#inspector henry tibbett

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Henry sighed, and thought wistfully of the classic murders of fiction: the aristocratic house party, neatly cut off by snow or floods to limit the number of suspects; the multiplicity of unlikely motives and opportunities; the tortuous investigations of the amateur sleuth; and the final denouement, in which the murderer turns out to be the elderly, gentle maiden aunt - beloved by all, but unmasked as a subhuman fiend in the final chapter.

- The Curious Affair of the Third Dog, by Patricia Moyes

[lemongrasslibrary]

Patricia Moyes introduces Inspector Henry Tibbett, an ordinary English copper with a pleasant wife and a nose for the bad guys. Sadly for Henry (but happily for us) that nose has a knack of ruining his vacations. In Dead Men, he and Emmy are headed for the Italian Dolomites, ready for a spot of skiing and some first-class people-watching, all those athletic youngsters in their swanky late-1950s ski outfits. It’s all very “Mad Men” until one dead body turns up, and then another, and it becomes clear that Murder has come to the mountain.