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The Whistling Hangman (The Duncan Maclain Mysteries) Kindle Edition

by Baynard Kendrick (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

What seems like an unfortunate fall turns out to be far more disturbing, as a blind detective discovers, in this mystery from the author of The Last Express.

Following the loss of his sight in World War I, ex–intelligence officer Capt. Duncan Maclain honed his other senses and became one of the most successful and well-known private investigators in New York City . . .

Wealthy businessman Dryden Winslow spent over twenty years self-exiled in Australia, but he’s recently returned to the United States. He’s staying at Doncaster House, a luxury hotel in Manhattan, where he’s rented out six suites for himself and his estranged family. Given Winslow’s weakened heart has him on the verge of death, the hotel staff are on high alert, knowing he could drop at any moment. Of course, no one expects him to drop from his balcony . . .

Captain Maclain is playing chess with the hotel manager when a startled housekeeper reports her account of Winslow’s accident, claiming she heard whistling before the fall. Stranger yet, when Maclain examines the body, he declares Winslow was hanged. Now, with his seeing eye dog at his side and a hotel full of secrets, Maclain sets out to prove his case. It’s a lofty goal and, with a lunatic killer still roaming the hotel, a dangerous one too.

Baynard Kendrick was the first American to enlist in the Canadian Army during World War I. While in London, he met a blind English soldier whose observational skills inspired the character of Capt. Duncan Maclain. Kendrick was also a founding member of the Mystery Writers of America and winner of the organization’s Grand Master Award.
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    The Duncan Maclain Mysteries
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    270 pages
  3. Language
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  4. Publisher
    MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
  5. Publication date
    February 23, 2021
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08QRLV448
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ MysteriousPress.com/Open Road (February 23, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 23, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5.3 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 270 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

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  • Patto
    5.0 out of 5 stars A sinister whistle precedes murder in a luxurious Manhattan hotel...
    Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2018
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    A fabulously rich man arrives in New York after twenty-two years in Australia. He houses himself and his whole family in a grouping of apartments in elegant Doncaster House. Dryden Winslow is very ill and predicted to die soon, so it’s odd that he gets murdered. Even odder is the murder method.

    Captain Duncan Maclain, who’s friends with the hotel manager, surprises everyone by declaring Dryden Winslow was hanged — although superficial appearances suggest he simply fell from his balcony. Weirder still, the killer whistles before he kills!

    Maclain is an unusual private investigator. Blinded in the war twenty years earlier, he slowly trained all his senses to the point that he “sees” more than most sighted people. He also has a prodigious memory and a strategic brain.

    I’ve read a couple of other book in this series and loved them. The investigating is intermingled with demonstrations of Maclain’s sensory superpowers, and this is fun. Also fun are the two police detectives who partner with Maclain. Inspector Davison in particular is given to despairing wisecracks, as the case appears more and more impossible to solve.

    The Whistling Hangman was first published in 1937. It offers not only an inexplicable murder method, but also an extended family of suspects some with dangerous secrets, plus a hotel with plenty of hiding places. The mystery is intriguing, and the atmosphere of a luxury hotel in the thirties is fascinating. There are plenty of tense moments, and Maclain’s attack dog plays an important role.
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  • L. Dalzell
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Blind detective in the 1940s
    Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2021
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    I loved this series since 1971-72 series Longstreet, starring James Franciscus, was shown and I saw the series was based on the books by Baynard Kendrick. At the time about 6 books in the 14 books were printed in paper and now all 14 are out on Kindle. I am slowly buying the entire set. They are about Duncan Maclain, a blind detective in the 1940s, and were written at that time, so the stories are old fashioned. I like them a lot.
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