The Scotland Yard man on the case is lonely, quietly appealing Richard Jury. The village here is Long Piddleton, where two bodies (both belonging to strangers) have just been found in bizarre positions at two different inns. Unlike Cody, however, Grimes is working in the grand old English-village style-successfully recalling (without lapsing into parody) the humor of Marsh and Allingham, the red-herring smorgasbord of Christie, and some of the richer textures of Sayers. Like Liza Cody's Dupe (above), Grimes' mystery debut is a triumph manquÉ-with style, wit, charm, atmosphere.
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