![]() ![]() ![]() Misunderstood, unloved, ignored by her parents Lucinda desperately wants to be noticed. The two, Lucinda and Vanya, make for a devilish and manipulative couple - Vanya moreso than poor Lucinda. They will pretend that a poltergeist is haunting the home. The book opens with two young people plotting a vicious prank. There is an group of suspects shut up in a snowbound mansion, talk of ghosts, a haunted room that could have come from a book by John Dickson Carr, a verbal dying clue picked up by a mimicking parakeet, and an ingenious impossible crime. But this penultimate case for Basil Willing is very much a traditional whodunit loaded with tropes from the Golden Age of Detective fiction. Her post World War 2 books played with the espionage genre and the straight suspense book which she would completely embrace in the 1970s. ![]() Splitfoot is in many respects a throwback to McCloy's first book Dance of Death. Although published in 1968 and with only a trace of the 1960s present in the person of two very modern young people Mr. ![]()
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