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I've read this several times over the years. One of my favorites of the Lord Peter Wimsey series.
I have always remembered how Harriet Vane finds the victim on her walking tour. Someone coming across a body on a rock/boulder on the beach with a sliced throat is kind of memorable. But I apparently totally forgot about the ending.
This was probably my third or fourth (maybe more) reading. ...more
I have always remembered how Harriet Vane finds the victim on her walking tour. Someone coming across a body on a rock/boulder on the beach with a sliced throat is kind of memorable. But I apparently totally forgot about the ending.
This was probably my third or fourth (maybe more) reading. ...more
HArriet Vane is on a walking holiday on the south coast, and discovers a body on the beach. THe police think it's suicide, but Harriet does not agree. NAturally she contacts her friend Lord Peter Wimsey to help her prove it is murder.
I quite enjoyed this one at first, but it is far too long and I had lost interest long before the end. the murder method is insanely complicated and I kept thinking that surely there must have been an easier way of doing it? Moreover, there seemed to me an obvious ...more
I quite enjoyed this one at first, but it is far too long and I had lost interest long before the end. the murder method is insanely complicated and I kept thinking that surely there must have been an easier way of doing it? Moreover, there seemed to me an obvious ...more
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