The Piccadilly Murder
(1929)
My review:
“In
any case, I
think we may say that this is an exceedingly carefully laid and clever
plot. Any plot involving impersonation
must be so.”
One of Berkeley’s
best.
Throughout, the style is witty,
ironical and amusing; the depiction of the hotel at which the
old lady
is poisoned by prussic acid (apparently with nobody around her), a
murder
witnessed by the bumbling and amusing Mr. Chitterwick, is very
well-done; and
the solution, relying on elements from Chesterton’s “Queer
Feet” and “Invisible
Man,” a triumph of misdirection.
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