From the back cover: Overnight a light-hearted weekend freezes into a deadly game of hide-and-seek... with nine young people subjected to the Ritual of the Dagger and trapped in a remote Suffolk house, a corpse to account for, and Albert Campion at grips with a master criminal.

This was quite a good mystery with plenty of suspense and turns of events. I liked it a lot!

This book is on its way to the next reader as a part of the First Sentences VBB. Happy reading!

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A fast read and a very nice mystery.
The writing is pleasant, if a bit predictable and filled with "old chap" and "old boy" to the brim, and the twists and turns are well handled by the author.
I wasn't crazy about the ending and must admit it felt a bit dull halfway through but then it picked up a bit.

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Picked by the first sentence! Thank you for sending, kizmiaz. A crime mystery! Sounds like it's a classical "Who done it" crime. I'm not sure if I have read any of her crime stories before, I think I will enjoy this one, since I can see it was first published in 1929.

Well, this is really a classic crime story.

If I had read it when it was first published, in 1929, I think I would have loved it. It has everything, a murder in the dark, lots of twists and turns until everything is sorted out in the end. Allingham was one of the early writers of this genre, and I have to remember that in 1929 this was a quite new genre. Lots of the twists and turns of the plot was unfamiliar to the readers.

Now, we are allmost overloaded with crimis, and every plot, twists and turns, has been written several times i several different ways. I have to have that in mind, while reading the book.

With that in mind, I find the book entertaining, and with a surprising solution. Easy to read, easy to forget.

Ready to find a new reader.