Death Has Deep Roots (1951)

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My review:

A classic courtroom drama.  Victoria Lamartine is on trial for the murder of her supposed lover, Major Thoseby.  The police and prosecution think it a “sealed box” mystery, for there are only five suspects: three hotel staff-members and two guests, so one of them must have done it—and Mlle. Lamartine is the obvious suspect.  Investigation by the defence reveals that the crime is the fruit of a green bay tree whose “deep roots” extend into wartime France, to the Resistance and attempts to defeat the Nazis.  Thriller elements proliferate, but the whole hangs together very neatly, almost as neatly, in fact, as the true solution.

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