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Extremely Short Story!
This is apage short story, A man comes into Scotland Yard at night insisting to meet with an inspector, He refuses to provide any information to the desk sergeant, and barges into the office where he runs into Inspector Rutledge, who has night duty.
He has been mugged, and his daughter has been kidnapped, The perpetrators were the cab driver and two accomplices, who have beaten and kicked the victim before forcing his daughter into the cab and driving away.
He tells Rutledge how he and his daughter had been guests of the Lowery family for dinner, where another guest, Miss Abernathy, regaled everybody with stories of her growing up in Kenya, Africa.
After entering the victim's apartment and seeing how it had been ransacked, Rutledge and the victim visit the Lowery home and speak with the hosts.
They are told about the other guests and where they are staying, Rutledge decides to visit Miss Abernathy at her hotel room, so he and the victim travel there and solve the case within minutes.
The story is wellwritten, but short at only twelve pages, It is more a means for an excerpt from the authors' next novel to be presented to readers in the hope of stimulating more sales, apparently.
Still, I enjoyed it and award four, I was going to read the next novel, anyway, Thin and predictable. Good novella As an introduction to Inspector Ian Rutledge, this novella served very well, Amazing Pretty short, with no real
red herrings, but nice to see the inspector at work in an easy case, It was a short read as it was a short story, but it was still very good, I really love this series, I'm so glad I found it, A Rutledge Novella. Father and daughter are victims of a wellplanned targeted crime, Upon hailing a London Cab the daughter is kidnapped by two accomplices when they arrive home and spirited away in the stolen cab.
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In's London, ayear old girl is kidnapped as her and her father leave a dinner party, Inspector Rutledge solves the case, as he knows someone is lying, Short story. I enjoyed it. Just one little short story, then promotional first chapters of other books,
Beware the ".book" An Ian Rutledge story could never be really bad, but this one just didn't quite make the cut, I should confess that I don't really like short stories , so it would be difficult to find one I really liked anyway, This one wasn't long enough to develop the storyline, and the writers actually FORGOT Hamish! a very short story I highly recommend any of the Ian Rutledge mysteries by Charles Todd.
All of them are well written and the "who done it" keeps you guessing, The main character Ian Rutledge is a shell shocked soldier that survived world warand returns to his job with Scotland Yard, He is a highly likable character, "The Kidnapping," is a short story from the Ian Rutledge series, It shows Ruthledge at his best solving a crime by his wits and brainpower, He can't have all cases that last for weeks or months, Some are short, lasting only a few hours, There is no mention of Hamish in this story, Takes less that a few hours to read because half of the download is a preview of his next book, In an original short story by New York Times bestselling author Charles Todd, Scotland Yard inspector Ian Rutledge must put all his detecting skills to use to solve a baffling case.
A man and his young daughter were returning home from a dinner party when three men appeared from out of nowhere and grabbed the girl.
Rutledge must act quickly to find the child and bring the surprising culprits to justice,
The Kidnapping also includes excerpts from three other Ian Rutledge mysteries: A Lonely Death, The Red Door, and A Pale Horse.
Readers can also find “The Kidnapping” in the anthology TALES: Short Stories Featuring Inspector Ian Rutledge and Bess Crawford.
A short story of Todd's and while it was great it didn't have the character and plot development of his other books.
An Inspector Rutledge short story, this was cleverly written, an entertaining read, and an easy standalone intro to Rutledge requiring no background knowledge of the character who forms the backbone of the series that carries his name.
I can attest to those facts Ive never read a Rutledge novel and found this story quite diverting, If the other short story in the volume I have is equally as good “Cold Comfort”, I may read the first book in the series.
Im intrigued. Short Story A Good Rutledge Short
This is a good Ian Rutledge short story, It is so fast paced that Hamish doesnt make an appearance in Ians mind, But I prefer the novels,
It's a rather quick to solve mystery that is just like Inspector Ian Rutledge, I'm glad there was no melancholy, Charles Todd is the pen name used by the mother and son writing team, Caroline Todd and Charles Todd, Together they write the Ian Rutledge and Bess Crawford Series, They have published two standalone mystery novels and many short stories, .