It's mystery and love story. The storyteller has the "it" factory to make me want to read book 3. Once you are immersed in the story, you feel like your really in the story
Death After Evensong
by Douglas Clark
The body was found in the village school.
The vicar of Rooksby-le-Soken in East Anglia was found on Monday morning on a classroom floor with a hole through his heart—but no trace of the bullet. Indubitably he had been killed on the spot, the blood on the wall behind him was proof of that.
Detective Chief Inspector George Masters was sent by the Yard to sort things out and decided the method was less important than the motive. From his headquarters in the local pub Masters began his delving into the private lives of the villagers and soon discovered that the vicar was a much unloved incumbent.
No one had a good word for him and quite a number had considerably less than that. The publican and his Italian wife, with an attractive, still unwed daughter of twenty-eight, the local G.P. and his obstreperous son who ran a joint practice, the village carpenter, and the schoolmaster with a grudge, were only a few of the suspects Masters unearthed in twenty-four hours.
In a few days he had raked up enough dirt to put a lot of them on the spot. But in the end it was his capacity for remembering significant details and fitting them into the jigsaw that sorted out the man and the method.
Death After Evensong is book 2 in the Masters and Green Mystery series.
Praise for Douglas Clark
“The many who miss the properly clued inductive detective story will fall on this one with relief” - Times Literary Supplement
“A good, satisfying, competent whodunit, intelligently thought out and believable without unnecessary fireworks of sex or violence. And the answer, when it comes, is much more convincing than the majority of those in thriller dénouements” - ANTHONY PRICE, Oxford Mail
Douglas Clark was born in Lincolnshire, 1919. He wrote over 20 crime novels and under other names, including James Ditton and Peter Hosier.
The vicar of Rooksby-le-Soken in East Anglia was found on Monday morning on a classroom floor with a hole through his heart—but no trace of the bullet. Indubitably he had been killed on the spot, the blood on the wall behind him was proof of that.
Detective Chief Inspector George Masters was sent by the Yard to sort things out and decided the method was less important than the motive. From his headquarters in the local pub Masters began his delving into the private lives of the villagers and soon discovered that the vicar was a much unloved incumbent.
No one had a good word for him and quite a number had considerably less than that. The publican and his Italian wife, with an attractive, still unwed daughter of twenty-eight, the local G.P. and his obstreperous son who ran a joint practice, the village carpenter, and the schoolmaster with a grudge, were only a few of the suspects Masters unearthed in twenty-four hours.
In a few days he had raked up enough dirt to put a lot of them on the spot. But in the end it was his capacity for remembering significant details and fitting them into the jigsaw that sorted out the man and the method.
Death After Evensong is book 2 in the Masters and Green Mystery series.
Praise for Douglas Clark
“The many who miss the properly clued inductive detective story will fall on this one with relief” - Times Literary Supplement
“A good, satisfying, competent whodunit, intelligently thought out and believable without unnecessary fireworks of sex or violence. And the answer, when it comes, is much more convincing than the majority of those in thriller dénouements” - ANTHONY PRICE, Oxford Mail
Douglas Clark was born in Lincolnshire, 1919. He wrote over 20 crime novels and under other names, including James Ditton and Peter Hosier.
Reviews
Fantastic
Murder in the Village
This second installment of the Masters and Green partnership is vintage mystery at its best. The murder of a disliked parson in a small country village is anything but dull. Lots of suspects who close ranks...and their mouths... to protect their own. Getting to the solution requires wits, diplomacy and good old fashioned police work. Highly recommended!
Brilliant
I loved everything about it. With a very clever and unique plot and a despicable vicar as murder victim, there was no shortage of suspects. I did guess wrong on the murderer until the very end. Readers who like police procedurals should enjoy this book.
Good book!
This book was interesting, had believable characters and many twists and turns. I highly recommend it to other mystery readers.
A good read on it's own terms
I've enjoyed several Masters and Green mysteries now, and this shares the series strengths. The plot is fine, the solution satisfying, the small village residents adequately various and credible. However, the author didn't master the art of relating the shared elements of his stories (the backgrounds and characters of his protagonists) without merely repeating them, and that repetition does get notable and tedious.
Thoroughly Wonderful Read
As I began reading this book I was unsure if I liked the way it was written but as I continued to read it I found I enjoyed reading it very much!!! I can't believe it is book number 2 and written in 1969 and I've never heard of Douglas Clark! I will be on the lookout for more books by this author.
