Review – The Rasp

The Raspby Philip MacDonaldGenres: Crime, Mystery Pages: 240 Series: Colonel Gethryn #1 Rating: Synopsis: The Rasp introduces the world to the amazing Anthony Gethryn, an ex-secret service agent, and occasional newspaper correspondent. He is assigned to cover the story of a cabinet minister, John Hoode, who was found murdered in the library of his country house, battered to death with a wood-rasp. Scotland yard has only one suspect Hoode’s secretary Alan Deacon. But Gethryn is convinced that Deacon did not do it. To prove that he’ll have to investigate himself and find the real killer. But everyone else who might have had a motive has a cast-iron alibi. Can he crack the case and bring the killer to justice? I picked up Philip MacDonald’s The Rasp because he’s a Golden Age crime writer I hadn’t read yet, and I do love to read even an indifferent classic crime story when I’m in a bit of a funk. This book introduces his series detective, Anthony Gethryn, who ends up being asked to…