Tuesday 18 February 2020

Golden Age (22) : Scarweather

"Scarweather" by Anthony Rolls is an interesting mystery that spans the First World War. A young man goes missing in a lonely windswept coastal area. After the war his two friends gradually uncover the truth (some fifteen years later) and that a murder had been committed.

The story is told in the first person from the perspective of one of the friends. The other friend doing the bulk of the amateur detective work. The police hardly feature in the story indeed.

The characters are interesting, if rather eccentric in the case of the Professor and the plot a good one but everything takes an age to happen. The story covers some fifteen or so years and sometimes it feels like that reading it. Ultimately the interesting plot and slightly unusual story form wins the day, especially as it heavily involves archaeology.