Aiding and Abetting A Novel

I have only read one Muriel Spark and already I think this woman is a treasure. Aiding and Abetting is a novel I thoroughly enjoyed, from the fraudulent stigmatic psychiatrist to the dual earls. I found myself genuinely rooting for the love story between Hildegard and Jean-Pierre. That being said, I was uninterested in the story of Lacy and her book-writing partner and found it detracted from the compelling tale of which Lord Lucian was which, and who was telling the truth. The ending was also a disappointment. Anyone who’s read or at least is familiar with Black Mischief (my least favorite Waugh) and A Handful of Dust would guess that the adventures of the earls would come to such an end, and I’m not really sure that that was the best way this book could have ended.