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Robert Richardson (1) (1940–2021)

Author of Bellringer Street

For other authors named Robert Richardson, see the disambiguation page.

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Augustus Maltravers with girlfriend Tess Davy travel to visit friends have planned a relaxing week staying with friends in a village near Edenbridge House, the home of the Earl of Pembury.
The relaxed holiday disappears as a skeleton disappears and a body is found.
 
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Vesper1931 | 2 other reviews | Jul 29, 2021 |
a British lord is murdered. Is it the cousin who will inherit, the jealous husband or rejected homosexual lover?
 
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ritaer | 2 other reviews | Apr 15, 2020 |
DNF.

But it's still only getting 1 star.

I got through 26% of this book, and that was too much. More than it deserves. Just when I thought I might make it through, Richardson describes a cricket match is excruciating detail.

And that's where he could have turned it around. If you can introduce something to a reader, and hold their interest, you've proven your worth. But to write it as such an in-group kind of thing that the reader unfamiliar with cricket has to go through SEVERAL pages to skip past it... that is the end for this reader.… (more)
 
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LauraCerone | 2 other reviews | May 26, 2016 |
Entertaining, but as characterizes this genre of mystery, a little contrived. The red herrings were indeed effective, but in the end the story did not affect me very much. The best scene was Maltravers facing down the police chief, Madden.
½
 
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Darrol | 2 other reviews | Apr 19, 2011 |

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