Book - The Postmaster's Daughter

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The Postmaster's Daugter
Louis Tracy
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Book Description

John Menzies Grant, having breakfasted, filled his pipe, lit it, and strolled out bare-headed into the garden. The month was June, that glorious rose-month which gladdened England before war-clouds darkened the summer sky. As the hour was nine o'clock, it is highly probable that many thousands of men were then strolling out into many thousands of gardens in precisely similar conditions; but, given youth, good health, leisure, and a fair amount of money, it is even more probable that few among the smaller number thus roundly favored by fortune looked so perplexed as Grant. Moreover, his actions were eloquent as words. A spacious French window had been cut bodily out of the wall of an old-fashioned room, and was now thrown wide to admit the flower-scented breeze. Between this window and the right-hand angle of the room was a smaller window, square-paned, high above the ground level, and deeply recessed - in fact just the sort of window which one might expect to find in a farm-house built two centuries ago, when light and air were rigorously excluded from interiors.

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There was a phase in my life when I liked all these "someone-or-whoever's Daughter/Son/Mother/Father" titled books. This one didn't let me down, but it wasn't what I expected.

An interesting mystery that kept me thinking a lot, too. Because of the old English used, sometimes I wasn't sure if the conversation was actually meant to be funny or if it was just me finding it funny.

Wally surely was an interesting chap. Loved the two London detectives too.

I would have thought the Postmaster's Daughter would have a more prominent role in the book - as in, searching throught letters or telegrams to help solve the case, but alas, no.

The English could take a little time to get used to, but overall not a bad read!