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ssejig's review
3.0
Another one I heard about on the Classic Mysteries podcast. And it was a pretty good story. I hadn't read the rest of the series but didn't feel like I missed much.
Detective Sergeant Bobby Owen is visiting his fiancee's family friend, Miss Kayne. Her father had assembled one of the finest libraries in England and the care and keeping of it was left to her in her lifetime and then to go to her nephew if she had no male offspring. But this is a strange place. The library is dark, Miss Kayne claims to have committed the perfect murder, and there are dead bodies popping up everywhere.
It's not strictly in Bobby's district but he is asked to help solve the mystery. Is it the cranky librarian who doesn't want anyone to look too closely at the collection? Or maybe his tittering secretary? Or could it be Miss Kayne herself (though a large woman, she seems to be able to move quickly and quietly when she wants to)?
I enjoyed most of this book. Like many books of the time, the ending seems overly complicated and I followed about half of it.
Detective Sergeant Bobby Owen is visiting his fiancee's family friend, Miss Kayne. Her father had assembled one of the finest libraries in England and the care and keeping of it was left to her in her lifetime and then to go to her nephew if she had no male offspring. But this is a strange place. The library is dark, Miss Kayne claims to have committed the perfect murder, and there are dead bodies popping up everywhere.
It's not strictly in Bobby's district but he is asked to help solve the mystery. Is it the cranky librarian who doesn't want anyone to look too closely at the collection? Or maybe his tittering secretary? Or could it be Miss Kayne herself (though a large woman, she seems to be able to move quickly and quietly when she wants to)?
I enjoyed most of this book. Like many books of the time, the ending seems overly complicated and I followed about half of it.
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