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Articles by Margot Bennett
SOMEONE FROM THE PAST
An acerbic, tightly structured whodunit that remains a brilliant example of how to do more with less. Bennett’s last crime novel, originally published in 1958, is in many ways her finest. It’s certainly her most sharply focused. Alarmed that a series of anonymous threats she’s been receiving have escalated, London magazine editor Sarah Lampson asks Nancy Graham, her old roommate and colleague at Diagonal Press, to help figure out which of her former lovers is intent on killing her.
THE WIDOW OF BATH
by Margot Bennett ‧ A disgraced underling of the British Embassy meets up again with his betrayers—but this time the danger’s not to him. While he was stationed in Paris during World War II, Hugh Everton refused a proposal from Freddy Ronson that he do a bit of illegal smuggling in return for some cash that Everton needed very much. Next thing he knew, he’d been fished from the Seine and was on his way to prison.
THE MAN WHO DIDN'T FLY
Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been.
Criminally good writing
Jeremy Black reviews The Man Who Didn’t Fly, by Margot Bennett From the point of murder, the last few days have not been marvellous. Possibly summer humidity has left me jaded, or writing a history of logistics simply very tired, but I have found it difficult to engage. And yet such varied prospects were on offer in terms of targets, means and accomplices; and most of the time in a fug of decent alcohol and many smokes. Two attempts I abandoned: ennui or the small print of modern life?
CalPERS and CalSTRS must stop investing in weapons that slaughter our children
The pop-pop-pop of an automatic assault rifle is a bone-chilling sound that does not belong in our schools or workplaces. Yet it happens every few days in America. In just the first three months of 2018, 76 have been killed and 205 wounded in mass shootings. Too often the weapons used are the AR-15 and other guns designed solely to kill people.
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