Nine Strings to Your Bow

by Maurice Walsh

The murder of Mark Aiken still hangs over Peter Falkner, his nephew, who has finally been acquitted after three trials. It is up to Con Madden to wade through such diverse clues as the limping men and the missing fishing rod to get to the bottom of things. - The Mystery Lover's Companion, Art Bourgeau

Genres: Mystery

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1945

About the author

Maurice Walsh was an Irish novelist best known for the short story The Quiet Man which was later made into an Oscar-winning movie directed by John Ford and starring John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara. Walsh was born in 1879 in Ballydonoghue near Listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland. He was one of Ireland's best-selling authors in the 1930s.

Reviews

[Lora · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've had this on my tbr list forever. Finally sat down with it. It was a bit confusing- I really had trouble keeping all the characters straight. And when the main bad guy was revealed- I knew enough to be surprised but still wasn't exactly sure who he was at the same time.
I guess it's been a long time since I read a mystery.
This is definitely a mystery write for men, which is kind of a nice change from some of the others where the tea setting is the main character. Anyway, many great scenes and dialog, great Walsh writing on several fronts. I'm going back to his historical fiction.
Good read, bit confusing with the many characters and their many not-completely-spelled-out back stories, and the hard manly writing of men just clobbering each other when they got mad. Like I said, kind of refreshing.

[Andrew Mead · Rating 4 out of 5]

My word!I

I don’t really need twenty words to describe my feelings about this book. Very good but sometimes the conversations were hard to follow. I wish you had more of his works.