The Maze

Cleverly reasoned working out of a murder from a coroner's inquest testimony alone. It is brief, and benefits from its brevity, as it's hardly gripping fare reading testimony from the residents of the house in which the murder takes place. But there are sly injections of insight into the characters, and although there are one or two less than politically correct issues with the way the testimony is conveyed, it is from 1932, so some allowance must be made. Philip MacDonald is a neglected writer, and this is odd, as the books of his I've read have been very satisfying.