Tenant for Death
Cyril Hare,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by HarperCollins Publishers
Cyril Hare,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by HarperCollins Publishers
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780060805708 (0060805706)
Publish date: 1982
Publisher: Harper & Row
Pages no: 206
Edition language: English
Series: Inspector Mallett (#1)
A mixed bag, with the good outweighing the bad, but the weirdness was still noticeable enough to pull me out at times. On one hand, I really enjoyed the prose, the banter between Mallett and Frant, the satirical edge in the characterisation, the mystery is solid and how in the end things are wrapp...
Well, it turns out RL kept me busy for much longer yesterday than I'd anticipated, so I really only got back to this book today. That said, I truly enjoyed it -- even the fact that the murderer turned out to be the most obvious suspect, in the end, didn't bother me half as much as it had in An Eng...
Inspector Mallett #1 This one got off to a slow start, but that might have been a caffeine deficit. I found myself sticking with it after I got to the halfway point so it has that for it. Overall I think I'd call it a decent mystery although not overwhelming? It makes reasonable use of coincidence...
This was a bit sparse, but I still didn't figure it out. I got part of it right - and I wonder at how long it took Inspector Mallett to realize what seemed to be fairly obvious. I liked Mallett and would definitely read another book in his series. I do feel like the book was somehow lacking in so...
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