The Rasp (Detective Club Crime Classics Ser.)

By: Philip MacDonald

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Synopsis: The Rasp introduces the world to the amazing Anthony Gethryn, an ex-secret service agent, and occasional newspaper correspondent. He is assigned to cover the story of a cabinet minister, John Hoode, who was found murdered in the library of his country house, battered to death with a wood-rasp. Scotland yard has only one suspect Hoode&’s secretary Alan Deacon. But Gethryn is convinced that Deacon did not do it. To prove that he&’ll have to investigate himself and find the real killer. But everyone else who might have had a motive has a cast-iron alibi. Can he crack the case and bring the killer to justice? An ingenious murder mystery. —Kine Weekly I was certainly entertained all of the way through.—Mystery*File a very puzzling case and clever solution.— Arm Chair Reviewer