The Test Match Murder

by Alfred Tack

216 pages, Hardback

First published January 1, 1948

Reviews

[Gerry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cricket at Lord's ... but before the Test Match takes place, two players are murdered. As the squad is housed at a country hotel prior to the game, did one of the other players commit the crime? Author George Brent is recruited to assist the police in discovering who committed the murders and in an enthralling tale he only discovers the perpetrator in the last few pages.

And as for the Test Match, it was won by ... Sorry, read and enjoy it to see!

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

This period-piece from 1948 concerns the shooting, whilst he was bowling in the nets of a country-house, of English Test-cricketer, Wilfred Sinclair, of which murder team-mate Cary Winton appears guilty. With the Second Test looming, detective novelist George Brent is employed by a newspaper to help solve the crime and he and his secretary, Sally, are mystified until a late breakthrough. Plenty of smoking, a very different moral universe, class issues and a little cricket provide for quite an endearing read from a time now long past.