I swear, this book has one of the most amazing hooks I have ever read in a crime novel.I am going to kill a man. I don't know his name, I don't know where he lives, I have no idea what he looks like. But I am going to find him and kill him...(Yes, nowadays it sounds like something Liam Neeson wou...
The faculty and student body at Sudeley are shocked but scarcely saddened when the headmaster’s obnoxious nephew, Algernon Wyvern-Wemyss, is found dead in a haystack on Sports Day. But when the young English master, Michael Evans, becomes a suspect in the case, he’s greatly relieved when his clev...
I gave the first book in this series four stars, and I think this one is substantially better, so I guess I have to give it five. Written in 1936, and the second in the series of Nigel Strangeways mysteries by C. Day-Lewis. Very, very reminiscent of the later Peter Wimsey novels (in fact one of t...
I tried to put up my hands and contain it or let it out: but my hands would not move. Somewhere in the background there was another pulsing noise, its beat desynchronised with the beating in my head. To move my head caused me agony as if jagged lightning struck through it, so for some time I stay...