British Library Crime Classics: Murder of a Lady: A Scottish Mystery (Paperback)

from TeaTimeCoder

Agatha Christie mysteries are panto, this is farce. About as ridiculous except the setting is somehow even more contrived. The glass eye falling out of the protagonist's eye socket doesn't get any funnier the 10th time it happens.

from booksandscones

I thought this book would be just the kind of mystery I'd like, but I got fed up with it about half-way through and didn't finish it. The locked room plot was interesting, but for me, John Dickson Carr does it much better. I will donate this one, and hope it finds a reader who will enjoy it more.

from BrianEWilliams

This is an ingenious "impossible crime" murder mystery. Martin Edwards, in his Introduction to this British Library Crime Classic edition, wrote that it will appeal to readers who love "a cunningly contrived puzzle" because it is certainly that. The original crime is compounded when two of the po...

from Dokfintong

The first paragraph alone is worth the price. "Murder of a Lady" (released in the USA as "The Silver Scale Mystery") by Anthony Wynne is one of the older British mysteries that are being reprinted by Poisoned Pen Press and The British Library. It was first published in 1931 by Hutchinson, London....

from amaraki

A locked room mystery. The sister of the local laird is stabbed to death one night with seemingly no way in or out of her room. More murders follow of the inspectors sent to investigate the crime, but it is amateur detective Dr. Hailey who finally solves it. Published in 1931 it often seemed date...