Murder on the Thirteenth

Albert J Tretheway #2

by A.E. Eddenden

Once again murder and other dark doings strike the small city of Fort York, Canada, during World War II and Inspector Albert V. Trethewaynow Regional Officer, Air Raid Precautionis the one man who can solve the mystery. It all begins on January 13th, 1943 when Fort York is in the midst of its most complete wartime blackout. Suddenly there are reports of an eerie flumelike light in the marsh outside the town. Tretheway finds evidence of weird practices that his friend Cynthia Moon identifies as the work of a coven of witches. This is a fitting sequelat once hilarious and bloodchillingto the first Tretheway mystery, A Good Year for Murder .

Genres: Mystery, Historical Mystery

166 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1992

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sgt. Tretheway is in charge of air raid precautions in Fort York, Canada. When someone spies lights on the marsh during a surprise blackout test, he investigates and finds a fire burning on a little island. Strange that it should happen on the 13th...Then other incidents mar other 13ths during that exciting year of 1943, and Tretheway sees a pattern forming, a pattern that culminates in murder. But he knows that the murderer is not through with a grand design, somehow linked to the year 1692.

[Sean · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good quick read but growing up in Hamilton I am confused that the writer references everything being in Fork York but they are all places in Hamilton. I guess to broaden his audience but really does it matter where the city is?

[Avaladez1 · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a very long "nail bitting" story about a mystery murder in the city of New York. It was a very dark and foggy night night in 1943, the city was practicing a bombardment drill. In doing so every single bright light had to be turned off. This gave one suspicious man the chance to go on a killing spree.
The reason I chose this book is because it sounded very familiar in title. Almost like a movie I had seen befor. When I opened the book and read chapter one I was expecting the famous mass murderer "Jason Voorhees" to appear in the words. But it turned out it was just some random physco dude.