Showing posts with label John Russell Fearn. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 19, 2022

The Fourth Door by John Russell Fearn


The solution to this one was... weird. There were some fair clues but this was mostly really, really interesting. Like, this was the dawn of psychiatry being used in mysteries but... really wrongly. I don't have a record of why I put this on my TBR shelf so who even knows. At least it was short(?)
Elva is going to be a maid at a great house. She is fair of face but one leg is significantly shorter than the other. That doesn't mean that she isn't trying to marry the man of the manor. And she does. But then the house his brother, his twin, is living in burns down. And that's on the same night that the brother's fiancee is murdered. 
There are so many twists and turns in this book that it becomes overly melodramatic but it was still worth a listen.

Three stars
This book came out in 1948
Audiobook I own
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