The Green Frontier

Inspector Kentworthy #9

by John Buxton Hilton

First impression hardcover from Collins Crime Club Diamond Jubilee Collection in exceptional condition. Unread, originally bought by a non-reading collector of crime and science fiction. Dustjacket is pristine, unclipped and with no tears or blemishes.

Genres: Mystery

Hardcover

First published February 1, 1982

About the author

John Buxton Hilton was a British crime writer. After his war service in the army he became an Inspector of schools, before retiring in 1970 to take up full-time writing.

He wrote the Superintendent Simon Kenworthy series and the Inspector Thomas Brunt series, as well as the Inspector Mosley series under the pseudonym John Greenwood. Hilton died in Norwich.

Reviews

[Kate]

"When a pastor is caught breaking the Eighth Commandment, he asks that Kenworthy be put in charge. But it's only when the clergyman's corpse is found -- and the shop-lifting case becomes a murder case -- that the inspector steps in ... discovering a chain of deception and evildoing that goes all the way back to wartime. The war may be long over, but Kenworthy will have no peace until he finds the truth ...
~~back cover

This was a difficult book for me: not only is the plot written with the usual hints and allegations, but a good deal of it took place in occupied Germany after the Nazis were defeated -- a historical period that I know little about. And when the scene shifted to England 30 years on, I understood it all even less.

[Cindy]

This was hard to follow as the characters were not well defined. This is a series of books so maybe if I read somehting which was written earlier.