A Fine and Private Place

by Freda Davies and Ellery Queen

Book Overview

Back in 1940s wartime Gloucestershire, a young Gl stationed at the village of Tolland disappears. Fifty years later a skeleton is unearthed, bearing the Gl's name on the dogtag buried beside it. In... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0575007486
• ISBN13: 9780575007482
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: World
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

good but not perfect start

I agree with most of the other reviewer's points: solid writing, but somehow not wildly engaging. I also found the continual trivial discussions by local townfolk tiring, am tired of good cop/bad cop plots (but at least the bad one isn't the boss of the protagonist!), and there were too many minor characters who would reappear with some important tidbit, and I would forget who exactly they were.However, I think it makes a good start of a series. There really aren't enough "cosy, but not too cosy" British police procedureals for me, and this one was solid, enjoyable and not annoying to me.