A Bullet for Rhino by Clifford Witting

A Bullet for Rhino by Clifford Witting published 1950 When I first became aware of the works of Clifford Witting a few years ago I heard good things about this one but couldn’t get hold of a copy by any means. So I’m delighted that Galileo Press has brough it back into print, and it was a really enjoyable read. It has classic GA elements, and is very well-constructed. Mereworth is a very recognisable type of minor public school in the Home Counties, and is having a reunion of Old Boys, complete with a cricket match and an evening entertainment. There are two very important participants: DI Harry Charlton, regular Witting sleuth, who is staying with an old schoolfriend, Sir James Hollander, for the weekend so they can attend together. And ‘Rhino’ Garstang, a frightful man: school bully, now a famous explorer and soldier, but still extremely badly-behaved in all kinds of ways. Colonial to the core. It is perfectly obvious that he is going to be murdered during the weekend, and Witting…