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A Fine and Private Place

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Fitt, Mary - A Fine and Private Place (1947)

 

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Not the best Fitt.  She does a good job of making the narrator suspicious, creating a sinister atmosphere because the character who would normally be the reader’s identification figure can’t be liked or trusted—particularly not by the heroine (named Mary), who believes that he is a rogue on the make, a thief, a drug dealer, and responsible for murder.  ***The red herring's name is unblackened.  The real culprit (a homicidal colonel) is someone I didn’t suspect, but the plot is fairly arbitrary.***

 

·        Opens like a Gladys Mitchell: young hiker gets involved by accident in a mysterious situation.

·        First person narration by Thorneycroft and by Mary.

 

Nick Fuller.

 

 

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