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Well I deducted the wrong person for the murder. A barrister called Watchman goes to a town in Devon with his cousin Parish and friend Cubitt. He has a collision with his car with a lodger at the pub he is staying in called Robert Legge.
Watchman while playing darts suddenly dies. Rat poison, everyone except the publican had a motive. The village is very atmospheric with the coastal landscape the beautiful Decima, eccentric Miss Darragh, Wil the landlords son and Legge the dodgy treasurer with s ...more
Watchman while playing darts suddenly dies. Rat poison, everyone except the publican had a motive. The village is very atmospheric with the coastal landscape the beautiful Decima, eccentric Miss Darragh, Wil the landlords son and Legge the dodgy treasurer with s ...more
The work is best scored at 3.5, neither the best of Ngaio Marsh nor her worst. It was actually somewhere in between. The novel is certainly a good whodunit , kept the reader engaged till the end and did succeed in being a complete entertainer. But still I feel that she had offered a lot better in her past works. As a matter of fact I had my hopes high because I expected her work to mature more with time.I was looking forward to better narrative and more finery. The book is nevertheless a good re
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Excellent story! For the first time in ages I totally failed to guess who the culprit was although in hindsight all the clues were there! Thoroughly enjoyable!
For some reason this book seemed overly long. Setting was fine,but characters were not that alive to me. Not one of the best in the series for me.
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