Darkness at the Stroke of Noon

by Dennis Murphy and Dennis Richard Murphy

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554683211
• ISBN13: 9781554683215
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Harpercollins Canada
• Length: 381 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Action Packed Page Turner

Darkness at the Stroke of Noon is an action packed page turner. The choice of setting makes it a uniquely Canadian tale, as do the references peppered throughout the book - Tim Hortons and Canadian Tire. I laughed out loud at Ruby's view of Canadians... "At forty-one, she didn't feel too old for a fight, although fighting Canadians seemed like the punch line of a bad joke. They were just French-speaking wannabe Americans who spent their winters in Florida getting melanoma until they ran home for free operations." Dennis Murphy has done an amazing job in envisaging a diary of the Franklin expedition. This is a story on it's own. Back to the present - it's bitterly cold, the light is shorter every day, the food is running low and someone in the camp is a murderer. I enjoyed many of the supporting characters, especially the local doctor who acts as a coroner and her assistant. Their dialogue over the autopsy table is blackly humorous. I finished the book and was hoping that this was to be the first of a series. Reading the back flyleaf I was saddened to find that Dennis Richard Murphy passed away just before publiction of Darkness at the Stroke of Noon.