The first in a very long series of amiable detective murder mysteries, in the tradition of Agatha Christie. There’s a murder, local plods jump to the obvious conclusion, our hero steers patiently things in the right direction, the villain is apprehended and all is well with the world. There are some...
The strongest of these I've read so far. Still not in re-read territory, but I kept being drawn back to the story, wanting to see how it ended, even though I'd guessed at the answer to the mystery.
There's an author foreword to this book pointing out that this isn't a story about figuring out who did it (because that's clear early on) but about proving he did it. And that's entirely true.Quite a mellow book, ambling along much like its peppermint-scoffing detective. I'll check out the next, ...
This is the eighth in the series of relaxed murder mysteries about genial detective George Gently, written in the later fifties and early sixties. I've enjoyed my previous forays into the series, as much for the authentic slices of post-war British life as for the murders themselves, which were alwa...
This was a pretty good collection. Too bad I put it down more than a year ago, and I don't remember the stories I read back then well enough to write a competent review. I don't really want to spend the time to reread the first half, so this review is going to be pretty sketchy. My apologies for t...
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