The Cheltenham Square Murder
Written by John Bude
Narrated by Gordon Griffin
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In the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten houses. One summer's evening, the square's rivalries and allegiances are disrupted by a sudden and unusual death—an arrow to the head, shot through an open window at no. 6. Unfortunately for the murderer, an invitation to visit had just been sent by the crime writer Aldous Barnet, staying with his sister at no. 8, to his friend Superintendent Meredith. Three days after his arrival, Meredith finds himself investigating the shocking murder. Six of the square's inhabitants are keen members of the Wellington Archery Club, but if Meredith and Long thought that the case was going to be easy to solve, they were wrong...
John Bude
JOHN BUDE was the pseudonym of Ernest Elmore (19011957), an author of the golden age of crime fiction. Elmore was a cofounder of the Crime Writers' Association, and worked in the theatre as a producer and director.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Endless conjecture. Stultifying. As we are not permitted to become acquainted with at least the first victim, we are left with what amounts to a Lengthy procedural account. Not what I long for in a mystery
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I guess he was paid per page... This book becomes very long, especially towards the end... We learn in chapter 17 of 19 that Meredith has a "method"... seemingly consisting of reviewing every single dumb hypothesis at agonizing length. I enjoyed the first part of the book, with humorous evocation of a big cast of characters. I enjoyed the evocation of Cheltenham and of Winchcombe. It was interesting and amusing that each time the inspectors thought they had the answer, they found an unsurmountable obstacle. But in the last third, and later, when everything seems to hinge on e.g. whether things happened 10 minutes earlier or later, the book became extremely boring. Agatha is a master at using perception of time as a major feature of solutions, but here I frankly cannot believe that people can do everything they are supposed to be doing (driving around, moving from house to house through skylights, shooting arrows etc. ) in a lapse of 10 minutes, and I frankly ceased to care. The resolution happened very fast and unconvincingly, compared to all the over-careful care taken in earlier chapters. And once again, the reader (who seems to have a monopoly on Golden Age mysteries) applies a small assortment of clownish accents in inappropriate tones throughout.