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Work InformationWith a Bare Bodkin by Cyril Hare (1946)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Light-hearted crime mystery, poking fun at the bureaucracy of the English public service, but very well written and good use of the English language. Published in 1950. ( ) I think Cyril Hare's real talent was in the selection of intriguing and appealing titles for his books. This one has been taken from Hamlet; the ones I have still to read have titles like Death is no Sportsman, Suicide Excepted and He Should Have Died Hereafter. And so even though I reached the end of this one thinking it had been a little uninteresting and unusually lacking in suspense for a crime novel, and even though I sincerely wished it had ended two pages earlier than it did, so that I could have been spared the romantic subplot which made the book seem like a cheap throwaway romance, I already feel myself tempted by those other titles. But this one I found disappointing: it begins interestingly, ends dreadfully, and doesn't really take you anywhere you don't expect to go. Continued no reviews | add a review
Is contained inInspector Mallet: 5 novels & 2 short stories. Tenant For Death, Suicide Excepted, Tragedy at Law, With A Bare Bodkin, Untimely Death, The Death of Amy ... See (Timeless Wisdom Collection Book 4578) by Cyril Hare
In the Second World War the Blitz forces the evacuation of Government offices from London. Francis Pettigrew goes with his ministry to Marsett Bay by the sea, where the civil servants must make the best of their lodgings. A lighthearted game of 'plan the perfect murder' starts, with Pettigrew aloof from the silliness - until a real murder happens. No library descriptions found.
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