It tells the sad story of mystery novelist Frank Cairnes who, following the death of his son in an unsolved hit-and-run accident, vows to track down the driver of the car and exact revenge. So opens this Nicholas Blake novel which is regarded by many to be the author’s finest work and which certainly must rank as his most distinctive. But I am going to find him and kill him … “ I don’t know his name, I don’t know where he lives, I have no idea what he looks like. So, 1 down and 15 to go with a classic pre-war mystery: The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake, which begins: There are several challenge levels to commit to and one can of course change as it progresses – I will attempt to read 16+ eligible books before the year is out. Over at My Reader’s Block Bev has started (and in fact already completed!) a year-long challenge for 2011 – to read a pre-determined number of classic detective stories of a pre-1960 vintage.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |