CLASSIC CRIME
THE BODY ON THE TRAIN by フランs Brody (Piatkus £8.99, 384 pp)
THE BODY ON THE TRAIN
by フランs Brody (Piatkus £8.99, 384 pp)
It’s 1929. A freight train arriving at Kings’ Cross carries rhubarb fresh from the West Riding. Not so fresh is the 死体 設立する in one of the トラックで運ぶs.
Called in by Scotland Yard to 調査（する） a mystery with 極度の慎重さを要する 味方する 問題／発行するs, 私的な 探偵，刑事 Kate Shackleton （軍隊を）展開する，配備するs her Yorkshire しつけ to expose a 財政上の scam.
It takes in the 軍隊d 終結 of a children’s home, two 殺人s and a 誤った 告訴，告発 that has a young man on 裁判，公判 for his life.
Kate also has to 直面する 脅しs to her own life. What starts as a 戦う／戦い of wills ends as a fight for 生き残り. Fra nces Brody has a remarkable talent for evoking time and place. With a 現実主義の setting, her characters spring to life. This is 罪，犯罪 令状ing of a high order.
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CRIME IN LEPER’S HOLLOW
CRIME IN LEPER’S HOLLOW by George Bellairs(Agora £10.99, 298pp)
by George Bellairs (Agora £10.99, 298pp)
Of the 最近の 復活 of long-forgotten 罪，犯罪 writers, George Bellairs is one to savour. Bellairs, who made his 長，指導者 living as a bank 経営者／支配人, is an 激烈な／緊急の 観察者／傍聴者 of the human 条件 with all its 証拠不十分s. We start with the death of a 裁判官. 狙撃 pheasants in the 注ぐing rain brings on a 致命的な attack of 肺炎.
The question arises, could he have been saved? The gossip is of a 悪名高くも unfaithful wife deliberately 保留するing proper care. But when she, too, 会合，会うs an untimely death along with two of her lovers, a 悪意のある tale begins to 広げる. It 落ちるs to the unflappable 視察官 Littlejohn to delve into a family saga that 反抗するs every norm of 郡 始める，決める respectability.
His 成果／努力s are 妨害するd by a cast of 嫌疑者，容疑者／疑うs variously in the 支配する of 麻薬s, mental 不安定, jealousy and 犯罪の 意図.
MAIGRET AND MONSIEUR CHARLES by Georges Simenon (Penguin £7.99, 176 pp)
MAIGRET AND MONSIEUR CHARLES?
by Georges Simenon (Penguin £7.99, 176 pp)
Georges Simenon was a 急速な／放蕩な 労働者 in more ways than one.
He wrote at 速度(を上げる）. But he was also a self-自白するd 性の predator.
It is this that gives particular significance to the last in a cycle of 75 novels featuring the slow but sure 長，指導者 視察官.
It’s often said that Maigret was the author’s self-portrait, but Simenon is closer to Monsieur Charles, a rich nightclub lounger who 選ぶs up girls for 事件／事情／状勢s, as his wife 沈むs into alcoholism. Could it be that Simenon turned away in self-disgust at the character he had created?
What is 確かな is that with 17 years of life ahead of him Simenon never wrote another Maigret 調書をとる／予約する. Also beyond contentio n is that however unpleasant Simenon may have been, with Maigret he joined the company of truly 広大な／多数の／重要な writers.
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