- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; First Edition edition (2 May 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316878383
- ISBN-13: 978-0316878388
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.6 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 645,398 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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By the author of "The Summons". When a rare stamp and a dead body turn up within hours of each other, Detective Peter Diamond heads the case. Both the dead man and the man who discovered the stamp were members of a mystery fiction group, but despite this lead, the case takes many complex turns.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The Bloodhounds are members of a society who meet weekly to discuss crime novels. Naturally there is tension between the members and personality clashes. Peter Diamond - head of the murder team at Bath CID - only becomes aware of the group when one of their number - Sid Towers is murdered, on a locked barge which is the home of one of the other members.
The book follows Diamond's efforts to uncover the murderer and how the murder was committed and the way the Bloodhounds themselves react to the murder in their midst. Then there's a joker who keeps sending riddles to the press about crimes to come and there is more than enough going on to keep everyone happy.
This is a complex plot with some interesting characters and motivations. I enjoyed reading it and would recommend it to anyone who has not read any of Lovesey's Peter Diamond books. It could also act as a reading list for anyone wanting to read more crime fiction as there are many other books and authors mentioned in its pages.
The book follows Diamond's efforts to uncover the murderer and how the murder was committed and the way the Bloodhounds themselves react to the murder in their midst. Then there's a joker who keeps sending riddles to the press about crimes to come and there is more than enough going on to keep everyone happy.
This is a complex plot with some interesting characters and motivations. I enjoyed reading it and would recommend it to anyone who has not read any of Lovesey's Peter Diamond books. It could also act as a reading list for anyone wanting to read more crime fiction as there are many other books and authors mentioned in its pages.
Format:Hardcover
First Sentence: Detective Superintendent Peter Diamond was suffering in the rear seat of a police car scorching toward Bath along the Keynsham bypass with the headlamps on full beam, blue light pulsing and siren wailing.
Peter Diamond is back with the Bath police as a DS in charge of homicide. The media and police receive a poem which seems to indicate that a valuable painting, in the town's museum, by Turner will be stolen. Instead, it is the theft of a Penny Black, one of the world's most valuable stamps. The stamp turns up in the possession of a member of the town's mystery club, "The Blookhounds," and the body of another of the group's ends up on the suspect's boat.
Lovesey's wry humor and use of metaphors is delightful. It is a wonderful send-up of book groups and on-line groups, and I thoroughly enjoyed the all the references to mystery authors and their books.
Lovesey provides a very full construction of each character in very few works. He accurately depicts the pettiness, jealousy and fight for power which seem to be part of any group of people. He clearly exemplifies the tendency of those who are insecure to public degrade others in order to feel better about themselves.
Diamond is a delightful character; he can seem brusque, yet is aware of his flaws and can be kind. I am particularly taken with his very understanding wife, Stephanie, and his young policewoman, Julie Hargraves.
The story provides some interesting, amusing, and lesser known, history about Bath. The inclusion of those small details adds richness to the setting and a variance from the common inclusion of the Roman Baths. It is not all lightness, however, as there is murder and deception. As a John Dickson Carr fan, I found the set up of doing a locked-room, in this case boat, mystery and learning the solution to be fascinating.
The plot was filled with red herrings and twists; so much so, I found the lead-up to the resolution a bit confusing, which caused this to not be my favorite book in the series. I do, however, like the characters enough that I shall continue with the series.
BLOODHOUNDS (Pol Proc-Peter Diamond-Bath, UK-Cont) - G+
Lovesey, Peter - 4th in series
The Mysterious Press, ©1996, US Hardcover - ISBN: 0892966459
Peter Diamond is back with the Bath police as a DS in charge of homicide. The media and police receive a poem which seems to indicate that a valuable painting, in the town's museum, by Turner will be stolen. Instead, it is the theft of a Penny Black, one of the world's most valuable stamps. The stamp turns up in the possession of a member of the town's mystery club, "The Blookhounds," and the body of another of the group's ends up on the suspect's boat.
Lovesey's wry humor and use of metaphors is delightful. It is a wonderful send-up of book groups and on-line groups, and I thoroughly enjoyed the all the references to mystery authors and their books.
Lovesey provides a very full construction of each character in very few works. He accurately depicts the pettiness, jealousy and fight for power which seem to be part of any group of people. He clearly exemplifies the tendency of those who are insecure to public degrade others in order to feel better about themselves.
Diamond is a delightful character; he can seem brusque, yet is aware of his flaws and can be kind. I am particularly taken with his very understanding wife, Stephanie, and his young policewoman, Julie Hargraves.
The story provides some interesting, amusing, and lesser known, history about Bath. The inclusion of those small details adds richness to the setting and a variance from the common inclusion of the Roman Baths. It is not all lightness, however, as there is murder and deception. As a John Dickson Carr fan, I found the set up of doing a locked-room, in this case boat, mystery and learning the solution to be fascinating.
The plot was filled with red herrings and twists; so much so, I found the lead-up to the resolution a bit confusing, which caused this to not be my favorite book in the series. I do, however, like the characters enough that I shall continue with the series.
BLOODHOUNDS (Pol Proc-Peter Diamond-Bath, UK-Cont) - G+
Lovesey, Peter - 4th in series
The Mysterious Press, ©1996, US Hardcover - ISBN: 0892966459
10 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Peter Lovesey's Diamond books never disappoint and this locked room mystery story holds many surprises. The only fly in the ointment is that Mr Lovesey slightly over-edited the denoument - if you are baffled by the final answer, do email me and I'll supply the fuller text which the author kindly supplied to me very promptly when I queried it with him!
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