Literary Significance and Criticism
| “ | The 22-year-old heroine undertakes, as the surviving partner of a crummy and none-too-credible inquiry agency, to find out why the son of a famous scientist committed suicide. The task brings her to Cambridge, where she gets friendly with a quartet of young people who provide her first lead. After that, all is watching, asking, suffering attack and suspicion, and finally conspiring to conceal crime. In the last few pages Chief Inspector Dalgliesh learns the truth and also keeps it quiet. Barely passable. | ” |
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