End of Chapter

Rating:
Summary: Please reissue in English!
Review: This is mainly a plea to any lurking representative of a
publishing house which might be able to reissue this mystery in
English (it is still in print in German as "Ende des Kapitels").
Featuring Blake's appealing amateur sleuth Nigel Strangeways,
this book begins with the murder of a bestselling author who is
midway through writing her memoirs. Suspicion centers (although
not exclusively) on the tightly wound employees of the victim's
employer, the Wenham & Geraldine publishing house. Strangeways's
difficult and poignant unmasking of the criminal flows from his
understanding of human psychology and the literary mind. This
is a memorable offering from the man whose day job (as Cecil
Day-Lewis) was serving as the UK's Poet Laureate.