A
murder mystery needs a dead body without an obvious killer, beyond that, it’s
all in the presentation. M. L. Longworth recaptures the things I loved in my
favorite (now dead) British authors: Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, and Ngaio
Marsh. The settings are contemporary to the author’s time; there is a murder,
but no grisly description of its occurrence; the characters, especially the
sleuths, are well developed and believable. Longworth’s Antoine Verlaque and
Marine Bonnet are so appealing I want to join them for a glass of wine and/or
dinner!
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