Crooked Herring
L.C. Tyler
Felony & Mayhem, May 21 2015, $14.95
www.felonyandmayhem.com
ISBN 9781631940569
Crime writer Henry Holiday informs his friend novelist Ethelred
Tressider that he remembers two things about New Year’s Eve. First he was very drunk while making the
rounds in Sussex with his equally intoxicated crime
writer friend Crispin Vynall; and second he believes he killed his
drinking buddy. An upset Henry says his
efforts to contact Crispin failed.
Calmly Ethelred asks where Vynall’s
body is, but Henry insists he has no idea as to where he may have left the
corpse. Reluctantly Ethelred agrees to
follow unobtrusively Henry’s holiday binge with much less emphasis on
imbibing. Leaving London, Ethelred’s
literary agent domineering Elsie Thirkettle visits him and warns him not to get
involved.
The fifth Ethelred and Elsie amateur sleuth (see The Herring in
the Library and Herring
on the Nile) is a very amusing investigation into what the
protagonist expects to be Much Ado About Nothing. Part of the jocularity comes from Elsie’s wry
journal; while much more from Ethelred’s bumbling inquiry that has him in
trouble with the law, and finally from the Amazon U.K. reviews of his novels.
Harriet Klausner
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