A gesture which express with eloquence and economy the tiresomeness of circumstances, the unreasonableness of human beings who get themselves drowned, and his own satisfaction in expecting the worst of life and being right.’ ‘Bill clicked his tongue against his front teeth, and jerked his head back. Her attention to even small characters is apparent in these opening pages and I was particularly struck by how a coast guard cynical attitude towards the body is described: Tey is good at opening her novels and I enjoyed how she slowly reveals the initial crime. Yet there are others who also fit the bill for murderer: her explorer husband, a song writer and even theatrical rivals. So it is not surprising that the police are after him, especially once the will is read. Bit of a wastrel and lazy individual, he has a fairly ropey story as to what he was doing around the time of the murder namely stealing and then returning her car. She had been hiding away from friends and media at a nearby cottage, though she had taken on lodger, the very broke Robert Tisdall, who had just spent all of his inheritance. Initially it is assumed to be suicide or accidental, but it is not long before it becomes murder. Our nominated corpse comes up early in the story, within a matter of pages, the film actress Christine Clay, who is found washed up on a beach. Yet I’d completely forgotten what happens in it, even the culprit. According to my Goodreads list, I gave this book 5/5 when I first read it.
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