Saturday, April 22, 2017

The Crime Coast - Elizabeth Gill


Paul Ashby is off to the south of France for a vacation.  Before he leaves, an old man falls down the steps outside his flat.  He brings the man in for a drink and a chat to make sure he's recovered.  When the old man, Major Kent, finds out he's off to the French Riviera, he asks him to look for his son, Adrian Kent.  Adrian is an artist who's disappeared after the his older lover is murdered.  He's a prime suspect and the fact that he's disappeared makes him look even more suspicious.

On the train, Paul shares a compartment with a lovely girl, but she runs off when he asks if she knows Kent.  Once along the coast and settled in his hotel, he begins his detective work.  He meets Benvenuto Brown and discovers that he's trying to find out who killed the woman that Adrian's suspected of killing.  He knows Adrian well and knows that he didn't do it.  He also knows the beautiful girl on the train, Adelaide Moon, also an artist.

Paul and Ben (Benvenuto) team up to find Adrian and the killer.

Elizabeth Gill only wrote three mysteries before her death from complications of surgery when she was in her early thirties.  I enjoyed this book.  I have the author's other two mysteries and am looking forward to reading those.  They were all written in the 1930s, a period I like.


6 comments:

  1. I've never even heard of Elizabeth Gill but I think I would like her books, another name for the list!

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    1. I think she's worth reading. I bought the three mysteries as e-books from Amazon for only a few dollars each. There's not much I won't try at those prices!

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  2. The story sounds fascinating and that cover is very interesting. I had not heard of this author either, so I looked her up and one of the books is set on an ocean liner, I think. That sounds good too.

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    1. I read this as an e-book, so I found the photo on line. Since she only wrote three books, I bought all three as e-books without knowing anything about them. I'm looking forward to reading the one on the ocean liner. Although you'd never catch me on an ocean liner, I like them in theory.

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  3. New to me too, Joan! I'll look up those books! Thanks.

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    1. Not all of these reprinted Golden Age of Crime books are worth it, but I've enjoyed most that I've read.

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