The Lake District Murder (British Library Crime Classics)

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Her remains were found on a mountain at the bottom of a cliff, but no cause of death could be officially given. Once the setting is established, however, it recedes to provide mostly only the convenience of remote and isolated locations for nefarious activity. Published in 1935, The Lake District Murder was Bude’s second book and featured Inspector Meredith who would be the primary detective in most of his mysteries for the rest of his career. Hi Craig, I’m afraid my knowledge of historic novels relating to Cumbria is quite poor, but it could be that someone reading this will be able to offer some ideas for books to get hold of.

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He was a popular and hard-working member of the CWA's committee from its inception through to May 1957.Bird began his murderous spree early this morning after driving to the taxi rank at the centre of the picturesque town of Whitehaven.

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The investigation takes the police officers to some very awkward places and there would be plenty of suspense, with the added chill that in 1935, if the murderer is caught, he is going to be hung. Once Daniel and Hannah suspect connections between Bethany’s drowning and a current sequence of killings, death comes dangerously close to home. Do you know of any books that might be interesting reads that would provide me with the insight I am looking for? She suffocated and he wrapped her body in a carpet, tied it to a block of concrete, drove north overnight from Surrey and dumped it in Wast Water lake in the Lake District National Park.

A show source said the soap, watched by more than 10 million fans a week, could even be off air until next week, saying: ‘Everything is up in the air at the moment. He is willing to use exclamations points as mood indicators, giving the whole a rather more light-hearted feel than the subject matter would suggest. She is a kind hearted woman who makes time for any requests that her clients ask of her, and she also sees something in her new assistant that makes her keep the girl on, and not try to find someone else. He was admitted to hospital in Hastings on 6 November 1957, having just delivered his what turned out to be his final manuscript to his publisher, for a routine operation but he died two days later. Matter-of-fact, bland of surface, plodding in execution - not unlike Inspector Meredith - and it gets the job done in a satisfactory manner.

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In Dead Ground (2021) Poe investigates a man beaten to death with a baseball bat in backstreet brothel in Carlisle. But, as this is a blog about the Lake District, did you know that the area has inspired quite a few novels of its own? With dogged persistence, Meredith keeps investigating, finding small loose threads that he relentlessly tugs to unravel this complex mystery. 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. There’s also a superintendent that gets involved in the case and a sergeant that Meredith usually works with.It started out well, but soon became bogged down in repetitious detail of police procedure and the methods taken to work out how the criminals were doing what it was they were doing. Despite the arch language common to the 1930s, the tenacious Meredith remains quite likeable to 21st century sensibilities, and, whereas police officers in modern-day novels quite often are at odds with their superiors, the camaraderie between Inspector Meredith and his superiors, Superintendent Thompson and the Deputy Constable, Colonel Hardwick, struck me as quite refreshing. In The Windermere Witness, she reluctantly finds herself drawn into a murder investigation after arranging the flowers for a local wedding, and subsequently finds herself involved in fresh murder mysteries in the two novels that follow. They wondered what would happen between Simmy and the policeman that serves as her love interest in the book in future entries in the book.

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I’ve received a few other suggestions over on social media since I wrote this, so I think it’s time to create a follow-up post! It was curious that Clayton should have laid the meal, put tea into the teapot, the kettle on the range and then abruptly left the cottage with the idea of taking his own life. Perhaps because readers in 1935 had not seen several hundred hours of television dramas, every single step of the operation was explained. Written in the 1930s I loved the language and the genteel nature, when the Superintendent says "by Jove opt think you are right" how can you resist? Others keep a watch on suspicious characters and report back to the police, and even children are hauled off, alone, to help with enquiries.

But at least he didn't have the marriage problems that so many men in today's crime novels have- Jackson Brodie, Rebus, Wallander. Muriel Gilpin, 60, postmistress of Arlecdon Post Office, told Mail Online: 'Everybody knows everybody here. Nice sense of place, and of course atmosphere of the 1930s, which is when it was originally written. By the end of the book I was very happy: The Inspector was a fine fellow, the solutions to the murder and the connected fraud case were clever and logical.