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Coffin, Scarcely Used (Flaxborough, #1)

Colin Watson

Start date: December 14, 2018

Finish date: January 5, 2018

Discussion: Buddy reads

Why we're reading this: Some members wanted to try this series, so we're having a buddy read of the first book.…more
[close] Some members wanted to try this series, so we're having a buddy read of the first book.

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Jan 04, 2022 Calum Fisher rated it it was ok · review of another edition

The great critic Julian Symons loved Colin Watson, in fact considered him just about the only consistently brilliant practitioner of the comic crime story. A funny murder mystery is about as near my ideal light reading as its possible to get, so my hopes were high. The setup/blurb sounds rich with comic possibilities, but this was a pretty huge disappointment. It mostly functions as a competent police procedural, albeit a stodgy and langorous one - but where were the jokes? There's a few chuckle ...more

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Jun 22, 2018 Andréa rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: arc, netgalley-edelweiss, digital, mystery-thriller-crime, classics, british-isles

Note: I received a digital review copy from the publisher through NetGalley.

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Mar 18, 2021 Laura Hannaway rated it liked it · review of another edition

It was ok, the story meandered quite a bit which I didn’t really like.

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Nov 17, 2018 Jill rated it liked it

Shelves: colin-watson

Found this to be rather slow and wordy. Plot was good but took ages of repetition. I would read another by this author but wouldn't be in a hurry. ...more

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