Clutch of Constables
(1968)
Blurb:
My review:
An
original and
attractive plot combines a cruise of Constable country with Mrs. Alleyn
trapped
amongst the picturesque grotesques aboard the MV Zodiac,
the disposal of a Soho art-dealer, a stupid, exasperating
and pitiful spinster, and an American criminal, and the hunt for the
master-criminal Foljambe, masterminding an ingeniously detailed plot
for
drug-smuggling and art forgery. Tension
grows with a masterly management of small incidents, and is sustained
until the
final extraordinary discovery in the fog.
Equally commendable are the workmanlike detection of
Superintendent
Alleyn, embracing footprints and post-mortem marks, and the attack on
racialism.