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"Darling mother," he was saying, "I really was frightened as to whether you would mind. I couldn't help remembering how you received Mr. Taynton's proposal that you should go for a drive in his car. Don't you remember, Mr. Taynton? Mother's nose did go in the air. It's no use denying it. So I thought, perhaps, that she wouldn't like my having one. But I wanted it so dreadfully, and so I bought it without telling her, and drove down in it today, which is my birthday, so that she couldn't be too severe." Mr. Taynton, while Morris was speaking, had picked up the nutcrackers the boy had been using, and was gravely exploding the shells of the nuts he had helped himself to. So Morris cracked the next one with a loud bang between his white even teeth. "Dear Morris," said his mother, "how foolish of you. Give Mr. Morris another nutcracker," she added to the parlor-maid. "What's foolish?" asked he, cracking another. "Oh Morris, your teeth," she said.
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One does not normally associate E. F. Benson with crime fiction, which was a comparatively new genre at the time this story was written. By modern standards the story creaks and the solution seems obvious almost from the beginning, but it is an interesting insight into how he detective story evolved.
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One of Benson's weaker stories
13 Aug 2011
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One of E.F. Benson's favorite themes in his crime and suspense fiction is the seemingly genial and kindly older man who masks a range of crimes behind his amiable exterior. Sometimes he is an otherwise decent individual who falls into a crime of greed and opportunity, while other times he is criminally insane or what today we would call a sociopath.
It is nearly always a younger man who is the victim of his plotting and the older man takes advantage of the trust the younger has in him.
In this novel, though, Benson's touch for characterization and observation are not at their best and even more, are diluted by the novel's unnecessary length. The suspense declines over time rather than growing and Benson seems to fill in the time by repeating elements of characterization rather than building on them.
Worthwhile for Benson fans but not of as much general interest as his other suspense novels are.
It is nearly always a younger man who is the victim of his plotting and the older man takes advantage of the trust the younger has in him.
In this novel, though, Benson's touch for characterization and observation are not at their best and even more, are diluted by the novel's unnecessary length. The suspense declines over time rather than growing and Benson seems to fill in the time by repeating elements of characterization rather than building on them.
Worthwhile for Benson fans but not of as much general interest as his other suspense novels are.
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