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Adult Books - Fiction - Crime Fiction - Mystery
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The Oxford Murders.
Martinez, Guillermo (author).
Oct. 2005. 200p. MacAdam/Cage, hardcover, $23 (1-59692-150-1).
REVIEW.
First published September 1, 2005 (Booklist).
A young Argentinean mathematics specialist studying in Oxford finds lodging with an old woman who worked on the Enigma Code during World War II. The lodger returns home one afternoon to find two surprises: his hero, a mathematics don who has written an acclaimed book on logical series, is on the doorstep, and, when they enter, they find the old woman murdered in her wheelchair. The Oxford don, we learn, has received a note hinting at the murder and calling it “the first of the series.” He fears that the killer may be testing him, thanks to a chapter in his book on serial murders. The notes, with coded messages, keep arriving as more murders are committed. Although the novel is eminently logical in its explanation of sequences and assigned meanings, the way that the police share details of their investigation with the young math student is completely illogical. This should be read for atmosphere and fascinating applications of logical sequences to crime-scene investigation--an extreme extension of Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians. — Connie Fletcher
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