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Yet another locked room mystery. I'm just not very good at figuring these out, so I'm easily entertained. I did have some suspicions about parts of it, but even those were not quite on target.
In this first of the series, Rouletabille is an 18-year old journalist assigned to the case. His real name is not Rouletabille, but men have a penchant for giving people nicknames by which they are forever known. I am unable to find a translation for this word, but he was given it because his head is round ...more
In this first of the series, Rouletabille is an 18-year old journalist assigned to the case. His real name is not Rouletabille, but men have a penchant for giving people nicknames by which they are forever known. I am unable to find a translation for this word, but he was given it because his head is round ...more
I struggled with the audiobook on this one. It just couldn't keep my attention. I also struggled with the characters as Joseph Roulatabille was meant to be 18?! A Journalist but also a genius in problem-solving (ie. detecting). I supposed Sherlock Holmes himself wasn't completely likeable and only rendered so from the humanity imposed on him from Watson's perspective but Roulatabille didn't have a Watson as such. The novel's perspective is from a Watson-like character but unlike Watson, he is no
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