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An enjoyable mystery superbly written. The characters are lively and well drawn - with many quirks and oddities! Put these characters into an equally complex setting where the smallest details create atmosphere and builds a strong, visual stage and it becomes a much more complex and engaging mystery than many. Written in 1932 it is evocative of its time.

This weekend I need to read six books to catch up to my reading goal. I estimate that finishing some of my ongoing reads and reading a couple of new-to-me graphic novels will take ~8 hours this weekend. This is the first up: I find Ethel Lina White a bit too dramatic, and more so in this one even than in The Wheel Spins, but she does produce a heck of an atmosphere.

Finished this up in the middle of the night, when I woke up and couldn't go back to sleep. A seemingly perfect village is plagued by a series of poison pen letters, with leads to all sorts of distrust, unburied secrets, and death. Lots of unlikable characters to suspect! #cloakanddaggerchristmas Gamache prompt (takes place in a village).

A great poison-pen mystery from the 1950s, a quiet and serene village is rocked by the arrival of anonymous letters; neighbour turns on neighbour, suspicion is rife and for some life cannot continue. Can the culprit be found before someone else decides to take drastic action? Who knows what goes on behind the drawn blinds, in the mellow lamplight? #FabulousFebruaryReadathon

This quite forgotten book is marvelous!!! Written in the 50s provides a wonderful psychological insight for the time of a close community set in rural England. Very unexpected the final (and it is quite difficult to surprise me). Absolutely to read!