The Missing Partners (1928)

Blurb:

My review:

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Very nearly a classic: financial skulduggery, rum-running and murder in Liverpool, solved by a couple of not too bright young things (middle-class clerks and secretaries) and a rather unpleasant policeman.  Unfortunately, the book becomes horribly dull after the 100-page mark, and continues that way for another hundred.  This is a pity, for the plot is undeniably clever, full of plots, counter-plots, false trails, disguises, impersonation and identical twins, and the murderer’s identity as much of a surprise as if Wemmick should turn out to have killed Jaggers.

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