Book Review : The Window at the White Cat

This was a 2.5 stars rounded up to three stars as there isn’t a wholesale massacre of characters in the story.

The White Cat Club of the title is a members club integral to the politics and poker-playing of the town / city of Plattsburg.

The narrator is a lawyer called Jack Knox who lives with his married brother, Fred, Fred’s wife and their two boys in a nearby city called Manchester (USA not UK).

Knox falls for a woman called Margery Fleming who visits his lawyer’s office when her father, Allan Fleming, disappears without a trace.

Fleming is soon found, shot in the forehead, by a window at the White Cat Club.

Whodunnit?

This is a tricky one case for Knox to investigate, as lots of people are in the club at the time of the shooting and no one heard a shot, though there were lots of cars backfiring in the street outside and there was a thunderstorm in the vicinity too. No one saw anyone with a gun in the club and there were people in the room with Fleming when he was shot, yet none of them did it. And it wasn’t suicide.

Another character wanders off too, diverting the reader to consider that this disappearance and the murder are connected…