Crazy to Kill

by Ann Cardwell

Striking terror in staff and patients alike, murder stalked unmolested through the dim halls of Resthome, a private hospital for the very rich and the very "nervous". And the richest of them, the mystery fan, Agatha Lawson, was to be discharged that day, after a ten-year "visit". Caught in the new excitement of death and intrigue, she stayed on to help the blundering Lieutenant Hogan weed out the criminal from among the inmates.

'It takes a thief to catch a thief,' sagely said Agatha. That sounded sensible to the bewildered detective, who was beginning to doubt his own sanity. Thus, Agatha became a guide to murder. Thus, both she and the Lieutenant set about to discover the secret guarded by Dr. Lennox and his staff with such grim determination.

Here is a gory, murder-filled mystery story, yet so amusingly told that the reader will constantly chuckle - when he is not shuddering!

A rediscovered Canadian classic. What killer is stalking the nervous occupants of Restholme?
". . .one of the most interesting of all the woman protagonists in detective fiction."
-Robin Skelton, Toronto Star

Genres: Mystery

191 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1941

About the author

Pseudonym of Jean Makins Powley

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 1 out of 5]

I agree with the general consensus that this book is rather poor, but it has a great ending. The final chapter does a great job, revealing the culprit and explaining how all the murders were committed. It's too bad the rest of the book was not on the same level of quality as the ending.