The Case of the Missing Tin Opener by John James Mark
Author: John James Mark
Publisher: Not known
Source book: The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey
We never learn anything about the plot of this detective story but apparently there are three errors of procedure in the first two pages, and Inspector Alan Grant, thoroughly fed up with having nothing to do but lie flat on his back in a hospital bed, spends a pleasant five minutes composing a letter of complaint to the author.
It’s one of the books given to Grant by kind friends to relieve the tedium. And a book we feel he will never read as he gets sucked in to his investigation of whether or not Richard III was responsible for the murder of the princes in the Tower.
In 1990 The Daughter of Time was voted number one in the Top Crime Novels of All Time (it’s an interesting list, and if you ask me, not in a good way) by the British Crime Writers’ Association. Even the Mystery Writers of America voted it number four in the Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. No wonder Inspector Grant didn’t want to read such a generic-sounding detective novel.
You can find the Case of the Missing.... carrot cake, perpetrator, smile, auntie, servant, boyfriend, treasure, moonstone, marquess, all sorts.. books. It has a bit of an Enid Blyton ring to it. I think John James Mark could probably have done better.
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