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The first Miles Burton I‘ve read, but it has a number of recognisable Golden Age crime tropes – east Anglia and its villages being a bit strange and the gentleman amateur detective. Merrion has a military background – but this time it‘s the navy, which is useful because there is a lot of sailing in this plot. It‘s a bit uneven in places but if you‘ve read a lot these sort of classic murder mysteries it‘s worth a look.