Well-schooled in murder is a crime novel written by Elizabeth George. The novel is a crime novel because there is a mystery and the investigation of the mystery. Crime novels are vey popular because of the always exiting composition. The reader is therefore very curious of finding the mystery solution. Elizabeth George is oddly an American author, which is odd because of the places all her stories and crime scenes take place. They take place in British societies. This particular novel is one her first published books.
At an independent school like Repton, they are very well taught. All the teachers are the best of the best. That would give all the pupils a brighter future with bigger chances of getting success and an exiting career. That is what the title is picturing. Well-schooled draws the line to the boarding school and the rest of the title creates a question for the reader. Is it a murder or is it just a teenage runaway? …show more content…
In this story Lynley gets the case of a missing boy from a Private boarding school in the UK. Repton is the private school the boy attended, he is called by the name, Matthew Whateley. When Inspector Lynley went to exactly that boarding school. By that he knew all the norms, traditions and the atmosphere. The short part that I read of the novel, Lynley and his partner Barbara Havers has just arrived at the school to interrogate the friends of Matthew. The boys were the boys of the same dormitory as the missing boy. An older boy called Chas Quilter escorted them to the room were the interrogation would happen. Chas Quilter was one of the independent schools prefects, which mean that he was in charge of a group of the younger students. Chas was in charge of the dormitory where Matthew