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Was It Murder? by James Hilton is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Was It Murder? about?

Was It Murder? deals with the phenomenon of coincidence by posing the question of how likely it is that two brothers attending the same boarding school meet with two separate accidental deaths-and curious ones at that-within the same schoolyear. In the manner typical of the Golden Age whodunnit, the solution is only presented in the final pages of the novel. Throughout the book, an amateur sleuth and a Scotland Yard detective vie with each other to solve the riddle, with only one of them successful in the end. It should be noted that Was It Murder? remained Hilton's only detective novel-a brief youthful foray into crime fiction he shares with writers such as C. S. Forester ( Payment Deferred , 1926; Plain Murder , 1930) and C. P. Snow ( Death Under Sail , 1932). Plot summary: Oakington is one of the lesser-known public schools in England, and Dr Roseveare, its headmaster, has been trying hard for seven years to improve its reputation. When, in the winter term of 1927-28, one of the pupils is killed in his sleep by an old gas fitting falling down from the ceiling he contacts Colin Revell, an Old Boy, to discreetly investigate the matter. Not entirely convinced that there was no

Author

James Hilton

Publisher

HarperCollins (paper)

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060805012

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Mystery, Humanities