The Man with The Dark Beard: An Inspector Stoddart Mystery: Volume 1 (The Inspector Stoddart Mysteries), by Annie Haynes
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“Nobody would have murdered him,” Miss Lavinia cried. “Everybody liked John!”“I’m afraid it is evident that someone did not.”The note left beside Dr. John Basted's corpse simply read: ‘It was the man with the dark beard.’Dr. Basted hadn't approved of his daughter Hilary's fiance. So when Hilary's father is found shot dead inside his own office, the door-key turned from the inside, the fiance Basil Wilton becomes a chief suspect for Scotland Yard. Yet how could the crime have been engineered?Now an important lacquered box is missing; a former colleague of Basted's has suddenly shaved his beard; and the doctor’s ex-secretary has come mysteriously into money. Before Inspector Stoddart of the Yard can form conclusions, another murder takes place, again credited to the “Man with The Dark Beard”...The Man With the Dark Beard is the first of Annie Haynes’ Inspector Stoddart mysteries, originally published in 1928. It is a sparkling lost classic from the early golden age of crime fiction.“Miss Haynes, I think, improves steadily - this is the best detective story she has yet written.” Time and Tide.
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- 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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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. nothing like what the Misses Christie and Sayers were turning out By drkhimxz Even in the 1929's much of the flavor and structure of the book was hackneyed, nothing like what the Misses Christie and Sayers were turning out, much less the somewhat later mistresses of the Classic British Mystery. Nonetheless, the hackneyed has a reason for persistence, it does touch some of the buttons of sentiment residing in many readers. For that reason, and for its value as an example of what many writers of her day were turning out, it is something that might be of interest to readers who like to get out of their time period now and again. It is easily read, simple to follow, and quick reading so, as (at the moment) an inexpensive choice at a buck, it might be the choice for that lull period many of us like between more serious efforts.The story has a classic structure. Girl loves young doctor, for reasons that would be a spoiler, girl loses young doctor and, then.....At same time, older man, girl's godfather, loves girl, when girl's father murdered, becomes her Guardian and Trustee, and, then.... Master police detective enters onto the scene, senses likely suspect might not be guilty, and........There is, of course, some interesting meat put upon these bones which, as I have suggested, can make the book worth looking at, despite its weaknesses. In mystery books advertisements and reviews of a generation (and more) ago, this is of the 'Damsel in Distress' genre.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Dark doings & thwarted love By Patto Doctor Bastow is troubled. He's accidentally come across evidence of a crime that was never suspected, let alone investigated. Should he tell the police? Even though the murder was long ago, and the murderer has long since become a good person? Before he can make a decision, the doctor himself is murdered.Dr. Bastow's pretty daughter Hilary and his crippled son Fee are looked after by their godfather, who is in love with Hilary, who is in love with a struggling young doctor. The cast of characters also includes a colorful old maid, Aunt Lavinia, who is fond of the young people. She was quite a flirt in her youth and likes to hint at her escapades. Full of good intentions and bad advice, this outspoken aunt is a very fun character.The investigator, Inspector Stoddart, is by contrast dull and undistinguished. But he does have a nose for clues. To watch him go over surfaces meticulously with a tiny microscope is a treat. A second murder follows the murder of the doctor, so the colorless inspector gets to work both cases in the same thoroughgoing style. One clue that turns up is a fake beard.The plot is seeded with suspicious characters-- a parlor maid who disappears after the doctor's murder, a downtrodden female secretary who becomes flashy and well heeled just after the murder, and a colleague of Doctor Bastow who unaccountably shaves his dark beard.I loved this little Golden Age mystery, even though I guessed whodunit. The women are dressed and coiffed in the fashion of the twenties, but there's a feeling of Victorian melodrama in the intricate puzzle plot. Everything by Annie Hayes is now on my wish list.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. good story By Grace Morgan The story was a somewhat a good mystery, not enough suspects so it was easy to guess the ending. Iwill be reading more of Annie Haynes stories, prefer them to the modern day mysteries.
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