![]() Its biggest failing is that it can't be solved by looking through the fourth wall. The writing is pleasant enough, and would transfer admirably to Sunday evening TV.ĭoes it work as a mystery? I think so. The Cornish coastal village is decorative, a few of the cast still have shellshock from the trenches, a wartime souvenir revolver plays a part, cars are as yet unreliable and someone manages to escape from rural Cornwall by a late evening train. ![]() A couple of local ne'er do wells (some of whom even wear Muddy Boots indoors, so are clearly wrong'uns) are lined up as red herrings. The chief suspects are too middle class and just too nice to be guilty, so they're soon dismissed. As ever, the local police are by turns baffled, afraid of The Yard getting involved, but happy to let the local vicar run around the crime scene. Apparently hard to find before this reprint series. ![]()
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