The Witching Hour (Dandy Gilliver Mystery)
The Golden Age of British detective fiction lives on in an eternal 1930s. This is the 16th in Catriona McPherson’s Dandy Gilver series which has now reached May 1939. Dandy, an upper-class Englishwoman married into the Scottish aristocracy, runs the Gilver and Osbourne detective agency with her business partner, Alec.
Golden Age authors never tried to be authentic, and The Witching Hour is an unlikely tale set in a Scottish village which unites in an attempt to bamboozle the two sleuths, in order to shield the killer. The victim is the husband of one of Dandy’s closest friends who proves to have a part of his life which Dandy never suspected.
McPherson faithfully recreates the mythical upper-class 1930s world of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers transposed into a Scottish setting, and in so doing gives us a delightful and ingenious puzzle to unravel.
