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Austin, Hugh

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Hugh Austin was a British writer about whom little is known.

 

 

I started to read Hugh Austin's It Couldn't Be Murder (1935), which had been highly praised by Torquemada.  Torq's normally a very reliable and astute critic, but I got halfway through before deciding not to continue.  The problem is that Austin can't write - his style is horribly clumsy, with short, jerky sentences alternating with bathetic purple prose.  Has anyone else tried to read Austin and failed?

Nick Fuller

 

Bibliography

It Couldn't Be Murder (1935)

Murder in Triplicate (1935)

The Upside Down Murders (1937)

The Cock's Tail Murder (1938)

Lilies for Madame (1938)
Drink the Green Water (1948)
The Milkmaid's Millions (1948)
Death Has Seven Faces (1949)

 

 

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