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Overall, it's a smart mystery that stands the test of time. May 25, Susan rated it liked it Shelves: center-for-fiction , mystery-england. Trant never joined the other aldermen of Quenborough in their traditional tea break; he preferred to stay in the meeting room and work on his papers. And that's where he was found stabbed to death.

There were several people around, including the inexperienced chief constable Race, but only a very short time span during which the murder must have taken place. Considering the importance of the victim and the suspects, Race calls in Scotland Yard. Jan 10, Jack Heath marked it as to-read Shelves: category-mystery , top-librarything , top-barzun-taylor , top-evans Synopsis: at a meeting of Council, the Mayor is accused by Alderman Trant of wasting money.

Later Trant is stabbed. He scratches out: MA. Pat rated it it was amazing Oct 15, Nick Fuller rated it liked it Jun 26, Lorraine rated it liked it Mar 03, MT rated it really liked it Aug 29, Karyn rated it really liked it Feb 26, Richard A. Seal rated it it was amazing Feb 17, AGMaynard rated it really liked it May 09, Kristina Simms rated it liked it Aug 26, Kathy rated it liked it Oct 15, Susan marked it as to-read Apr 15, Melinda marked it as to-read Mar 01, Nancy marked it as to-read Jun 01, Homerun2 added it Jul 02, Carol Miller marked it as to-read Sep 03, Christophe Van marked it as to-read Jul 08, Igrowastreesgrow marked it as to-read Jun 15, Calum Reed marked it as to-read Jul 13, Jenny added it Aug 01, Wendy marked it as to-read Nov 05, Annie Braddon-miller added it Dec 17, Norma marked it as to-read Nov 29, GST marked it as to-read Nov 14, There are no discussion topics on this book yet.


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We use cookies to deliver a better user experience and to show you ads based on your interests. By using our website, you agree to the use of cookies as described in our Privacy Policy. We can all debate about Humdrums and the crime novel versus the detective story, etc. Why Symons lumps him in with the Humdrums I can't see and no one else who has read Wade can see it either. Symons gives us nothing on which he based his judgment of Wade, so it's very frustrating. They are often treated, with some good reason, and antithetical to each other, but on the other hand they did hold high opinions of some of the same authors, so their differences can be exaggerated Symons himself declared they had no common ground whatsoever.

Both men like Raymond Chandler, for example. Personally I think both men were too dogmatic and am looking for common ground. But the aesthetic conflict between the two certainly produced a lot of colorful sparks.

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By the way, the review is intended to be spoiler-free. Normally I don't like blogging at length about a mystery plot to leave most of the reading experience to the reader, so I can understand your concern. I am trying hard to get Wade's book back in print and currently am talking to both publishers and family members. Very perceptive review of an enjoyable book. Wade was terrific, and much as I admire Symons' judgment, he did get Wade wrong. I've just read The Verdict of You All, published in either or 27 sources differ, so I'm not sure which I think was a really impressive debut.

Some early reviews compared Wade to Crofts, apparently because his second book has a Croftsian alibi problem; but even that one shows more sophisticated treatment of character than Crofts accomplished. Of course, having written a book defending the Humdrums I disagree with Symons on a number of points. Connington together as a "school. Though he didn't really write light manners novels he, like the Crime Queens Sayers, Allingham and Marsh, was interested in making the puzzle tale more like a mainstream novel.

To have missed this, Symond simply can't have had much familiarity with Wade's work and he never indicates what he has read by Wade. I have a few paperback Harper Perennial reprints around here somewhere, but never read any of those. I should've held onto it as I have now discovered it's an ultra rare book in the edition I had - an American reprint with a DJ.

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A very well written article and I agree with your assessment of the under-appreciated qualities of Wade. I am in the process of assembling the Wades so I can read them in chronological order and write a short article for Geoff Bradley's CADs later this year. I am two or three short and it's a disgrace that a first rank crime novelist like Wade is OOP while many not fit to oil his typewriter are easily available.


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One of the aspects of his writing I most admire is the subdued way he uses his extensive experience - military, legal, country pursuits, local government etc without obtruding his own opinions to the detriment of plot or pace. A small regret is hat he did not make more extensive use of war time settings or his cricket career - a first world war crime novel would have been something worth evading though I'd guess the public appetite might not have been there.

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Scott, thanks for the comment. I fully agree. No disrespect to Charles Todd, for example, but when I see people praising the Todd novels, I wish they could read Wade, who experienced the war first hand and wrote about it with great sensitivity and authority. There is movement underfoot to get the books reprinted. Wade not only wrote several of the best puzzle-oriented tales from the period, he was also one of the key figures in the movement to shift the emphasis in the English mystery from the pure entertainment of the puzzle to the more serious concerns of the mainstream novel.

The first of these novels in my view is the superior of the two--it is, indeed, one of the finest detective novels from the Golden Age. Inspector Lott is an older, much less ingratiating version of Poole: sardonic and sarcastic, of presumably lower social origins and more left-wing political inclinations. Wade describes the inspector in The Dying Alderman as follows:. He was dressed in neat black, with a winged collar, black and white tie and pointed shoes.

He looked, in fact, like a Government clerk, of refined education and Fabian tendencies.