Connington: A Minor Operation
The affair of Hazel Deerhurst’s strange disappearance becomes a puzzling case for Sir Clinton Driffield. The police might have believed her brother’s statement that Hazel had gone for a holiday if it weren’t for that splash of blood on the drawing-room floor. Slender clues are given: love letters written in Braille, grains of red powder, what the missing woman was wearing . . . Was it foul play? Or is Hazel involved in a larger scheme? Review This mystery novel by Connington is treated with exactly the right mixture of mystification and clue. (Burlington, VT, Daily News , 1937)
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The affair of Hazel Deerhurst’s strange disappearance becomes a puzzling case for Sir Clinton Driffield. The police might have believed her brother’s statement that Hazel had gone for a holiday if it weren’t for that splash of blood on the drawing-room floor. Slender clues are given: love letters written in Braille, grains of red powder, what the missing woman was wearing . . . Was it foul play? Or is Hazel involved in a larger scheme? Review This mystery novel by Connington is treated with exactly the right mixture of mystification and clue. (Burlington, VT, Daily News , 1937)
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