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    The Lake District Murder
    The Lake District Murder
    The Lake District Murder
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    The Lake District Murder

    By John Bude

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    The Lake District Murder opens with the discovery of a faceless body in an isolated garage, then follows Inspector Meredith through a complex investigation where every clue seems to lead only to another puzzle. Was this a bizarre suicide, or something more sinister? Why was the dead man apparently making plans to flee the country? And what does all this have to do with the newly discovered shady business dealings of the garage? All becomes clear in time, but not before John Bude has led readers through a rousing investigation, full of unexpected twists and turns, set against the stunning backdrop of the Lake District.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherReading Essentials
    Release dateDec 3, 2018
    ISBN9781773231327
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    John Bude

    JOHN BUDE was the pseudonym of Ernest Elmore (1901–1957), an author of the golden age of crime fiction. Elmore was a cofounder of the Crime Writers' Association, and worked in the theatre as a producer and director.

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    • 3/5
      I bought this while on holiday in the Lake District in the spring, and was really looking forward to reading a gripping whodunnit with lavish descriptions of the gorgeous fells and lakes in this part of the world.Unfortunately, The Lake District Murder is neither gripping nor brilliant at scene-setting. After the initial discovery of the titular murder, literally nothing happens apart from Inspector Meredith musing long and hard on the hows and whys of the murder and related criminal activity at a local petrol distributor. There are many lengthy, repetitive passages going into great detail about the process of distributing petrol and no character development to speak of. There's no jeopardy at all - the suspected criminals have no idea they're being investigated until the very end. The only real moment of interest is the realisation that the Inspector is barking up the wrong tree with one of his key theories - I quite liked this twist, even if there were more endless technical passages after that point, too.As for evoking a sense of place, well, there are maybe two or three paragraphs that mention the nearby fells and a passing reference to the Inspector having a penchant for fell walking in his free time. And that's it. What a waste of a beautiful setting!
    • 3/5
      This was a very slow read. It was not my favourite of the British Library Crime Classics series. When what appeared to be the suicide of a petrol station owner turned out to be murder, Meredith begins by investigating a petrol fraud that may be linked. What followed was a detailed investigation requiring multiple locations to be kept under surveillance for days. Police budgets were not even mentioned. Neither was breaking the law to get information. Need to search a property? A break and enter will handle that. The fraud investigation continued for so long that even Inspector Meredith had forgotten about the murder. He was not the only one. After filling half the book with the petrol fraud investigation it was found to have no basis and the inquiry took a different turn. Written in 1935 when women seldom had a major role in crime fiction by male authors, their absence is glaring in this yarn. Pity - a woman like Miss Marple would have found the solution much quicker that the ineffective Inspector Meredith. One thing I liked was the name of the petrol company - Nonock.
    • 4/5
      This is another one in the colourful series of reissues of 1930s crime novels, several of them by this author. I've read this on holiday in the Lake District, albeit that this is set around Derwent Water in the north, rather than around Windermere where I am holidaying. The sleuth is again Inspector Meredith, who attempts to solve the mystery by solid gathering of evidence and reasoning; he is a conventional policeman type, no slightly eccentric individual such as Poirot or Miss Marple. The murder mystery is suitably intriguing - a man is found in a car in a remote garage in circumstances suggesting he has committed suicide through carbon monoxide poisoning, but there is of course more behind this. Most of the book though is taken up with Meredith and colleagues pieceing together evidence of smuggling, and while this was a reasonable plot, I thought the story got bogged down with too much technical detail about the transport of petrol and how to distil spirits illegally, so my interest wandered rather. All the same, these are overall satisfying reads.
    • 3/5
      This book was sent to me by Poisoned Pen Press via Net Gallery. Thank you.John Bude’s second novel, originally published in 1935 and reissued as part of the British Library Crime Classics series, is a down-to-the-minute puzzle. A young garage owner is murdered and the scene suggests an attempt to make it appear a suicide. It falls to Inspector Meredith to follow each clue, no matter how implausible, to identify the killer. He does this by noting the movement of each character within a narrow span of time.It is obvious early on to Meredith that the answer to the puzzle revolves around the delivery of fuel to the various garages, hotels and pubs in the area. He soon fixes on one particular lorry and the two crew members. How could the driver and his mate make it from point A to point B in an allotted span of time? How could a tank which holds 1000 gallons of fuel deliver 1200 gallons of fuel?I admit the plot which revolves so much on trucks and fuel deliveries did not hold my interest. I appreciate the fact that in 1935 Britain cars and petrol stations were still a novelty and, therefore, fascinating to a certain audience. The modern reader might find it quaint. Still, as a period piece it was great fun to imagine the main transportation for Inspector Meredith is a motorcycle with a sidecar attached!About two-thirds through the book, the plot does a 180 degree turn into the realm of the highly unlikely. And for all of his timetables and measurements, Meredith’s solution comes down to coincidence and luck.
    • 1/5
      Couldn't finish this one. Very, very tedious and not terribly imaginative.

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