“The murderer was also riding a bicycle... why, if we can trace it, we shall have the murderer!”
On a cycling holiday in idyllic Herefordshire countryside, Nora and her friends make a gruesome discovery – the body of their missing comrade at the bottom of a quarry. But an apparently accidental fall turns out to have been murder – for the man was shot in the head.
Fortunately John Christmas, last seen in The Studio Crime (1929), is on hand with his redoubtable forensic associate, Sydenham Rampson. Between them they shed light on an intricate pattern of crimes... and uncover a most formidable foe.
Dead Man’s Quarry is the second of Ianthe Jerrold’s classic and influential whodunits, originally published in 1930.
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三星半.作者因为处女作《The Studio Crime》受到好评而被邀请加入侦探俱乐部，成为最初的成员之一，并随后于次年发表了此作.这是一部非常典型的黄金时期英式乡村推理，笔法极为细腻节奏极为缓慢以至于让人感到有些腻歪，其核心plot与7年后Sutherland Scott的《Crazy Murder Show》非常相似，但从公平性来讲要比后者好很多，以致于我在还剩50页时才醒悟过来，不过老实说... 三星半.作者因为处女作《The Studio Crime》受到好评而被邀请加入侦探俱乐部，成为最初的成员之一，并随后于次年发表了此作.这是一部非常典型的黄金时期英式乡村推理，笔法极为细腻节奏极为缓慢以至于让人感到有些腻歪，其核心plot与7年后Sutherland Scott的《Crazy Murder Show》非常相似，但从公平性来讲要比后者好很多，以致于我在还剩50页时才醒悟过来，不过老实说有些东西对于现代读者来讲还是比较难接受的.Dean Street出版社再版的作者四本作品之一，不是很推荐阅读 (展开)