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A review by corvinaq
Death of a Ghost by Margery Allingham
1.0
Probably one of the worst, most dull and moronic mysteries I've ever read. Even the title makes no sense. From start to finish, the police procedural (?) is lame and plodding. It spends too much time on the most boring characters and none on the ones who might be mildly interesting. It's marketed as a cozy: instead, it's grim and humorless.
*SPOILERS*
The entire half of the book you know who did it: the murderer is a stereotypical flamboyant art dealer. He is annoying. The detective is a very stupid man who allows the villain to get him drunk and almost push him under a train. He is tedious. Why so much attention and fawning over Belle, the famous painter's widow? I kept thinking at the beginning that she had done it, but, no, she just appears to have a melodramatic showdown (words only) with the villain and then sigh about it all at the end.
The plot moves at a molasses pace and the dialogue is insipid. The motive is boring. If I could give it less than 1 star, I would.
*SPOILERS*
The entire half of the book you know who did it: the murderer is a stereotypical flamboyant art dealer. He is annoying. The detective is a very stupid man who allows the villain to get him drunk and almost push him under a train. He is tedious. Why so much attention and fawning over Belle, the famous painter's widow? I kept thinking at the beginning that she had done it, but, no, she just appears to have a melodramatic showdown (words only) with the villain and then sigh about it all at the end.
The plot moves at a molasses pace and the dialogue is insipid. The motive is boring. If I could give it less than 1 star, I would.