Lord Francis Powerscourt 9: Death of a Wine Merchant - David Dickinson Reviews
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Newest Review: ... Lord Wimsey style murder mystery, in which a murder is solved by the brilliance of an upper class Lord. Those kind of novels ... more
... of which there are a few around always annoy me, not so much the use of a rich and slightly pompous character but the use of the detective seeming to understand the clues and the order of importance in a moment. I've found this style of murder mystery writing as a bit lazy, one of the best parts of any murder mystery is for the reader to try and solve the murder before the detective in the tale. As with most murder mysteries it is in truth not too hard to work out who might be responsible, but the easy acceptanc...more
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Customer Lord Francis Powerscourt 9: Death of a Wine Merchant - David Dickinson Reviews (1)
by - written on 07/11/11 (Very useful, 72 readings)
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Death of a Wine Merchant is the 8th book in the Lord Powerscourt crime fiction series, it was written by David Dickinson (no not that one but an educated Oxford lecturer). The book is about the murder of a wine merchant at his daughter's marriage, just after the marriage a shot rings out and the bride's father Randolph Colville is found dead of a gunshot with his brother Cosmo sat in a chair holding a smoking gun. Cosmo is being defended by Charles Pugh who asked his friend Lord Powerscourt to investigate the murder; the murder is set in the early years of the twentieth century. From the beginning I was concerned that this novel would pan out to be a terrible ... Read the complete review
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