Invisible Weapons

Name: Invisible Weapons
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: John Rhode
ISBN: 9780008268831

Author: John Rhode

Narrator: Gordon Griffin

Unabridged: 8 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 02/08/2018

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Traditional British, Crime, Cozy, Suspense & Thriller, Police Procedural

Synopsis

A classic crime novel by one of the most highly regarded exponents of the genre. The murder of old Mr Fransham while washing his hands in his niece’s cloakroom was one of the most astounding problems that ever confronted Scotland Yard. Not only was there a policeman in the house at the time, but there was an ugly wound in the victim’s forehead and nothing in the locked room that could have inflicted it. The combined efforts of Superintendent Hanslet and Inspector Waghorn brought no answer and the case was dropped. It was only after another equally baffling murder had been committed that Dr Lancelot Priestley’s orderly and imaginative deductions began to make the connections that would solve this extraordinary case.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Puzzle

Strong (if not the best) Rhode mystery. Full review at classicmystery.wordpress.com......more

Goodreads review by John

Three and a half stars. Quite a readable, if slightly long winded and far fetched book. As usual Priestley doesn't appear all that much but solves the crimes by initially suggesting to the police which direction they should be looking in and then taking over himself at the end. I quite enjoyed it but......more

Goodreads review by Theunis

John Rhode is a master craftsman, but a bad novelist. The murder methods are very ingenious. But I doubt if the first method is very practical. I like it when the detective makes cryptic remarks which seem to have no no connection to the murders at all like dr. Priestly does here. The two murders al......more

Goodreads review by Roger

In recent years, there has been a resurgence of interest in previously out of print traditional British detective stories that were written between the First and Second World Wars. This renaissance can be largely attributed to the publishing imprint ‘British Library Crime Classics’, which has succes......more

Quotes

‘John Rhode never lets you down. A carefully worked out plot, precise detection, with no logical flaws or jumping to conclusions, and enough of character and atmosphere to carry the thing along.’FRANCIS ILES in the DAILY TELEGRAPH ‘Any murder planned by Mr Rhode is bound to be ingenious.’ OBSERVER ‘John Rhode well deserves his reputation as a constructor of almost flawless detective story plots. To read any of his tales is a very agreeable intellectual exercise.’DAILY MAIL