Review by Nick Fuller
3/5
The story-telling is highly entertaining and amusing, with some good characterisations (principally the schoolboys and girl, the victim and the Stricklands — Superintendent Wilson is his usual colourless self). The dénouement, on the other hand, is a major let-down: the criminal is not one of the main characters, and too few clues are provided to his identity—police procedure takes over somewhat futilely. The complications, while clichéd, are good—Communism vs. Nazism, childish revenge schemes, etc. somewhat marred by too many change of view-points. Shame.
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