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Mr. Pottermack had thought of everything. He had disposed of the body in a place where no one would ever find it. He carefully, and ingeniously created a false trail to lead attention away from himself. He had even managed, though with some element of luck, to make it appear…
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This is an old book, dating back to the Golden Age of Murder between the two world wars, but I felt that in many ways it reads as freshly as if written right now.
This is because I enjoyed being taken into the world of Mr. Pottermack, a likable and essentially decent man who plans to commit a murder. His victim is a bad guy and we are rooting for Pottermack all the way through. I enjoyed watching him work out a scheme that is very clever – it felt rather like watching an episode of Columbo. Unfortunately, Pottermack is…
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