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Summary: Is it murder or suicide in the luxury houseboat?
Review: Luxury yachts and houseboats were popular venues for murder during the detective fiction vogue of the 1930s. Freeman Wills Crofts opts for a large houseboat, moored in the Thames at the time for the Henley Regatta to present us with the discovery one morning in a locked cabin of the millionaire houseboat owner Andrew Harrison. Motives for murder abound, as we see as the first quarter of the book presents us with the final months of Andrew Harrison's life, but death appears to have been by accident or suicide. Crofts devises an ingenious variant on the locked room (cabin) murder mystery here, and contrives to direct us (and Detective Inspector French) to choose the wrong suspect, but is otherwise not in his best form in this 1938 novel.
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Summary: Is it murder or suicide in the luxury houseboat?
Review: Luxury yachts and houseboats were popular venues for murder during the detective fiction vogue of the 1930s. Freeman Wills Crofts opts for a large houseboat, moored in the Thames at the time for the Henley Regatta to present us with the discovery one morning in a locked cabin of the millionaire houseboat owner Andrew Harrison. Motives for murder abound, as we see as the first quarter of the book presents us with the final months of Andrew Harrison's life, but death appears to have been by accident or suicide. Crofts devises an ingenious variant on the locked room (cabin) murder mystery here, and contrives to direct us (and Detective Inspector French) to choose the wrong suspect, but is otherwise not in his best form in this 1938 novel.
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