An English murder

click here for more details, find new or used items	Cyril Hare Pages: 150 (Unknown Binding) Pub: Doubleday Pub date: 1962

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A traditional, familiar take on English murder mystery (0/0 people found this helpful)

I haven't read any detective fiction since my early teens, but this is a delightful, traditional, easy read. Set at Christmas, it really succeeds at bringing the flavour out from an oft-mined setting, with Hare's writing coming across as exceptionally warm, witty and gripping. It's a simple tale, told across a scant number of pages, but it'll keep you turning the pages for the short time it takes you to read it. Although the actual location (Markshire) is fictional, the book does briefly touch on some real world issues, the post-war political aspects are particularly intriguing. Anyway, a lot of fun, probably more so if you live in England and read it in on a dark snowy evening prior to Christmas (as if it ever snows much here now anyway!).

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