Death at the Dog Inspector Guy Northeast Book 2 eBook Joanna Cannan
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It is late 1939 and Crescy Hardwick is a charismatic, if unpredictable, divorcée who seems to have found her place in the world at last…
She loves and cherishes the rural cottage she has rented for the past few years.
So, it is especially galling when she receives notice from the landlord of her impending eviction.
Being Crescy, she does not take it well…
But she is not the only person in the community to despise her landlord, Mathew Scaife. Most of the local people and even his own family seem to resent him.
Nobody mourns when old Mathew is discovered dead in his chair at the local pub. Indeed, it seems likely that he would have been swiftly forgotten – were it not for the eagle eyes of an apparently bumbling doctor, who makes an astonishing discovery.
Mathew Scaife was murdered; quickly and quietly and in a room full of people.
How could this be?
It is up to Inspector Guy Northeast to find out who killed Mathew and why. Returning reluctantly to the area, he quickly works out that the prime suspect is Crescy Hardwick.
Which is something Guy finds difficult to come to terms with, for a host of reasons … not all of them professional, or even logical.
As Guy establishes the ingenious method used to kill Scaife, and as the case against Crescy mounts, Inspector Northeast must determine whether that case is based in fact, or whether something more complicated is going on …
Many people disliked Mathew Scaife. But who would be willing to risk the gallows to kill him? And why?
As Guy investigates the people around him, he discovers that some of them differ greatly from the image they present to the world. The question is, is Crescy among those individuals?
And if so, could she be a murderess, or has somebody else been guilty all along?
Death at the Dog is a chilling murder mystery that keeps up the suspense until the very last page.
Praise for Joanna Cannan
‘An excellent English rural tale.” — Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor in A Catalogue of Crime
‘Classic detective fiction’ – Thomas Waugh
Before Joanna Cannan tried her hand at detective fiction, her books dealt primarily with the aftermath of World War I and life in England during the Great Depression, although several of her novels did have elements of crime fiction in them. All show her keen interest in the social mores of the day and how people behave in difficult times. During the war, Cannan devoted her energies with great success to writing fiction for young readers.
Death at the Dog Inspector Guy Northeast Book 2 eBook Joanna Cannan
This was a closed pub mystery. A man was murdered while sitting in the pub, without any customers noticing a thing. The method used by the killer was a surprise to me, and quite original. The characters were quirky, and it was a challenge to guess who committed the murder.Product details
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Death at the Dog Inspector Guy Northeast Book 2 eBook Joanna Cannan Reviews
Enjoyable if you like English inspectors. I do!
Great mystery! Characters you would want to meet! Love the pub!
Yuk is all i can say for this book could not do my usual 50 pages to decide to delete the book.
Well written and a wonderful mystery, started a little slow as the characters were introduced, then took off with a shot. Great Who-Done-It.
Played well on Text-To-Speech.
I had previously read another story by Joanna Cannan, THEY RANG UP THE POLICE, and gave it 5++ enthusiastic stars. My expectation was that this book would give me the same delightful reading experience. Sadly, this was not to be.
Even though both stories featured the same detective, Inspector Guy Northeast, the resulting stories are very, very different. Someone had killed the local Squire while he sat in his customary corner seat in the local pub, The Dog. The lounge and public bar were filled with people and yet no one knew 1.) that he had been murdered and 2.) how anyone could have done it. The murder takes place very early on in the book and there are numerous people in the pub at the time of the crime. I had a hard time keeping all the characters identified in my mind. I got very confused as to who each one was, why they were there, and what they were doing. Inspector Northeast was no longer an untried policeman. He had solved at least one murder case before (see th first paragraph) and was dispatched from London to help the local officials get this one solved. It was a bit of a stretch for the author to have made the crime take place in the same county as before (Loamshire) and the local policemen remain just the same, and to have them welcome Northeast with open arms when they were so thoroughly against him in the other novel. But, that is the way it was set up so that is what we had to go with.
I didn't actually like this story. I wanted it to be over. I didn't like any of the characters and especially not the lead female. Why would three men have been so completely smitten with that person? It made no sense to me at all. She was totally unlovely in my opinion and very much a departure from the typical heroine I have come to expect from English mystery stories written in the 1940's. Maybe that would have been acceptable but I didn't like any of the male characters either. Each character in this book was presented in such a shallow manner that I never got to know them very well and what I knew, I didn't like.
The murder weapon I spotted very quickly. It was done-to-death in books written about this time. The method of looking into the pub is a total puzzle unless you have been to England and looked at those items and wondered what in the world they are. And it was never made completely clear to me as to how the fatal blow was struck. I don't want to give away the method so I can't be any more specific, but I've read the book and I'm not sure I could describe it to you even now.
This book left me with a brooding, dark feeling. I didn't like anything about it, really, and would not recommend it to any of my friends. I gave it 3 stars because I do like the older, period mysteries better and I'm grateful to Rue Morgue Press for reprinting so many of the old stories. My stars are essentially for the publisher, not the book.
I enjoyed the traditional English village setting of this 1940s mystery but found it difficult to follow all the characters and found many of them unlikeable. I would still try another by this author as I enjoy cozy English mysteries.
Death at the Dog is a better than average Golden Age mystery--not in the same league as novels by Sayers and Allingham, but a solid runner-up. If, like me, you're more interested in characters and setting than in the mystery itself, you'll be well rewarded. Unfortunately, Cannon wrote only two novels featuring Inspector Northeast. The other is They Rang Up the Police.
This was a closed pub mystery. A man was murdered while sitting in the pub, without any customers noticing a thing. The method used by the killer was a surprise to me, and quite original. The characters were quirky, and it was a challenge to guess who committed the murder.
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