The White Cottage Mystery (1928)

This story totally reminds me of Poirot and Hastings and Sherlock and Watson. Jerry and his dad W.T. Challoner a police detective investigates the death of a blackmailer and evil man who took great pleasure in torturing the people he is blackmailing. This was a quick read, I just could not put it down. The book had a well developed plot and the characters were great.
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This very early work from Margery Allingham is indeed quite amateurish at points, but shows flashes of the effective dialog and pacing that make her later novels so much fun. The story here is classic English cosy: there's a murder at the White Cottage, the nasty neighbor's dead, and who, who, who was in the house and might have done it? The answer is clear from miles away, but atmosphere is the attraction here, not plot and thrills. ( )

Margery Allingham's first novel, it was orginally written as a newspaper serial, so the pace is brisk and there is a twist or reveal at the end of each chapter. A brilliantly plotted murder mystery. ( )

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