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2.0
This could have been a much better story. Deene is asked to investigate an apparent suicide. The dead man is the nephew of a rising populist politician. But the way Deene (and in fact the writer) treats the suspects as all being somewhat dim was really annoying. The identity of the killer was never much of a mystery either. I guess he thought the reader was dim too.
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