Miles Burton (1884–1964)
Auteur van The Secret of High Eldersham
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(eng) Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964) wrote many detective novels under the names John Rhode, Miles Burton, and Cecil Waye.
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- Officiƫle naam
- Street, Cecil John Charles
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Rhode, John
Street, John
Burton, Miles
Waye, Cecil
Street, C. J. C.
F. O. O. - Geboortedatum
- 1884-05-03
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1964-12-08
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- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
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- Gibraltar
- Plaats van overlijden
- Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, UK
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- detective novelist
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propagandist - Organisaties
- British Army
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire - Ontwarringsbericht
- Cecil John Charles Street (1884-1964) wrote many detective novels under the names John Rhode, Miles Burton, and Cecil Waye.
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- 1,630
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- #15,774
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- 3.4
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- 139
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It starts off as a classic locked room mystery with a man found shot dead in a railway carriage. The door leading to the tracks was unlocked though and the train slowed in a tunnel due to lights indicating a workman signalling red then green. So in theory someone could have stepped aboard - except that signalmen in boxes at both ends had a good view and swear that no one could have got past them. It looks like suicide but there are a few unanswered questions, and Inspector Arnold is called upon. He involves his amateur sleuth friend, Desmond Merrion, and they embark on a series of cross-country investigations following up various leads and considering the theories which Merrion comes up with. The policeman is a plodder and becomes fixated on one individual being the culprit although Merrion tries to steer him away from that multiple times.
It's never a good thing for me when I spot things before the protagonist(s) and that was certainly the case with the mystery of the tunnel, which I instantly picked up on when another character mentioned a way someone could have got in or out - but the two detectives failed to pick up on it for quite a while until the penny dropped with Merrion. However, the real issue is that the crime was pre-planned with various elements put in place or things checked regarding the timing of the shooting, and yet the eventual denouement showed that the murder wasn't even necessary. I won't go into spoilers but given that a particular person could have got their hands on the loot and then absconded, with or without first sharing it with one of the others, I couldn't see why anyone needed to commit murder in the first place. I can't therefore give the book any more than a 2 star rating.
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