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What mysteries are you reading at the moment? (2023)
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Richard Tindall has disappeared. He is normally extremely reliable and informs everyone who needs to know of his whereabouts. His car has been returned to his garage with the keys in it but the man himself is not in it and his bed has not been slept in. His daughter is worried and the police are informed. They are not too concerned at first as there is no indication of foul play. Then workmen installing central heating in a village church find their access blocked to the tower by a heap of broke
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A reprint from Rue Morgue press. I've read several of her titles and have enjoyed all of them. If you like small British towns with quirky characters, this author is a good choice. Well written and an easy beach read.
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Jul 30, 2022
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3.5 stars bumped up to 4 because of the diabolical murder method. And Derek Perkins’s excellent narration.
Oh dear! This installment (#5 in the series) finds our dear friend Detective Inspector Sloan and his trusty sidekick Crosby looking into the strangest murder. It seems that a man was killed when a rather large and heavy marble statue falls on him, but the debris took up so much room that it blocked all exits into the room. However, only the dead body is found there. This one's a fun "locked room" typed mystery with a unique solution.
Again, a pretty average entry in the British mystery genre; if ...more
Again, a pretty average entry in the British mystery genre; if ...more
The owner of a successful company has gone missing. He has always been a very reliable person, so his disappearance is very out of character. Not only is he missing, but an important file from his company, can also not be found. His daughter finds that his bed is empty and does look like it has not been slept in, but his car is in the garage. After searching everywhere for him, she phones the police to report his disappearance, but as he is a adult and only been missing overnight, they tend to n
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3.5 stars for this enjoyable entry in Catherine Aird’s traditional police procedural series, which reads like a Golden Age series, but this one was written in 1973.
This case opens with a young woman reporting her industrialist father missing. The man’s car is in their garage, but his bed has not been slept in. Meanwhile, a crew doing renovations on a church has found a man crushed underneath a fall of rubble in a church tower. When the rubble is shifted, Richard Tindall, the missing industriali ...more
This case opens with a young woman reporting her industrialist father missing. The man’s car is in their garage, but his bed has not been slept in. Meanwhile, a crew doing renovations on a church has found a man crushed underneath a fall of rubble in a church tower. When the rubble is shifted, Richard Tindall, the missing industriali ...more
Richard Mallory Tindall is the Company Director and owner of Smithers and Tindall, Precision, Investigation and Development Engineers. Widowed, his daughter Fenella has returned from her job teaching English to a wealthy Italian family, to care for him. However, one morning, she finds that he has not returned home. His car is in the garage, but he is later found crushed to death in a church tower. What was he doing there and who was he meeting? Meanwhile, there are odd occurences - a file has go
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I liked it.
A daughter has recently returned from a sojourn in Italy. The housekeeper asks her whether her father got an early start to the day. Turns out his bed wasn't slept in. But his car is in the garage but it doesn't appear that he put it there. There are fresh paint scratches. Sloan and Crosby are called in on the job. A statue has tumbled over and a body is found underneath it. Later a man is found shot to death in the parking lot of the local diner.
There are several suspects, some of ...more
A daughter has recently returned from a sojourn in Italy. The housekeeper asks her whether her father got an early start to the day. Turns out his bed wasn't slept in. But his car is in the garage but it doesn't appear that he put it there. There are fresh paint scratches. Sloan and Crosby are called in on the job. A statue has tumbled over and a body is found underneath it. Later a man is found shot to death in the parking lot of the local diner.
There are several suspects, some of ...more
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