The House in Charlton Crescent: An Inspector Furnival Mystery: Volume 2, by Annie Haynes
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Protruding from the dead woman’s breast was the gold and jewelled dagger she had shown them half an hour before. And, looking horribly incongruous among the laces of her fichu, a deep stain was spreading.Elderly cantankerous widow Lady Anne Daventry summons a private detective, Bruce Cardyn, to her London home. He is tasked to find out one thing: just who is trying to kill her? Any number of relations have a financial interest in her death. Then there is Lady Anne’s recently dismissed private secretary, her lady’s maid and the butler…Despite Cardyn’s efforts, Lady Anne is murdered and Inspector Furnival, in his second golden age mystery, is on the case, with Cardyn playing Watson. Originally published in 1926, this new edition is the first printed in over eighty years. It features an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.“Miss Haynes’ new book shows all the merits of its predecessors. Careful plot, a villain concealed, natural setting, observation of character—for all these it scores points.” Morning Post.
The House in Charlton Crescent: An Inspector Furnival Mystery: Volume 2, by Annie Haynes- Amazon Sales Rank: #44218 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-10-05
- Released on: 2015-10-05
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About the Author
Annie Haynes was born in 1865, the daughter of an ironmonger. By the first decade of the twentieth century she lived in London and moved in literary and early feminist circles. Her first crime novel, The Bungalow Mystery, appeared in 1923, and another nine mysteries were published before her untimely death in 1929. Who Killed Charmian Karslake? appeared posthumously, and a further partially-finished work, The Crystal Beads Murder, was completed with the assistance of an unknown fellow writer, and published in 1930.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Tiresome and Silly By Mandy Cat Some lost treasures should stay lost and this is one of them. There's nothing actually awful about the book but compared to other books from the Golden Age of Mysteries it's sadly lacking. The murder itself is idiotic. The private detective spends most of his time angrily protesting the innocence of one of the suspects based, as far as we can tell, on nothing more convincing than she has nice eyes and two years earlier the detective saved her from a burning building. Not exactly hard and fast evidence even to us amateurs. The official police detective "solves" the crime when the murderer confesses for no good reason I could make out. Just nervous, I guess.There are several subplots that either hamper the narrative or have nothing whatever to do with the story. The story line about the little girl stolen by the gypsies relates to nothing that occurred earlier or later; it must have been thrown in to make up the required number of words.And, as noted elsewhere in these comments, the women characters spend 90% of their waking hours sobbing into their hankies. It's no wonder they had no time to use their heads for anything else.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I wish to consult a member of your firm By Anne Phillips I enjoyed the introduction to Annie Haynes, the author of this Inspector Furnival mystery. She had twelve mystery novels published between 1923 and her death in 1929. Virtually unknown for decades, Haynes' novels are only now becoming available again. Not much is known of her life besides her early years with her grandparents and her later years as companion of the feminist and intellectual Ada Heather-Bigg. Haynes' won critical acclaim with her work and the Sunday Times acknowledged that the plots had "considerable craftsmanship." I was looking forward to be surprised, won over, and astonished to have missed such a gem for so long! Very soon, we are confronted with a cast of characters straight from central casting: the cantankerous, wealthy, lonely, impervious Lady Anne Daventry in whose house the affair takes place, "..a picturesque figure in her black silk gown with its fichu of priceless old lace, a magnificent diamond crescent brooch gleaming amidst the filmy folds." . Of course, we have a clergyman - The Rev. and Hon. Augustus Fyvert - Lady Anne's older brother. Lady Anne's two sons died tragically during the war and now her fortune is up for grabs (in a manner of speaking). There are nieces both poor and wealthy, with gambling problems and ready to help themselves, sly employees, mysterious relatives from far away places, old-fashioned stores and chauffeurs. Soon Lady Anne reveals her fear of being poisoned to "Bruce Cardyn, junior partner in the firm of Messrs. Wilkins and Alleyn." who comes to her house on Charlton Crescent in the guise of her new confidential secretary. The house is filled with mementos - "panels of beautiful old tapestry on the walls ... daguerreotypes and old-fashioned photographs of the relatives and friends of Lady Anne's young days ... There was even a spinet, which Lady Anne loved for the sake of the dear dead-and-gone women whose fingers had touched it." We meet the assorted relatives, who all appear to be above board but not quite innocent. Needless to say, Lady Anne is killed in the most public of places and we are left to question everybody and everything we have seen and heard. Obviously, Bruce Cardyn calls the police, who appear in the guise of Inspector Furnival. I do not want to give anything away - but beyond the standard search and question everybody and everything - things appear to be going on and on and on and on ... until, FINALLY! we have a murderer.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Well-constructed By Leon A Le Leu This is the second Haynes mystery I have read and it ranks up with works by A Christie and PD James. Pity she did not live to write another fifty of these.
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