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A Blunt Instrument(By Georgette Hcycr)In her latest thriller. Miss Hoyer has created a set of characters whose unties will keep the rendor mystified and aniUBcd. . From Miss Lucy Fletcher, drifting about In a barge of ineffectual goodwill,' to the evangelical P.C. Glass, exasperating Sergoant Hemingway with his gloomy pronouncements from the Old Testament, tho characters are all very much alive, and afford Miss Hoyer ample scope for her particular branch of humour.But why. nslcod Miss Fletcher should anyone want to murder dear Ernie? He was such a charming man, with beautiful manners, and so goneorus.But P.C. Glass found him in his study one June evening, with his-skull smashed in by r blow from a blnni Instrument, and when Superintendent Hannasyde began to Investigate tho murder lie found tbat moro than one person lmd a motive for killing dear Ernie Fletcher.There was the disconcerting Nevlllo Fletcher; shifty little Abralmm Budd; thu mysterious Charlie. Carpenter; taciturn John Worth; that strong-minded young woman Sally Drew: perhaps, even. Helen Worth, whose footprint was discovered outaido the study window.Time was an important factor in tho case, but more important was the blunt Instrument, the discovery of which would have solved the mystery of Ernie Fletcher’s death at the outset. - •Nevor concealed, it was never-found, often seen, It was nevc-r suspected. :Our copy from McDonald Bros
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Maitland Daily Mercury
Maitland, New South Wales, AU
Tue, Jul 26, 1938
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