Well-paced Golden Age mystery; it's always a joy to find a new series and Inspector MacDonald appears to be a detective that a reader can sink his or her teeth into. Leans away from upper-classes that Christie is so fond of and firmly towards the lower-middle and middle classes - there are definitely no hunting parties at the Castle hereabouts and we're all the better for it. Stands out for an especially insightful scene set in a bomb shelter during the Blitz.

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