Patreon Post: Blowdown (1940) by Lawrence G. Blochman

I bought this book many years, possibly as long ago as 6 (eek - I know!), but at long last I picked this title up from my TBR pile. I wasn’t sure what to expect with this one, only knowing the author’s name, whilst not having a sense of their writing style. Similar to Mabel Esther Allan’s Murder at the Flood (1957), which I reviewed earlier this month, the author uses a weather phenomenon as a plot point. Hurricanes (a.k.a. a blowdown) are even less common than floods in crime fiction, I would contend, with only one other example springing to mind, Murder on the Tropic (1936) by Todd Downing.