Rating: 5/5
Review:
Still very good
This second volume of Sidney Chambers stories continues in
much the same vein as the first – and thank goodness for that! I like them very much, and I am pleased to
see the quality being maintained.
The book opens in 1955 as Sidney
is required to investigate an Night Climbing death in Cambridge,
along with his friend the excellent Inspector Keating…and you probably don't
want to know much more than that before reading it. The stories all have the combination of
detective work and moral debate which lifted the first volume well above the
huge crowd of current crime fiction.
Runcie continues to write very well in his unfussy style, and I think he
captures the period very well – perhaps better than in the first book, which
suffered a little from 1950s characters using 21st-Century
language. We also get Sidney's
problems of the heart which I think are very well done and very convincing.
What it comes down to is this: if you liked the first book,
you'll like this because it's just as good.
Recommended.
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