"It's total fluff and a total delight with a clever plot twist about every 50 pages. Definitely light summer reading, part romance, part mystery, part something else as well. It's how you wished things could have turned out for Edith Wharton's characters if she were not such a realist and so down on New York's upper crust (of which she was, of course, a part)."

On August 21, Dan wrote the following amendment to his first words on Gramercy Park:

"Whoops, I take back what I said about Grammercy Park. Well, I still like the first part, but then it degenerates into cliche-ridden conventionality that I found irritating and boring.

My error is that I had reverted to my undergraduate practice of reviewing and evaluating a book after reading only a small part of it. I finally got caught. It's a lesson one should have learned by my age: that a book, like a life or a symphony, cannot fairly be judged until it is over."

• Jam!'s review of Gramercy Park
• Jane Davis' review of Gramercy Park at theMysteryreader.com