Darkness At Pemberley

Mystery novel, partly set at Cambridge University, where White himself had recently studied, but also at Pemberley, in Derbyshire. If you are an admirer of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, you might surmise that the name of Darcy comes into the novel.

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Described by T.H. White as a study in claustrophobia and fear. Police Inspector Buller is called upon to investigate two mysterious deaths in a Cambridge College. The Inspector is able to solve the mystery, but cannot find sufficient evidence to convict the clever murderer. The murderer and Buller are reunited when an attempt is made on the life of Inspector Buller's host Charles Darcy at the country retreat of Pemberley. The story climaxes when it is discovered that the killer is hiding within the network of large chimneys--and he has abducted the hostess into the gloom with him.

The story starts in Cambridge, at a college where a don is murdered. We, and Inspector Buller, spend a lot of time wondering about how things were achieved, and which of the many clues laid out so invitingly are the details that matter. After the murderer's gloating revelations, Buller goes off to stay with friends in the country, thoroughly depressed about the Cambridge case because he can't see any way to getting an arrest, and he's nervous about the murderer still being at large. Who wouldn't be? This murderer is as animal-like and vicious as any psychopath, and now he has tasted blood. I'm not giving anything away by saying 'he', because there aren't many women in the story, and only one heroine, with whom the Inspector is in love, so she is a natural target for the murderer's dripping hands.

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