Mr. Pottermack's Oversight

By R Austin Freeman,

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Mr. Pottermack had thought of everything. He had disposed of the body in a place where no one would ever find it. He carefully, and ingeniously created a false trail to lead attention away from himself. He had even managed, though with some element of luck, to make it appear…

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1 author picked Mr. Pottermack's Oversight as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is an old book, dating back to the Golden Age of Murder between the two world wars, but I felt that in many ways it reads as freshly as if written right now.

This is because I enjoyed being taken into the world of Mr. Pottermack, a likable and essentially decent man who plans to commit a murder. His victim is a bad guy and we are rooting for Pottermack all the way through. I enjoyed watching him work out a scheme that is very clever – it felt rather like watching an episode of Columbo. Unfortunately, Pottermack is…

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