The Cornish Coast Murder, John Bude
The Cornish Coast Murder is an entertaining enough story, with the murderer being actually guessable (mostly because I looked for the character who was mentioned but seemed not to have a motive, but sshh) and some rather fun interchanges between the Vicar and the Doctor, crime fans extraordinaire. It has a good sense of place and nothing’s too fantastical, and it classically has killed off a person no one really cares too much for, which makes it fine as a cosy.
It’s definitely fun enough to make me think of picking up more of Bude’s work — I think there’s more republished in the British Library Crime Classics editions, at least. If not, maybe I wouldn’t go out of my way for it, but as it is it’s enjoyable.
And I still like the mental image of the Vicar crawling around the place with strings to get the trajectory of the bullets.
I’m guessing John Bude is a pseudonym, for obvious reasons connected the setting of this mystery…
His birth name was Ernest Carpenter Elmore, but I think he just used a pseudonym because that wasn’t exactly catchy!
Perhaps Ernest Carpenter Elmore would sound too much like a fictional character in a cosy mystery?!
I don’t know why but I just love this style of book cover!
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Yeah, the whole series looks really great!