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This is more of a 3.5 than a 3, it's the last chapter of the book where the detective stands up in front of a drawing room full of suspects and waxes lyrical. Only this time it's a murder club and there are six sleuths trying to out do each other. My dad will like this one more than I did :)
What knocks of a star is the god awful fan fiction chapters at the end of the kindle version. The story was done, it was perfectly well done and acceptable. did not need other authors, no matter how well kno ...more
What knocks of a star is the god awful fan fiction chapters at the end of the kindle version. The story was done, it was perfectly well done and acceptable. did not need other authors, no matter how well kno ...more
I really liked the premise of this one; six members of a detection club each come up with their own theories as to who is responsible for a box of poisoned chocolates which found their way to Mrs Bendix.
A very satisfying read.
A very satisfying read.
How fun was this? Most of the book takes place around a table as the six members of the Crimes Circle Club put forth their individual solutions to a murder by chocolate. I thought I had the solution myself, but it turned out to be only the third from the last solution. Thoroughly enjoyed this as motives and suspects changed as each detective came up with a different solution ... and each solution made sense ... until it didn't. Anthony Berkeley was a master of the puzzle mystery during the Golde
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