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The Crime at the Noah's Ark

Molly Thynne

Start date: December 1, 2017

Finish date: December 31, 2017

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Dec 03, 2017 Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: christmassy, mystery-murder-crime-20th-century

4.5★

Although it was set at Christmastime, there is nothing very Christmassy about this Golden Age murder mystery!

A varied group of individuals are forced to seek shelter at a remote inn. Crimes are committed & Doctor Constantine, an elderly chess enthusiast turns out to be a gifted sleuth! There is no mention of "little grey cells", but Dr Constantine does indeed employ them.

I enjoyed this tale very much & am very happy to have found a new-to-me Golden Age writer! The Dean St Press edition has a ...more

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Dec 03, 2017 Marcus Vinicius rated it really liked it · review of another edition

A group of people meet in a hotel, the Noah’s Ark, by chance and necessity. The roads are closed by a severe snowstorm and they cannot pursue theirs originals plans. Gather in this place, they had no choice instead of spend time together. Different persons with different backgrounds in the early 20th century England lived with one another and had to copy with an unexpected theft and a murder. This Golden Age Mystery by Molly Thynne is readable and interesting. The author developed some of the ch ...more

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Dec 28, 2017 Doris rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: z-2017-new, mystery, z-2017-challenge

This Christmas setting is pretty well incidental to this: it functions only to give all these people an excuse for being out on the road in a late-December storm.
The 4 stars are generous: 3 1/2 would be closer to the mark. Entertaining, with well-drawn characters, but the mystery itself is a bit of a cheat: too much information is withheld from the reader. And the ending is far too drawn out: we know whodunnit by about the 75% mark, and the rest of the book is just explanation and other characte ...more

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