To research a new detective story, Charles Applegate takes a post in a progressive school of misfits, set deep in the English countryside. The game turns serious when a fellow teacher is murdered and a weird variety of criminals seem convinced that Charles has something they want.
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An English Mystery with Plenty of Humor and Surprises,
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This is a very skilful yarn that starts with a murder in the English countryside, at a progressive school for "difficult" boys and girls. It turns out that the school building was once the country home of a corrupt Member of Parliament, Johnny Bogue. Bogue was lost in a plane crash during World War II, but he apparently left something of great value hidden in his former home. Charles Applegate, a new teacher at the school, and Hedda Pont, a very refreshing heroine, get tangled up in the quest for Bogue's "fortune", opposed by a group of sinister characters who reminded me of the gang of heavies in "The Maltese Falcon". I was most interested by the well-drawn characters (many of them eccentric - the book is quite humorous), and especially by the gradual revelation of the personality and history of Johnny Bogue. (By the way, you won't find out the exact nature of Bogue's fortune until the very end.) Recommended.
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Johnny Bogue, Eileen Delaney, Bramley Hall, Maureen Gardner, Miss Pont, Barney Craigen, Where Dons Delight, Charles Applegate, Eddie Martin, Anarchist Country Community, Miss Tranter, Miss Delaney, South America, Bramley Arms, Enid Klug, Grand Marine Hotel, Henry Caution, New Radical Party, Uncle Jeremy, Bank of England, John Deverell, Max Eckberger, Poor Frankie, Victorian Gothic, Aunt Janine New!
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Johnny Bogue, Eileen Delaney, Bramley Hall, Maureen Gardner, Miss Pont, Barney Craigen, Where Dons Delight, Charles Applegate, Eddie Martin, Anarchist Country Community, Miss Tranter, Miss Delaney, South America, Bramley Arms, Enid Klug, Grand Marine Hotel, Henry Caution, New Radical Party, Uncle Jeremy, Bank of England, John Deverell, Max Eckberger, Poor Frankie, Victorian Gothic, Aunt Janine New!
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- Bland Beginning by Julian Symons in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Death in April by Andrew M. Greeley in Back Matter
- The Man Who Knew Too Much by G. K. Chesterton in Back Matter
- The Man Who was Thursday by Gilbert Chesterton in Back Matter
- The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace in Back Matter
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- The Red Right Hand by Joel Townsley Rogers on page 192
- Odds Against Tomorrow by William McGivern in Back Matter
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