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Bats in the Belfry (Robert MacDonald #13)

E.C.R. Lorac

Start date: February 1, 2024

Finish date: February 29, 2024

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Oct 23, 2020 Laura rated it liked it

Shelves: fiction-20th-century, read-2020, british-literature, e-books, gutenberg, vintage-crime

Robert Macdonald:
*3 #13 Bats in the Belfry
TR #23 Death Came Softly
TR #26 Murder by Matchlight
TR #27 Fire in the Thatch
TR #34 Accident by Design
TR #37 Murder in the Mill-Race

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Jan 22, 2024 Natalie rated it really liked it

Shelves: classics, mystery-thriller

This mystery was exciting and well paced as we tried to guess who killed Bruce Attleton. I enjoyed the red herrings that kept me guessing until the end who the murderer could be. A flaw of the novel is that most of the characters are underdeveloped but that is partly due to the novel being rather short.
Lorac gives us a varied cast of characters so that there are several suspects:
Robert Grenville, a tall, strong, bright gentleman who wants to figure out what has happened to Bruce.
Neil Rockingham ...more

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