Smallbone Deceased: A London Mystery (British Library Crime Classics)

February 16, 2020 - Comment

Horniman, Birley and Craine is a highly respected legal firm with clients drawn from the highest in the land. When a deed box in the office is opened to reveal a corpse, the threat of scandal promises to wreak havoc on the firm’s reputation – especially as the murder looks like an inside job. The

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Horniman, Birley and Craine is a highly respected legal firm with clients drawn from the highest in the land. When a deed box in the office is opened to reveal a corpse, the threat of scandal promises to wreak havoc on the firm’s reputation – especially as the murder looks like an inside job. The partners and staff of the firm keep a watchful and suspicious eye on their colleagues, as Inspector Hazlerigg sets out to solve the mystery of who Mr Smallbone was – and why he had to die.
Written with style, pace and wit, this is a masterpiece by one of the finest writers of traditional British crime novels since the Second World War.

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Anonymous says:

Smallbone Deceased Henry Bohun has just started work as a newly qualified solicitor with the reputable firm of Horniman, Birley and Craine when a body is found in a deed box. The dead Mr Smallbone’s presence threatens to destroy the firm’s reputation especially as the police – in the person of Inspector Hazlerigg – start thinking that the death has to have been an inside job.Hazlerigg decides to trust the delightful Henry Bohun as he started with the firm after the murder and Henry finds himself…

Anonymous says:

Witty, and interestingly-plotted. This is one the best detective novels I have read this year-so far.It is wittily written, with an interesting plot, and vividly-drawn characters.The professional, Chief Inspector Hazlerigg, ably assisted by DS Plumptree, is neatly contrasted with the amateur, Henry Bohun, in the investigation of two murders in the office of a very respectable City law firm. There is a large cast from which to choose suspects, and there are some finely-placed red herring. The conclusion…

Anonymous says:

A Genuine Jewel of the Genre When all around writers and publishers seem to be clumsily cranking out poor pastiches of ‘Golden Age’ crime writing it’s a great pity that one of the cleverest craftsmen of the time should be relatively unknown, and, in particular, for this jewel of the genre to lie largely undiscovered amid the general dross.Each tiny piece of the plot is placed so subtly yet so securely that it is not until the final few pages that the reader sees why each one, so apparently insignificant in…

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