Tannat

The book gods chose this 1932 mystery for me via random.org.

So far it's fun and features a guy who was apparently hanged while driving a vehicle in a kind of mad opening scene with snow and a traffic policeman who decides that it must be suicide because of the rope around the guy's neck and so MOVES THE BODY. It's 1932 and the guy was in the middle of a busy street in New York, so I guess suicides don't get photographed?

Fortunately our inspector arrives on scene shortly but it's his companion, Miss Withers, who points out that it can't have been suicide because his cigarette was still lit. Miss Withers trails after her inspector and refuses to wait in the car because apparently the last time she did that she ended up waiting 2 hours outside the registry office until after it closed because the inspector was off chasing a bad guy. I'm not entirely sure of the status of their relationship after that. I mean, are they still planning to get married? I guess I'll see. I don't remember very many details from the first book starring these two, but their second foray seems decent so far.