Fly Country: A Golden Age Murder Mystery Paperback – 18 Jun. 2024

Throughly enjoyed the story, 1st time I have read this author, I will look out for more titles to read

I think the obsession with big game hunting made me very uncomfortable I had to remember it was of it’s time. I did have my suspicions but was not exactly sure! Like all good stories a bit of romance as well.

This was one of six books under four pseudonyms the author had published in 1928. I have read four, the best, by some way, being “The Mystery at Stowe”.“Fly Country” is a bit tepid. Like many on the GAD B/C list, it begins promisingly with a young woman setting herself up in business as a kind of financial advisor and being offered a mining prospect in Africa for which she is to find backers. Thereafter it becomes a very obvious mixture of murder, detection,financial shenanigans and romance.C-I Hoe,who also appears in “The Case with Three Threads”, does some work, but it is mostly prosaically reported by him to the heroine Patricia Repton . The hero gads off to Africa and his activities too are relayed mostly second-hand.It is flat and dull and eminently predictable, not a patch on some of the author’s Vernon Loder books. Easy reading but perhaps only for completists.

A very nice mystery thriller, well worth keeping to read again.

I liked this very much. A very fast paced well thought out plot. Well written and enjoyable read with nice background detail.

Another reissue from 1928 from this too prolific author. The first few chapters began well; a seemingly feisty and driven to succeed young woman sets up a financial services company ; quite " advanced" for this time. There could have been a really good book in this scenario.Instead ,there is the faintly relayed trip to Africa; all mining interests seem to fade as do a few other promising leads . The book ends weakly and with too many ends just flung together. As both with Vernon Loder/Henrietta Clandon ( other pseudonyms ) , this is a pale comparison. A must read for keen GAD fans...the price is fair, but otherwise not a very exciting read and not one for newcomers.