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Big Business Murder

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Cole, GDH and M - Big Business Murder (1935)

 

 

Review by Nick Fuller

2/5

An average story, despite the financial setting, which is for once interesting and well-drawn, and featuring many memorable scenes, combining social, political and financial satire — the effect of the murder upon society. There is much human interest (indeed, perhaps too much, to the detriment of the detective story), provided mainly by Jimmie Paltrow’s attempts to get himself hanged (“I want to tell you enough to get myself decently hanged.” “Don’t talk like that, sir. It’d go to my heart to hang a cricketer like you.”) for the murder committed in a block of flats, and solved by Wilson (who appears on p. 176 of 252). Despite a promising impossible crime (with hopes of a deadly booby-trap), the solution is a let-down, and the ending depressing, as everyone is arrested.

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