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No (extra) spoilers here - the overall premise of the book is well publicised. It's only when you start reading it that the utter confusion of the protagonist(s) worms its way into the reader's mind. It cracks along at a brisk pace, the caricatures of the British upper-crustery are well drawn, and the mystery is, well, mysterious. Well worth a look.

Made it half way through this and stopped reading a couple of months ago. The characters are unappealing and their motivations seem vague and vapid. The premise seemed promising but I just couldn't force myself through it.

The protagonist's misogyny and the contrived solutions to the locked-room mystery left me cold after remembered enjoyment of Dave Warner's earlier efforts.

Finding it a bit hard to get inspired by this. Took a week off to read a 1950's mystery...

...now back to this.