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dmwhipp's review against another edition
3.0
A fairly good British mystery featuring detectives from Scotland Yard in the early part of the 20th century. However, the story suffers from an abundance of characters that I found hard to keep straight, with most of them lacking personalities. It was a bit like a turn of the century police procedural.
verityw's review against another edition
4.0
I picked this up for 99p from Amazon after seeing one of the later books in the series being promoted on Twitter. Regular readers of my reviews will know that I love Golden Age crime stories and am often looking for new options and forgotten authors to read. And this was a good buy. The story is intriguing - an estranged couple murdered on the same day and the inheritance of the husband's property turning on who died first - and the characters are good too. I did have my suspicions about the culprit from early on (and I was right) but that isn't hugely unusual for me either. If the others in this series are still 99p, I'll be trying some more of them!
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