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 Death at the Bar - Ngaio Marsh
Newest Review: ... and Dorothy L Sayers. Her books all star Roderick Alleyn, detective extraordinaire, and the various murders that he manages ... more  ... to stumble across, usually while on holiday. As a detective, Alleyn is not one of my favourites; he is fairly bland, a bit too smart for his own good and has never really made much of an impact on me anyway. In this book though, he does appear quite a lot softer and more human than in other books. For a start, he makes his feelings for his colleague, Fox, very clear when Fox’s life is put into danger. This made me warm to him much more than usual.
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Death at the Bar - Ngaio Marsh: Proof that lawyers shouldn't drink.... (794 words)
by - written on 08/05/07 (Very useful, 96 readings)
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Luke Watchman, a London lawyer, is on his way to meet his friends in a small seaside town where they plan to spend a few weeks on holiday. When someone unexpectedly crashes into the side of his car, he is surprised to find that he finds the person familiar, but cannot place him. When he later discovers that the man, who is called Robert Legge, is staying at the same pub as he is, he slowly begins to remember where he has seen him before. When Watchman is poisoned a few days later, suspicion immediately falls on Legge, but there seems to be no way that he could have committed the crime. With a pub full of people at the time, it seems that the murderer, whoever ... Read the complete review
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