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 Last Rights - Barbara Nadel
Newest Review: ... so was more than willing to give it a go. And although I don't think this particular book is outstanding in any way, it is an ... more  ... entertaining read.
Francis Hancock is a very interesting character. I liked the fact that he was still suffering from the traumas of the First World War, just because I think so many people forget about it these days. He is a very sympathetic character, perhaps because of his experiences, and his caring nature is a welcome antidote to many of the tough heros of crime fiction that we are used to. However, it is precisely this that I ended up struggling with. He is just too shy and retiring a man to have ever go...more |
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Last Rights - Barbara Nadel: Murder in World War 2 London (862 words)
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London is being bombed on a regular basis in autumn 1940 - something undertaker Francis Hancock finds intolerable, having spent much of the First World War in the trenches. Terrified of bomb shelters or anything underground, he prefers to go running while the air strikes are happening. It is on one such occasion that he comes across a man who claims to have been stabbed, despite a lack of a wound. Then the man turns up at Hancock's funeral parlour - and it does seem he died of a stab wound. When the dead man's wife later turns up at his door, having nowhere to go, Hancock takes pity on her, and vows to find out what happened to her husband. Before he knows it, he has ... Read the complete review
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