Sky High! (1955)
Blurb:
My review:
Although
often
dismissed as a village cosy, this is as exciting and well plotted as
the rest
of his books. The murder method is
particularly exciting and ingenious: Major Macmorris and his house are
blown up
by a bomb, and what was suspected from the first becomes clear: the
Major’s
military past was false (rather risky in a village where every
character has an
Army background), and he was really an out-of-work actor named Don
Trefusis,
nursing a gimmick—i.e., blackmailing someone.
Owing to the very small list of suspects, the reader should be
able to
guess the identity of the murderous victim without great difficulty. After a fair bit of detection, dealings with
the unpleasant Inspector Luck, a chase through a