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Early 1900s: Can murder really bleaken the gorgoeous landscape of the Lake District?
The Lake District Murder (British Library Crime Classics)
What you need to know before your trail
Inspector Meredith’s latest case looks to be a straight forward suicide but it soon becomes clear that that is not in fact the case. The victim has died in an isolated garage but there doesn’t seem to be any rhyme nor reason for why he should have been killed. None of the obvious suspects have much of a motive but Meredith is not so sure.
‘Luke flung the light of his torch full onto the face of the immobile figure. Then he had the shock of his life. The man had no face! Where his face should have been was a was a sort of inhuman, uniform blank!’
Travel Guide
Golden Age crime fiction comes to the Lake District and it’s a follow the clues kind of mystery to find out not just who did it but how they did it.
The Lake District comes alive on the pages with many of the local town s and settlements in and around the area playing a part. You can imagine the garage in Derwent where the body might be found only after a time. In the hands of a golden age detective, you can imagine Inspector Meredith walking over hill and dale trying to prove who could have killed the man and why. The cover is a great example of why you should judge a book by one as this is a old fashioned travel poster in the colour and style of the time. Very apt and evocative of what is inside.
This is no tourist guide to the setting however as this is the Lake District you don’t normally see – the communities, the people who live there every day and the women who work hard, mending and sewing and going about their daily business.
Bude chooses places like Whitehaven and Maryport for his main settings – and this takes you away from the tourist side of Windermere and the like to delve deep into the Lake District which lies hidden in plain view.
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