TART BOOK CLUB - The suspicions of Mr Whicker: or the Murder at Road Hill House

[MamaG]

I can't see a thread for this so am starting one, having finished it last week.

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I found it SO hard to make myself pick this book up, it took me an age to finish it and when i did I half wished I hadn't bothered. Maybe I'm just not clever enough

No I sort of agree - I started it thinking "oh this looks interesting" but gradually lost interest and then - at the end just though "oh".

Not an excited "oh". More of a slight exhalation of breath "oh".

Perhaps I just didn't get it either!!

Once I'd got over the disappointment of this not being a novel - 'cos it looks like it should be one from the cover - I actually quite enjoyed this. Sorry! I found the whole development of the detective and how it translated into early detective fiction really interesting.

yes I think I'd have preferred it in novel form. I think I did the same "oh"!

I found it really interesting as I had read about it first. Except the horrible bit at the end when the author forces you to remember that it is about a baby boy and that bit about his hand.

Oh I don't remember the bit about his hand...is that probably best?

yes. it makes me get a lump in my throat even typing it. At the end there's a 'remember this wasn't just a detective story but a murdered little boy' bit and mentions the injuries to his hand (look away now) that were maybe caused when he woke up and tried to defend himself from th knife. Now I'm crying. Oh, I'm so pathetic.