Death in the Stocks

4.5 Stars PC Dickenson is returning from night patrol finds a corpse in evening dress locked in the stocks on the village green. He identifies the body immediately. Andrew Vereker was not a well-loved man, and narrowing down the suspects is not going to be an easy job. The Vereker family are corrupt and eccentric and hardly cooperative plus they are all horrid. It's another case for the resourceful Superintendent Hannasyde, who sets off on the trail of a killer so cunning that even his consummate powers of detection are tested to their limits, he’s aided by the Vereker's solicitor Giles Carrington. In fact Hannasyde & Giles are the only likeable characters. This book was first published in 1935. The characters are stereotyped but for me that made the book even more delightful, the author really hit the nail on the head with the playboy businessman, the sulky artist & the beautiful gold digger. I thoroughly enjoy the author's detective books because they reflect the era & there’s the tongue in cheek element to them My honest review is for a special copy I voluntarily read

Not the best read I have had.

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