SMILING THE BOY FELL DEAD
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...and nostalgically the reviewer read. The '30's produced many a mystery like it and Robert Montgomery starred in the movie versions. The formula calls for a sleepy English village, decaying local gentry clinging to past privileges, a visiting young American like rare bookman David Cannon, a retired general's daughter for him to fall in love with, a pub what is a pub, and the contrived/connived solution for the violent death of an inconsequential victim. Penny weight escape.