Ngaio Marsh's The Nursing-Home Murder
I liked this third Inspector Alleyn book less than the first two. It involves a prominent politician who dies while in surgery for appendicitis—and the surgeon and one of the nurses both have personal reasons for wanting him dead (stupid ones), and one of the other nurses is a “bolshie” and also wants him dead (there is some ridiculous stuff with politics in this one), so could it have been murder, and if so, who did it. Blah blah. I’m wondering if all of these books will follow the formula where the inspector makes everyone reenact the crime, which felt more organic in the other ones. I mean this was fine, I still enjoyed the diversion, but not particular interesting as mysteries go. B.
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