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Death Among The Sunbathers
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Description The body of a brilliant woman journalist is recovered from the wreck of a burning car. It is soon discovered that the smash did not kill her; she was dead already, shot by a Browning automatic that was found near by. Superintendent Mitchell, with the help of Owen, a young University graduate turned policeman, follows the enigmatic clues backwards and forwards between a furrier, a picture dealer, and the establishment of a fanatical sunbathing enthusiast. Then dramatically the story begins to repeat itself, as the persistently recurring figure of an old lag who calls himself 'Bobs-the-boy' carries another body out into the night. Death Among The Sunbathers is the second of E.R. Punshon's acclaimed Bobby Owen mysteries, first published in 1934 and part of a series which eventually spanned thirty-five novels. This edition features a new introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans. "What is distinction? The few who achieve it step - plot or no plot - unquestioned into the first rank. We recognized it in Sherlock Holmes, and in Trent's Last Case, in The Mystery of the Villa Rose, in the Father Brown stories and in the works of Mr. E.R. Punshon we salute it every time." Dorothy L. Sayers
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5I have read other books in the series, and yet had this been the first I would never have continued. The tedium of characters rehashing the same concerns, events, threats, complaints over and over and over was almost painful. Not only was the book made up primarily of dialog (and a good chunk of that in one room), the characters - cops and villains alike - repeated themselves to other characters who were already in-the-know, often ones they'd said the Exact Same Things To. I skipped over many, many pages with no sense of guilt since the 'big twist' at the end was pretty obvious early on. I'd love to know what was going on in Mr. Punshon's life, and his editor's and publisher's heads, to set this really bad book before an unsuspecting public.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The second of the Bobby Owen mysteries. Not quite as good as the first book but still a satisfying read (despite the fact that I figured out what the big twist at the end was going to be long before it was revealed).