Reading in Reykjavík

I am now reading The Classic Era of Crime Fiction by Peter Haining, and wow!, is there ever an error on page 114, in the discussion on the "Big Four" female detective writers of the Golden Era. He discusses Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, and then turns his attention to Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh, saying about Marsh: "...and Ngaio Marsh (1895-1982) whose 1940 book, Surfeit of Lampreys , featuring aristocratic investigator Lord Charles Lamprey..." This begs the question: How many errors have I not spotted?

Tsk, tsk! Blue eyes on page 87 and brown on page 125? I had expected better from someone of your exactness in all matters historically correct. For that matter, I would have expected better proof-reading. Please, someone tell me that this was not Heyer's mistake, but a dreadful proofing error and that it's one colour or the other all the way through the first edition.

And deep, deep under the streets of the city, in the cool, quiet dark, the diamonds waited to shine again. Nora Roberts/J.D. Robb: Remember When Thus ends a very satisfying read. I would like to mention two errors that I found very entertaining. They could be the author's or could have crept in at any stage during the editing or proofing. Both are entertaining in their way, and both made me stop, go back, and smile. One is goofy: the names of the hero and the heroine's dog get mixed up at one point. The dog has a human name and the man a rather common dog name, so it's an understandable error. The other is, well, funny because it changes the meaning of what is being said: the misguided criminal thinks about himself as being "...entirely too young and vi r al to need glasses."