Survey of Mysteries and Crime Fiction

sturlington: Done for MysteryCAT.

MissJessie : Just didn't like it.

aulsmith: Although there is a mystery this is more of a thriller, a genre I don't like

aulsmith: I had a tough time getting threw this and really disliked it when I was done.

aulsmith: I got tired of MacDonald fairly quickly but this was one of the first ones I read, and I enjoyed it.

aulsmith: Didn't make it to chapter 2.

sturlington : Too dated for me.

aulsmith: The mystery is almost secondary to everything else, but I loved it anyway.

sturlington : Not available at library

aulsmith: I didn't get through this one. Again it seemed more of a thriller.

sturlington: Not at library

aulsmith: Alternate history

aulsmith: Not only a good mystery, but a good novel about the end of World War II in England.

bluepiano: Wonderful mystery lacking the English village,the quirky detective, the police procedure, and the solution.

bluepiano: It has the unexplained murder, the medical examiner, and the investigator, but it's also refreshingly odd and has funniest opening pages I've read.

aulsmith: The first of the Brandstetter mysteries

bluepiano: Unformulaic mystery. Very much not formulaic.

bluepiano: There are detectives and there is a mystery but the book's much more original than that.

aulsmith: Not Nava's best, but the beginning of an excellent series.

bluepiano : There are deaths and there is ambiguity, but that doesn't mean it's a mystery. It isn't.

aulsmith: This is the first Nero Wolfe. Stout wasn't quite up to speed yet.

sturlington : Someone added the original; please vote for that one instead.

aulsmith: I thought this was more of a thriller than a mystery. Maybe if I had started earlier in the series I would have loved it as much as other people do.

aulsmith: Hansen is great, but start at the beginning of the series.