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Book Review of Charade

Charade
Charade
Author: John Mortimer
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Paperback
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A very interesting first novel from the creator of the "Rumpole of the Baily" series.

A brand new, young, fifth assistant to the director tries to understand the many mysteries within a British film unit in June 1944. One of those mysteries includes a possible murder that almost everyone pretends didn't happen.

With an ending unlike any other I've encountered, it gives an early alert from this author to the delightful, humorous complexity of situations and endings that sets the delightful Rumpole series apart.