The Lake District Murder (British Library Crime Classics)

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This is gentle read that seems very tame in comparison with today's crime novels with its violence and truly nefarious deeds. These include marriage counselor, pre-natal instructor, and funeral director; which have all helped her add to her experiences and has used when writing her books. After the discovery of the body the story moves in a painstaking police procedural manner but with the nostalgic setting and involving step by step detection I was totally involved .

The Lake District Murder (British Library Crime Classics)

Deputy Chief Constable Hyde told BBC News that establishing how Bird accessed the guns would be part of the investigation. Now, admittedly both Coleridge and De Quincey did dabble in the narcotics trade, and many might suggest Potter was smoking something stronger than tobacco to see all those talking animals, but by-and-large we don’t really associate the Lake District with murder, mayhem and criminal activity. NANA AKUA: Royal tours to Commonwealth nations are now fraught with risk because of this misguided obsession.Romantics, often joined by their friends and lovers Dorothy Wordsworth, siblings Charles and Mary Lamb, Thomas De Quincey.

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He was born in 1901 and, as a boarder, he attended Mill Hill School, leaving in 1919 and moving on to Cheltenham where he attended a secretarial college and where he learned to type. I don’t know if Bude invented the police procedural, but he certainly was a pioneer at a time when the mystery landscape was littered with house-party murders, genteel poisonings, titled blackmailers, and amateur sleuths taking on criminal masterminds. She is a kind hearted woman who makes time for any requests that her clients ask of her, and she also sees something in her new assistant that makes her keep the girl on, and not try to find someone else. I picked up John Bude's 1935 The Lake District Murder from the display of British Library Crime Classics in Waterstones a couple of weeks ago because we were about to go to the Lake District and it seemed like ideal holiday reading, especially when I looked at the map opposite the title page and saw that it was set in Keswick, where we were staying.

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The Lake District Murder - Wikipedia

As coincidence would have it our old friend (and occasional CrimeReads contributor) Martin Edwards has his own Lake District-set series. Inspector Meredith is presented with what appears to be a suicide but which he very quickly realises is actually a murder disguised as a suicide. About two-thirds of the way through, the following line appears: "He realised, with a pang of hopelessness, that he still had a long way to go. The liveliest character is his wife who has enough personality to discourage their son from pursuing the police as a career.Described as a ‘fast-moving thriller’, The Fell Walker is based in the Lake District, the Scottish Highlands and Manila. She said a female taxi driver working for her had to swerve to avoid Mr Bird's car immediately after the first shooting. I bought it on the strength of the cover a 1930's Lake District travel poster and the fact that it was in Waterstones on a table marked " Dignified Detection " along with Dorothy Sayers and Agatha Christie . Thank you so much, British Library Publishing, for re-releasing this gem of a mystery novel and its sequel, The Sussex Downs Murder. To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details.

The Lake District Murder: John C Adams Reviews

Police tonight revealed that 12 people had been shot by a cab driver who went on a bloody rampage in the Lake District before turning the gun on himself. Inspector Meredith’s quest for the truth behind the murder is inexhaustible and is quite often hard to follow. The Lake District Murder is from the British Library’s excellent Golden Age of Crime reissue project, which gives new life to a range of books from the 1920s and 1930s, all written by superb authors whose names are largely forgotten to our modern world. The focus was on the mechanics and technicalities of the investigation and seeing justice done for the victim.The immediate assumption is that Clayton has committed suicide, though Inspector Meredith becomes suspicious when he sees the tea laid out in the adjoining cottage. The readers did not feel as if they really knew these characters, or if they really wanted to get to know them. Some found the book to be a little drawn out, making the ending come a lot later than they thought it should.