Rowson (In for the Kill, 2007, etc.) adds an appealing, if not especially original, hero to the British procedural ranks.
Solving a brutal murder is the least of DI Horton’s problems.
Andy Horton is slowly emerging from the shadows left on his career when he was falsely accused of a crime. His wife has left him for another man; he hasn’t seen his daughter in months; and he’s living on a cold, cramped boat in Langstone Harbour while attempting to chase down a clever bunch of antique thieves. The biggest blow to his ego comes when his old pal, Superintendent Uckfield, gives him a week to solve the murder of head teacher Jessica Langley before it’s handed over to the new Major Crime Team, a squad Horton had expected to join. Jessica’s body has been found on a partially submerged wreck in the harbor with a honey-smeared roll of money tucked in her knickers. The reference to Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussycat” and a cryptic note written on a betting slip in her pocket are the only clues. When Horton and his loyal friend Sgt. Cantelli start digging into Jessica’s life, they quickly discover that many people disliked the attractive, competent, abrasive head. Did any of that dislike lead to murder? Horton soon realizes that his two cases may be related. A second murder presses him to find the killer before the killer finds him.
Rowson (In for the Kill, 2007, etc.) adds an appealing, if not especially original, hero to the British procedural ranks.Pub Date: Dec. 1, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-7278-6555-7
Page Count: 224
Publisher: Severn House
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 1, 2007
This ran in the S.E.P. and resulted in more demands for the story in book form than ever recorded. Well, here it is and it is a honey. Imagine ten people, not knowing each other, not knowing why they were invited on a certain island house-party, not knowing their hosts. Then imagine them dead, one by one, until none remained alive, nor any clue to the murderer. Grand suspense, a unique trick, expertly handled.
Pub Date: Feb. 21, 1939
ISBN: 0062073478
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Review Posted Online: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1939
SEEN & HEARD
A murder is committed in a stalled transcontinental train in the Balkans, and every passenger has a watertight alibi. But Hercule Poirot finds a way.
**Note: This classic Agatha Christie mystery was originally published in England as Murder on the Orient Express, but in the United States as Murder in the Calais Coach. Kirkus reviewed the book in 1934 under the original US title, but we changed the title in our database to the now recognizable title Murder on the Orient Express. This is the only name now known for the book. The reason the US publisher, Dodd Mead, did not use the UK title in 1934 was to avoid confusion with the 1932 Graham Greene novel, Orient Express.
Pub Date: Feb. 28, 1934
ISBN: 978-0062073495
Page Count: -
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Review Posted Online: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1934
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