Bodies in a Bookshop
by:
R.T. Campbell (author)
When a couple of corpses turn up in the back room of a London bookshop, an oddball trio of investigators strive to solve the crime and avoid tripping over each other's odd personalities. This exuberant and hard-to-find mystery from the 1940s is loaded with droll characters and crisp dialogue that...
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When a couple of corpses turn up in the back room of a London bookshop, an oddball trio of investigators strive to solve the crime and avoid tripping over each other's odd personalities. This exuberant and hard-to-find mystery from the 1940s is loaded with droll characters and crisp dialogue that will captivate armchair detectives and bibliophiles alike.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486784434 (0486784436)
Publish date: 2018-06-13
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 160
Edition language: English
A re-issue of a 1940's mystery written by Ruthven Todd; I have to say that in general, I did not like this book. It probably deserves 2.5 stars but the bookshop setting and plot surrounding books keeps me from doing it. This is an instance when I know I'm being too kind though, because the writing...