The Z Murders
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Tim Bentinck
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Richard Temperley arrives at Euston station early on a fogbound London morning. He takes refuge in a nearby hotel, along with a disagreeable fellow passenger who had snored his way through the train journey. But within minutes the other man has snored for the last time - he has been shot dead while sleeping in an armchair.
When the police arrive, Detective Inspector James discovers a token at the crime scene: 'a small piece of enamelled metal. Its colour was crimson, and it was in the shape of the letter Z'. Temperley sets off in pursuit of a mysterious woman from the hotel and finds himself embroiled in a cross-country chase on the tail of a sinister serial killer.
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- Nick
- 12-11-21
Good solid tale from the era
A good story very much in line with the golden age genre. The narrator does a very good job with consistent voices. A lot of the speech is laboured and ponderous but for all that the plot keeps going.
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- Ian1956
- 18-10-20
It was ok but...
Good overall plot and pace, and (as might be expected) it evokes a sense of the age. but the main character was such a ****. It worked on the basis that if a chap sees a gal who looks in trouble, well that chap is entitled to do whatever he jolly well pleases. Laws, police routine, common sense are as nothing.
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- Christine Holland
- 15-05-22
Superb thriller read beautifully by Tim Bentinck
The story is excellent and extremely well written. Tim Bentinck is a superb storyteller!
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- EGR
- 30-04-21
Probably the worst book in the whole genre
Take a mentally-challenged protagonist and let him buzz around a police investigation, deliberately obstructing it on occasion, whilst achieving nothing himself. Add in a police detective who is not merely sanguine about this, but is willing to waste valuable resources on having him followed. And that's just the start of the silliness.
The protagonist is ostensibly trying to help a girl about whom he knows nothing, and who refuses to tell him anything. For some reason he believes that she needs to avoid the police, so the first thing he does is to unwittingly lead the police to her.
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