An earlier book, I think, than 769 and 771 above. Plot more compressed which I thought was good, but also very convoluted towards the end. Burden’s bullying of the (in his mind) chief suspect leads to a horrific, but ultimately just conclusion – the suspect is driven to murder his mother who is in fact the perpetrator of the murder he is accused of.
These books are a bit transitional between the old fashioned murder mystery in which the main detective (here Wexford) unravels events by dint of superior intellect, and the more modern ones in which there is no such omniscience. But quite readable, nonetheless. (This was my father’s and I see a note that he finished it on 15 April 1989.
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