Hand In Glove
Who had a hand in the murder of a country gent? All manner of friction fills the English country house shared by genteel retiree Percival Pyke Period and fuddy-duddy lawyer Harry Cartell. Until one of them, after a flamboyant dowager's treasure hunt party, is found murdered-face down in the mire...
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Who had a hand in the murder of a country gent?
All manner of friction fills the English country house shared by genteel retiree Percival Pyke Period and fuddy-duddy lawyer Harry Cartell. Until one of them, after a flamboyant dowager's treasure hunt party, is found murdered-face down in the mire of an open drain. Which of Superintendent Roderick Alleyn's suspects-linked by a tangled set of relationships-wore a crucial, missing pair of gloves to commit this dirty deed?
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Format: hardcover
Publish date: 1962
Publisher: Collins Crime Club
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Series: Roderick Alleyn (#22)
bookshelves: fraudio, spring-2010, mystery-thriller, published-1962 Read on March 13, 2010 ** spoiler alert ** [Book 22, 1962:] blurb - The April Fool’s Day had been a roaring success for all, it seemed – except for poor Mr Cartell who had ended up in the ditch – for ever. Then there was the cas...
A solid, well-built mystery. Marsh has a knack of making me feel sorry for her murderers, even if they're not necessarily very likeable people.
[Book 22, 1962:] blurb - The April Fool’s Day had been a roaring success for all, it seemed – except for poor Mr Cartell who had ended up in the ditch – for ever. Then there was the case of Mr Percival Pyke Period’s letter of condolence, sent before the body was found – not to mention the family squ...
I'll have to reread this, as all I can remember is the letters of condolence (which were a riot!).
[These notes were made in 1985:]. A domestic melodrama this time, with an eccentric snob called Mr Pyke Period, his lodger who appears to die accidentally in an open ditch, and a series of complicated relations & near-relations. There is the obligatory cooing young couple whom no-one really suspect...
35 years ago
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