Featuring the fictional character Clive Staples (aka ‘Jack’) Lewis as an amateur detective, presented with a mysterious crime.
Kel Richards is a veteran Australian journalist, bestselling author and broadcaster.
A tale that twists and turns in the tradition of the golden age of
English murder mysteries like Agatha Christie. Add [the author’s]
trademark humour and it's an entertaining baffler!
*goodreads*
IT might seem a touch impertinent for a "veteran Australian
journalist, bestselling author and broadcaster" to hijack the very
real C S Lewis (known to his friends as Jack) as his fictional
detective. Readers may feel, however, that writer Kel Richards
could be forgiven as they join Jack, brother Warnie and young
"scientific atheist" friend Tom Morris in 1930s Cambridgeshire
where their holiday is interrupted by the discovery of The Corpse
in the Cellar (SPCK, £8.99). The path to solving the seemingly
"impossible" murder also offers opportunities for Jack to debate
his newly-discovered theological truths with his atheist friend,
resulting in a satisfying, many-faceted piece of holiday
reading.
*Methodist Recorder*
"Somewhere in Cambridgeshire, not far from the County of Midsomer"
is the site of the action in Kel Richards’ The Corpse in the
Cellar: a 1930s murder mystery (Marylebone House, £8.99; Tablet
price £8.10). The oddness of this charming story is in the person
of the chief investigator; CS "Jack" Lewis. When a walking holiday
goes horribly wrong, the great man divides his time between solving
a locked-room murder and explaining the tenets of the Christian
faith to the young narrator.
*The Tablet*
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