Review by Nick Fuller
3/5
Mitchell's forty-third novel is an entertaining and well-plotted piece, involving boxing and organised crime — sport is often associated with crime in her books, e.g., The Dancing Druids. The inn and village milieux are both good; the courtroom scene both good drama and good comedy, as two daft criminals, Gracechurchstreet and Maverick, are called up to testify. The solution is surprising — good misdirection and reversal of ideas.
Note similarities to both David and Goliath, and to [H.C. Bailey]'s The Sullen Sky Mystery (read it).
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