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Really enjoyable classic mystery - my first by this author. The ending was a bit of a stretch but enjoyed it nonetheless.

My final book of the #24in48 readathon! I liked this Golden Age mystery and thought the plot was very clever. It‘s interesting that the book focuses far more on the detectives than on the victim and suspects; I would have liked those characters to be a little more fleshed out. But a good read overall!

Turns out this was Bude‘s first book so I give it a bit of a pass on the weaknesses of the plot. But it‘s a fun golden age mystery not quite of the standard of the author‘s who get name-checked by the detective story mad vicar who stumbles across a murder in his parish.

A murder mystery to read this weekend

Even if I love the british library crime classics the German publisher #klett-cotta comes up the beautiful editions aswell. #boughtbecauseofitscover

Whee, I actually worked this out ahead of time... mostly by looking for a character who was mentioned enough to be suspicious ("this is set up for something") without actually being suspected. It's a fun enough book, good sense of place.

On the evidence so far, I'll probably pick up Bude's other books. It's an entertaining enough mystery with some quite good dialogue and scene-setting. I'll finish it before I carry on with my assignment, I think -- I'm very curious now about whodunit. But first a little more sleep...