The Loring Mystery
(Jeffrey Farnol)
This book must of sat in our old bookcase unread for over forty years,
which is a shame as it is really good. A Regency mystery come detective
novel written in the twenties with the American market in mind I should
say. The hero David is a American from Charleston , Virginia who comes
to England as the heir to a great fortune and nearly gets murdered and
ends up in the Thames, rather following the beginning of Our Mutual
Friend and The Hound of The Baskervilles to start with. Then he is
helped by a Bow Street detective called Mr Shrig and other Cockneys
whose accents are comically emphasised before they all head off down to
Sussex and meet a load of yokels and dashing gentry . Then it turns
into a whodunnit mystery with a haunted mansion and secret tunnels all
set amongst beautiful descriptions of the countryside and the Arthur
Conan-Doyle figure of Mr Shrig chasing up clues and motives everywhere
and saving the hero from villains who are out to get rid of him, with a
particularly tense moment at a ruined watermill in a dense and spookey
wood.
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