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Title: Berkeley's weakest
Review: As with all of Anthony Berkeley's works, this is a proper, straight-up whodunnit, the point of which is to set us a detection puzzle, not to elaborate a plausible plot, or to examine the psychology of any interesting or sympathetic characters. On those terms it is successful, but it has rather less charm than is usual with Berkeley, largely because (uncharacteristically), he chose to load this little book with a heavy dose of right wing imperialist apologetics. The result is that this a rather dated, and often a rather irritating novel.
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