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    Dead Man's Quarry: A Golden Age Mystery

    By Ianthe Jerrold

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    Description"the murderer was also riding a bicycle... why, if we can trace it, we shall have the murderer!"On a cycling holiday in the idyllic Wales-Herefordshire border countryside, Nora and her friends make a gruesome discovery - the body of their missing comrade at the bottom of a quarry. But an apparently accidental fall turns out to have been murder - for the man was shot in the head.Fortunately John Christmas, last seen in The Studio Crime (1929), is on hand with his redoubtable forensic assistant, Sydenham Rampson. Between them they shed light on an intricate pattern of crimes... and uncover a most formidable foe.Dead Man's Quarry is the second of Ianthe Jerrold's classic and influential whodunits, originally published in 1930. This edition, the first for more than eighty years, features a new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDean Street Press
    Release dateMay 4, 2015
    ISBN9781910570302
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    • 3/5
      The book is second in the series of the amateur detective John Christmas and this time he is joined by his compatriot and cousin Sydenham Rampson who played a small but significant role in the 1st book- The Studio Crime. This pairing is one of the strengths of the book- the chalk and cheese combination makes for entertaining and droll conversations.

      The story has again all the classic elements- this time in an English country setting in fact the 2 John Christmas stories have contrasting settings- urban and rural. The list of characters is quite long but every individual has a persona which keeps you interested till the end. Again, the author spreads the pointers to the mystery well but enough to give an inkling of the mystery.

      In the end, the mystery is slightly far-fetched and you perhaps feel that it could have been woven better.

      Again, a nice addition to the mystery shelves and worth picking up for a read.