SALLY W. (thameslink) -
Entertaining mystery
K E M. (Rampallion) reviewed The Case of the Missing Bronte (Perry Trethowan, Bk 3) on + 158 more book reviews
A vacationing Scotland Yard superintendent agrees to meet with an elderly woman in a Yorkshire pub. She shows him fragile, yellowing papers that are either a clever forgery or an unpublished Brontë work. Can the superintendent solve the mystery before they both get killed?
Ron K. (WhidbeyIslander) -
Not a complete success, although Scotland Yard's Perry's observations still amuse the reader. Not a murder mystery as such, more of Perry's dogged search for the missing manuscript. He sort of knows who the people behind the theft are, and we follow him trying to prove it and find the book. There were two places I felt dragged (one in the religious setting, the other a drawn out showdown with the criminals right at the end.)
Note: although readers in England might be aware of the dynamics of the Bronte children, if you are not, you may benefit from a quick search to read up on their later lives (all too short.) This could help right at the beginning of the story, but later on doesn't come into play at all.
Note: although readers in England might be aware of the dynamics of the Bronte children, if you are not, you may benefit from a quick search to read up on their later lives (all too short.) This could help right at the beginning of the story, but later on doesn't come into play at all.
