Carol S. (waucondacarol) reviewed Calamity in Kent (British Library Crime Classics) on + 319 more book reviews
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I found this a slow moving mystery with too many coincidences. It begins with newspaper man Jimmy London recuperating in the seaside town of Broadgate taking his usual morning stroll. He comes across the tram operator dazed and nearly incoherent because he has found a body locked in the tram behind a padlocked gate. It is a locked room mystery and London is determined to solve it. Scotland Yard Inspector Shelley, an old friend on the scene visiting the local police chief, and London pool resources to solve the murder, a second murder a copy of the first, and seemingly unrelated black market actions.
