A review by lsneal
With a Bare Bodkin by Cyril Hare

4.0

A charming mystery set in WWII England, centered around the people working for England's regulatory department on...pins. Spending their days amidst Byzantine bureaucracy in a remote Great House, and their nights at a guesthouse during blackout hours, the characters become steadily more enmeshed with each other, and addicted to what they call "The Plot," a group attempt to write a mystery novel, which naturally ends up with one of the characters dead. I enjoyed our hero, a somewhat dusty bachelor solicitor, very much.