{"id":18517,"date":"2023-07-27T19:46:27","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T23:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18517"},"modified":"2023-07-27T19:46:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T23:46:27","slug":"the-poison-path-by-solomon-carter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=18517","title":{"rendered":"‘The Poison Path,’ by Solomon Carter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On the beach at Southend, England, <\/strong>a ragtag group of young \u201cguerilla filmmakers\u201d is shooting a movie, one they hope will lead to their big break. Their \u201cstar,\u201d a washed-up, alcoholic TV actor, appears to be dozing by the pier. But he\u2019s not dozing \u2013 he\u2019s dead. It looks as if he fell asleep there the night before and froze to death. But the crime scene investigator notices suspicious signs. This brings in the police team \u2013 Inspector Joe Hogarth and his younger subordinates, Detectives Palmer and Simmons. Then, when Hogarth\u2019s oldest, greatest enemy appears, a villain who\u2019s now a member of Parliament (Tory, of course), Hogarth’s back is well and truly put up\u2014for better or worse. So begins The Poison Path<\/a><\/em>, by Solomon Carter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve read one Inspector Hogarth book before. I found it well-written but rather dreary; the hero is solitary, depressed, and has a drinking problem. This is a later book, and he seems to be doing a little better \u2013 there\u2019s some subdued flirtation with his female subordinate, Palmer. Still, he remains driven, lonely, and obsessed. He\u2019d fit in well in a Scandinavian Noir story, I think. One interesting and unusual element was that our hero is not always right, like so many fictional detectives. In fact, he\u2019s wrong quite a lot of the time. Mostly, he lets his feelings run away with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, all in all, The Poison Path<\/em> wasn\u2019t bad. Not my favorite kind of story, but I\u2019ve got no real complaints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the beach at Southend, England, a ragtag group of young \u201cguerilla filmmakers\u201d is shooting a movie, one they hope will lead to their big break. Their \u201cstar,\u201d a washed-up, alcoholic TV actor, appears to be dozing by the pier. But he\u2019s not dozing \u2013 he\u2019s dead. It looks as if he fell asleep there … Continue reading ‘The Poison Path,’ by Solomon Carter<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[4502,4501,4817],"class_list":["post-18517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-joe-hogarth","tag-solomon-carter","tag-the-poison-path"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18519,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18517\/revisions\/18519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}