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Suicide Excepted (Hogarth Crime) (Paperback)

by Cyril Hare (Author)
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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: The Hogarth Press Ltd; New Ed edition (May 1986)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0701206470
  • ISBN-13: 978-0701206475
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,115,352 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Adroit in its manipulation...and distinguished by a plot-twister which I'll wager Christie wishes she'd thought of.' - --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Inspector Mallett's stay at the country house hotel of Pendlebury Old Hall has been a disappointment. Room, food and service have been a letdown and he eagerly anticipates the end of his holiday. His last trial is to sit and listen as the hotel boor, whose family once owned the house, sits down at his table. The next day the man is dead and Mallett unwittingly finds himself investigating the suspicious 'suicide'. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Murderously Good, 28 April 2001
This review is from: Suicide Excepted (Inspector Mallett Mystery) (Paperback)
Cyril Hare's third novel surpasses expectations - much better than WHEN THE WIND BLOWS, and as skilful (in a different way) as AN ENGLISH MURDER. An elderly pessimist apparently kills himself at the third-rate hotel in which he was born, and the insurance company refuses to cough up the cash. The deceased's son, daughter, and her fiance set out to bring about a verdict of murder, thereby inheriting the money. Characterisation is excellent: the son and fiance in particular. The story is very well-plotted; and, despite a surfeit of hotel guests with motives for murder, boasts a very clever and shocking triple solution.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Suicide Excepted, 25 May 2009
By Susan McRae - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Suicide Excepted (Paperback)
This is a great story by a terrific author but the production quality is not good. The book cost £12 which is high for a paperback. It has been edited very poorly and is riddled with typos and grammatical errors. The cover is very thin and curls terribly. The publishers boast about the series but they should be ashamed to produce such poor quality.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars The Trail of the Snail, 23 Dec 2008
By Mr. R. J. Clark "richardjclark" (London) - See all my reviews
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Inspector Mallett is holidaying at a dismal country hotel, where he encounters a dismal and depressed fellow guest, Mr Lionel Davidson, born at the hotel when it was still a private residence, who returns each year to enjoy a walking tour and a little nostalgia.

The next morning, as Mallett prepares to leave, the hotel is in a state: Mr Davidson has been found dead of an overdose. Mallett is a witness at the inquest which returns a verdict of suicide, and Mallett returns to London, thinking he won't hear more of the matter.

Meanwhile, Davidson's (immediate) family is in uproar: Davidson's life policy contains a suicide clause, the insurers refuse to pay, and they're all going broke. Davidson's son, daughter and her fiance decide to challenge the inquest verdict and begin to investigate the affair themselves - with gusto but no elan; the collateral damage is wide-ranging and, by the time Mallett returns in the last chapters of the book to clear everything up, relationships are shattered and another man lies dead. (Mallett's solution will make you gasp!)

It's Cyril Hare, so the witty writing keeps everything bubbling along through what in other hands could have been a much darker tale.

This edition is another in the Faber Finds reissue of all the Cyril Hare novels, for which they deserve all our thanks. However, this novel and a couple of others in the series have been re-typeset, and so suffer from the modern malaise of dodgy (computer?) proof-reading. There are errors sprinkled throughout the text (nine on page 116 alone), with the result that I have an uneasy feeling the compositer is trapped and trying to get a coded message for help out to the readers (I leave it to the fans of Dan Brown to determine what that message might be...).
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great book, bad edition
If you are interested in 1930s' detective stories (I myself am an enthusiast), Cyril Hare is a real find. Not as well-known, and perhaps not as good as, Christie, Sayers, etc. Read more
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