Verity is on board-the ship is the Queen Mary to give a series of lectures concerning the Spanish Civil War as the result of her newly published book. Not a day goes by when one of Benyon's government supplied body guards from the Special Department is horribly murdered and ,once again, the game is afoot. Among the cast of characters is a very bigoted Southern senator( who soon finds himself the second murder victim) and his wife, a Jewish aeronautical scientist escaping Germany and his wife, a famous avant -garde painter, a famous black actor and singer and his white wife, an art dealer-lots of special agents and,of course, Corinth's faithful valet, Fenton. There is also a few supposed Roosevelt relatives on board as well.

This episode is a bit faster moving than its predecessors but, unfortunately, Verity is still a bit irritating. Corinth does propose and she does refuse-she is not the marrying kind-okay. But actually I thought it was a shade above the others so I will give it a low 7.