Bush, Christopher - The Case of the Platinum Blonde (1944)

Review by Nick Fuller

4/5

A pleasingly detailed village problem with two shootings, to which Ludovic Travers propounds two solutions. The surprise ending is well - clued, but the reader should be able to anticipate it. More complex than most Bush novels, although the complexity comes close to obscurity: half the village is either blackmailing or being blackmailed by the other half, which may be termed excessive coincidence. Better writing than most Bush novels, which came to resemble shorthand notations as he grew older.