Everyone In This Bank Is A Thief
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Barton Welch
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I've spent the last few years solving murders. But a bank heist is a new one, even for me. I've never been a hostage before.
The doors are chained shut. No one in or out. Which means that when someone in the bank is murdered, hostages become suspects.
THE BANK ROBBER
THE MANAGER
THE SECURITY GUARD
THE KID
THE FILM PRODUCER
THE PRIEST
THE RECEPTIONIST
THE PATIENT
THE CARER
ME
Turns out, more than one person planned to rob the bank today. You can steal more from a bank than just money.
Who is stealing what? And are they willing to kill for it?
'Nobody from Agatha Christie to Anthony Horowitz beats Stevenson for cleverness. Resign yourself to being stumped, and enjoy.' Kirkus Reviews
'This book is fun. And clever. Like playing a game of Cluedo and watching a heist movie and drinking a glass of whisky at the same time . Benjamin Stevenson has reignited the "Golden Age" of mystery writing, and Ernest Cunningham is a lovable Agatha Christie-esque protagonist.' Australian Women's Weekly
'The fourth entry in Mr Stevenson's zany series gives readers more than their money's worth of shocks and satire.' Wall Street Journal
'A caper that comes with a flurry of ingenious twists and a comedic nudge-and-wink to the reader.' Sydney Morning Herald
'Stevenson's hot streak continues with the fabulous fourth case for Ernest Cunningham . . . As always Stevenson plays scrupulously fair with readers, offering all the evidence needed to solve his devilishly intricate puzzle from the jump. Still, even the most seasoned mystery fans will struggle to beat him to the final reveal. This series continues to impress.' Publishers Weekly
Ernest Cunningham returns!
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New genre for me but really loved it
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Big ups to Barton Welch’s outstanding narration. I couldn’t imagine Ernest’s inner voice any other way. I usually don’t like Australian accents in audiobooks (despite being Australian) but Barton balances ‘Aussie’ and ‘articulate’ beautifully.
The story is what you’d expect from this series: great and believable characters, constant details which turn me inside out deciding if they’re relevant or a red herring, comfortable breaking of the fourth wall and shifts in time and place in order to foreshadow and ‘play fair’ and, of course, more twists than a party size bag of Twisties. It's fun that I’ve never figured out every interrelationship between all the disparate events - even those I didn’t realise were events - when they’re explained in the classic parlour scene (might be the first one I know of being held in a funeral-type parlour room – a very cute touch).
I didn’t enjoy this as much as previous stories in the series as I’m not a fan of the ‘liar revealed’ trope – lying double-downs make me cringe and turn inside out more often than when working out the red herrings! Thankfully it didn’t last long. I appreciated that this book wasn’t exactly like the previous books; not listing page numbers was a small change that seemed a good way to mix it up a bit whilst not messing with the style of the series.
Not usually one to pettily point out errors, this one breaks my heart a little because of Ernest Cunningham’s expertise in classic murder mysteries (and my own devotion to them). In Chapter 11 he refers to the Sherlock Holmes story ‘The Red-Headed League’ and unbelievably gets a detail wrong. He says: “In it, Sherlock deduces that a contingent of burglars has rented out an office beside a bank with the purpose of tunnelling between the two and he waits for them inside the vault.”. I won’t waste space here explaining the error, but no, Sherlock didn’t (though it's close). I can forgive this though because it’s still an excellent book and as Ariadne Oliver says in Cards on the Table: ‘As a matter of fact I don’t care two pins about accuracy. Who is accurate? Nobody nowadays.’.
Another fun, twisty, engaging Cunningham tale
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different interesting funny well written with wit
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He's oly gone and done it again...
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