He Should Have Died Hereafter (1958)

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My review:

Hare’s final novel is rather short and slight, a novella or long short story, even, despite its 189 pages.  The bickering Pettigrews spend a holiday on Exmoor, history repeating itself when Pettigrew finds a corpse on Bolter’s Tussock, which promptly disappears.  There is little mystery and less detection in what turns out to be a predictable tale of survivorship and associated legal conundrums; and the solution, based on “Silver Blaze,” A Silent Witness and The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, is disappointing.

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