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Title: Death at the Dog by Joanna Cannan, Enid Schantz, Tom Schantz ISBN: 0-915230-23-2 Publisher: Rue Morgue Pub. Date: March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: An unconvincing plot
Comment: This is a reprint of a long-forgotten mystery which would better have been left forgotten. The book's two strong points are its sense of atmosphere and the character of the detective. Its drawbacks are (1) the murder method is extremely dubious--cyanide does NOT kill instantly with the victim making no sound, (2) the chief female character, supposedly a mature woman, acts in such an adolescent manner as to engender a desire to kick her rather than any sympathy and (3) the solution is more or less sprung on the reader.
Rating: 2
Summary: An Undistinguished Effort
Comment: As the previous review notes, the publisher of the series in which this book appears is on a mission to reprint long-forgotten mysteries. This one should have stayed forgotten.
Specifically, the characters are undeveloped, the method of killing is both unlikely and scientifically dubious, the denoument is sprung with little advance support and the chief female, instead of being sympathetic, acts in such an adolescent fashion as to make one want to smack her.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting reprint from Golden Age of mysteries
Comment: A Colorado mystery bookstore, The Rue Morgue, has been on a mission to reprint long-forgotten mysteries of the 1930s and 1940s, and their latest is "Death at The Dog," a tale of a murder in a rural British pub. World War II has just started and the first hints of change to their quiet life have started to appear: blackouts, army mobilization, and those older men left behind wondering how they can get into the war before its over. When the hated local squire is found dead in the corner after a night of drinking, an alert doctor discovers he had been injected with nicotine, and Scotland Yard inspector Guy Northeast is called in to investigate. The plotting is intricate and fair in the Golden Age tradition. But "Death" is only 156 pages long, which means there's not an ounce of fat on the story, but also no room for a depth of characterization and viewpoint that powers Sayers and Christie's works. But Cannan slowly builds interest in Northeast, and he becomes a compelling character. After the mystery is solved, it's not so much the story we remember, but the yearning, sad figure of Inspector Northeast. One would like to know what became of him.
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Title: They Rang Up the Police by Joanna Cannan, Tom Schantz, Enid Schantz ISBN: 0915230275 Publisher: Rue Morgue Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Murder Is a Collector's Item by Elizabeth Dean, Enid Schantz, Tom Schantz ISBN: 0915230194 Publisher: Rue Morgue Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Mystery at Orchard House by Joan Coggin ISBN: 0915230542 Publisher: Rue Morgue Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Hive of Suspects: An Irish Village Mystery by Sheila Pim ISBN: 0915230380 Publisher: Rue Morgue Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Murder at Beechlands by Maureen Sarsfield ISBN: 0915230569 Publisher: Rue Morgue Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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