The Wychford Poisoning
Case (1926)
My review:
Berkeley’s
second novel is not
one of his best books. In the first
place, it is clichéd: unfaithful French wife falsely accused of
murdering her
rat-like husband, and the detective attempts to prove her innocent. In the second, the dialogue is very painful,
Roger is thoroughly obnoxious, the author takes too much pleasure in
spanking,
and his world view is thoroughly misogynistic.
In the third place, the solution is a) a let-down, and b) pulled
out of
a hat.
To
the Bibliography.
To
the Berkeley Page.
To the
Grandest Game in the World.
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