When a key is sent to the Rev Colin Armitage it heralds the first of the murders. The Reverend attempts to determine the who and why.
Unfortunately worked out who the guilty person was, and found some of the characters irritating.
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A classic British murder mystery with all the right ingredients, a bucolic village with cottages and rose gardens, a big manor house, eccentric inhabitants, murder ( of course) of a mysterious woman and in this case a very sunny feeling. Perfect, were it not for the outdated attitude and opinions expressed by the author.They concern women and their place in society, women and divorce, imprisonment, death penalty....Admittedly, it was written several decades ago, still....
Pity, because otherwise it would have been a perfect reading for one of those sunny afternoons in spring. ( )

A classic British murder mystery with all the right ingredients, a bucolic village with cottages and rose gardens, a big manor house, eccentric inhabitants, murder  ( of course) of a mysterious woman and in this case, a very sunny,summery feeling. Perfect, were  it not for the outdated attitude and opinions expressed by the author.They concern women and their place in society, women and divorce, imprisonment, death penalty....Admittedly, it was written several decades ago ,still...
Pity, because otherwise it would have been a perfect reading for one of those sunny afternoons in spring.  ( )