In this volume, Ashton-Kirk's Watson is a man of his own class named Pendleton, an unadventurous soul drawn unwillingly into adventure, rather like Poirot's Hastings.I find McIntyre's amateur detective curiously colourless. And yet I quite enjoyed the unfolding of this mystery, mostly for its bizarr...
This novel features a colourful sidekick for Ashton-Kirk: Bat Scanlon, fighter and gym owner. Scanlon is pretty obviously the brawn to A-K's brain.A "well-known clubman", Thomas Burton, estranged from his family, is found murdered at the home shared by his son and daughter. There is a glamorous actr...
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