JOHN CREASEY – The Scene of the Crime. Inspector Roger West. Berkley F1245, paperback; 1st printing thus, June 1966. Printed earlier by Hodder & Stoughton, UK, hardcover, 1961, and by Charles Scribner’s Sons, US, hardcover, 1961.
It’s not significantly nice to look at a person plan and perform two murders that, along with his logic, appear virtually easy and pure. A warped thoughts is revealed with all of its rationalities, and extra chilling due to that. What are you able to say a few man who loves his household a lot that he’ll kill them so they’ll by no means be taught the reality about him?
Inspector West’s household turns into concerned once they go house-hunting, solely to seek out the one the assassin’s spouse has her coronary heart set on it. And his sons do a little bit of Hardy boys adventuring, although rather more harmful, as a part of old flame, with the assassin’s daughters.
A case is constructed in opposition to the flawed man, doubt units in, and that case so rigorously constructed should in some way be torn down, Since information of the actual assassin is the reader’s from the start, a way of urgency floods over every part.
Human curiosity deduction, with the emphasis on “human.”
Score: *****
— March 1969.
