Bloodhounds (Peter Diamond Book 4)
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (887 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B004HYH9Y0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 186 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The cat-and-mouse game plays out with plenty of twists and turns. A rare stamp is stolen from a museum, only to appear between the pages of a mystery book under consideration by a group of wing-chair sleuths known as the Bloodhounds. The plot for this mystery is well thought-out and cleverly developed with puzzling turns that keep you guessing. Peter Diamond of the Bath Police returns in the fourth installment in this marvelous detective series. . The intrigue deepens when one of the mystery buffs winds up dead. Mystery lovers will enjoy the debates over classic mystery plots that the Bloodhounds engage in, and the careful reader will wisely follow them to glean clues to solving the mystery
Tired of those silly old murder mysteries? You'll love this, then Writers of genre fiction tend to be widely read within their own narrow field. The British detective novelist Peter Lovesey is a prime example. In Bloodhounds, Lovesey demonstrates his familiarity with his genre, referring by name to a large number of prominent mystery writers. His novel is a send-up of several formulas familiar to readers of popular detective fiction. The locked room murder is the most notorious of these, and it figures as a central element in the novel’s convoluted plot.A venerabl. J Powell said A Locked Houseboat, a murdered man, and the thief of a rare stamp!. Not a new idea, but this one is done very well. A group of very odd people fancy themselves Bloodhounds who can solve mysteries better than the police. Of course they drive the police nuts with their poking around, messing things up, and studying the cops. They hold regular meetings in a church crypt. When a rare stamp is stolen, they are on the case until one of them is killed! Then they have to solve that mystery too and a few more!Of course they are a crazy group of people, right out of a British movie. mystmart said One of Lovesey's better ones. Some clever plotting and a couple unexpected. One of Lovesey's better ones. Some clever plotting and a couple unexpected twists. I don't think he ranks with the top tier of British mystery writers but he consistently delivers good light entertainment.
But there’s a hitch: the body lies inside a padlocked houseboat and the only key is in the pocket of a man with an airtight alibi.From the Trade Paperback edition.. As he investigates, Inspector Peter Diamond discovers that both the person who found the stamp and the victim belong to the Bloodhounds, an elite group of mystery lovers, who now urge Diamond to bring the murderer to justice. A rare stamp and a corpse are discovered in Bath within hours of each other