Reviews for Phantom of Blood Alley (Barnaby Grimes Series #4)

The average rating for Phantom of Blood Alley (Barnaby Grimes Series #4) based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-04-21 00:00:00 Svein Kyrre Ludviksen Review to come.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-04-14 00:00:00 Joshua Kaatz Barnaby at his best! While I thought that the main piece of the mystery was easy to solve, the tension and death count kept this a very enthralling read. Barnaby takes an even more detective-like role than ever before, on behalf of a wrongly accused character, and it's nice to see him in this element. Innocents must die of course and the killer is a thoroughly dastardly character. Barnaby's brush with death is particularly scary and gruesome and his savior a rousing hero. I found the explanation for the various acts of villainy to be more reasonable than any of his other mysteries and this made it a better story for me, although the lack of a more exotic element may be less appealing to kids. I'm sorry that this is the last of the series. The end of the book alludes to another upcoming case but this book was published quite a few years ago with no additional volumes.