Colonel Donoughmore is not popular with his fellow anglers at the Tremarden Arms in Cornwall, so when he is late returning from a day of fly fishing no one is really bothered. And when he is found “Dead as Cornish Laamb. He were found in river the mornin’.”, the local police aren’t too concerned either. …
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Indeed, he read very little except detective stories, which he devoured at a rate of one a day. Ronald Knox, The Motive
