![]() If he is going to find the murderer, he realizes there are a number of pertinent questions he must answer. Mitch is now torn between his "two passions: cock and crime." But he cannot miss the chance to test his skills against Holmes's, so he puts the seduction momentarily on hold. ![]() (Boy's fiancee is Sir James's daughter.) Since Mitch has been scheming from the time he first saw Boy to seduce him, he accepts with alacrity.ĭuring a game of Sardines (you'll just have to read the novel for an explanation), Mitch is on the verge of achieving his goal when the fiancee's scream announces her discovery of a body. ![]() Its narrator, young Boston-born Edward Mitchell, has read everything he can find by Conan Doyle, and has lately been taken by "a new English writer of promise, Agatha Christie." (Though the language belongs very much to the present, the novel is set in August 1925.) So 'Mitch' is elated to be on the scene of an actual murder mystery.īoy Morgan, Mitch's best friend at Cambridge, where he is taking postgraduate medical studies, has invited him for a weekend at Sir James Eagle's estate on the Norfolk coast. The novel is a witty send-up of British cozies. But for those of you who are still with me: the good news is that not only is the sex a lot of fun, so also is the actual mystery itself. The cover is actually tame in comparison to the contents. ![]() If you find lots of explicit sex in your murder mystery distasteful, stop reading right now. ![]()
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