Helen Reilly. Compartment K (1955) I bought this book to add to my collection of stories with a railway setting or motif. I’ve tried reading it three times now, and I’ve given up every time. A man is murdered, the heroine’s old flame (now a married man) is mixed up in it somehow, and shelters in her compartment from the prying eyes of the detectives. The police procedure is sloppy in the extreme; not even the fact that this is a romance rather than a crime novel excuses it. Of course the heroine’s reputation is thoroughly compromised, her fiancé dumps her, and the old lover’s wife dumps him. That’s about as far as I’ve gotten, and it’s been heavy slogging, so I’ve given up. I may finish the book some time, but not now. (2004)
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