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Baron #8
Call for the Baron
Book by Morton, Anthony
176 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1940
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April 26, 2023
Having long been a John Creasey fan, I grabbed this hard-cover book when it was offered to me. Unfortunately, I found it a bit disappointing.
Originally published in 1940, it had the war as a setting, and as part of the plot.
But it was apparently rather thrown together with lots of characters floating in and out of a country-house gathering.
One of the gatherers is a family relation who is also connected to Britain's diplomatic corps, and another is a very rich and very non-discrete woman who shows no common sense about her famous jewelry collection.
"The Baron" of the title is one of those English jewel thieves, but a reformed one who might have changed but who is still wanted by the police.
How he finds the real villains and how close he comes to being blamed for the nefarious deeds is the story, and might be more entertaining to a reader who has followed The Baron in the previous seven entries.
Originally published in 1940, it had the war as a setting, and as part of the plot.
But it was apparently rather thrown together with lots of characters floating in and out of a country-house gathering.
One of the gatherers is a family relation who is also connected to Britain's diplomatic corps, and another is a very rich and very non-discrete woman who shows no common sense about her famous jewelry collection.
"The Baron" of the title is one of those English jewel thieves, but a reformed one who might have changed but who is still wanted by the police.
How he finds the real villains and how close he comes to being blamed for the nefarious deeds is the story, and might be more entertaining to a reader who has followed The Baron in the previous seven entries.
July 1, 2014
creasey's baron
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