The Man in the Moss-Colored Trousers

by Mary Bringle

A half-dozen kids of Gilligan's Crescent, a working-class street in the village of Balgriffin near Dublin, discover the body of a stranger in an abandoned race track. Kindly middle-aged detective Sean Lynch has his work cut for him in identifying both the corpse and the murderer.

180 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

Reviews

[Sully Augustine · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars out of 5 - I read a hardbound copy from the library after seeing a strong recommendation of another novel by the author which is not for some reason held by the local library. This book is a more than merely serviceable whodunnit which suffers from the author's inability to decide whether she was writing a juvenile ala The Hardy Boy series or a "woke" novel of protest against the evils of colonialism. Not quite good enough to motivate me to order Hacks At Lunch on Amazon.

[Linden · Rating 5 out of 5]

Set against the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland; a gripping, well-written mystery.