Who murdered the man whose body was found on a railway line in South Africa? A police procedural set in the 1920s, when forensics was in its infancy, bobbies patrolled their beats and the detectives had to book a car if they needed one. The second half of the novel investigates a linked crime in Scotland whose shocking denouement throws new light of the first murder.
A classic whodunnit from the golden days of detective fiction written by one of the masters of the genre in his time, now sadly unrecognised.
As was common in those days, the Jewish diamond merchant is portrayed with the usual anti-Semitic stereotyping; casual racism is also to be found in the portrayal of the 'negro' witness.
August 2024; 254 pages
Freeman Wills Croft was a prolific author. Aldo reviewed in this blog:
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