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4.25
This volume and the tale of Poe has finally won me over to the work of Dame Darcy, and I'm again astounded by how good some of the wordless tales are. The version of Titus Andronicus portrayed here is also epic and mind blowing, with utterly amazing art.
It does lose a bit of steam near the end when the bad crime writers like GK Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen and a Lady Molly story appear, which knocks my rating down quite a bit from the first volume. It's still mostly great, especially earlier in the book, and I'm mystified why the two greatest crime writers in history, James M. Cain and Big Jim Thompson, got such short shrift when so many mediocre writers were given 2 or 3 stories (while Holmes was a great character, the writing was awful and repetitive and once you've read the few classic tales by Doyle, you don't need to read the rest, though I once did read an entire omnibus of his work).
It does lose a bit of steam near the end when the bad crime writers like GK Chesterton, Agatha Christie, Ellery Queen and a Lady Molly story appear, which knocks my rating down quite a bit from the first volume. It's still mostly great, especially earlier in the book, and I'm mystified why the two greatest crime writers in history, James M. Cain and Big Jim Thompson, got such short shrift when so many mediocre writers were given 2 or 3 stories (while Holmes was a great character, the writing was awful and repetitive and once you've read the few classic tales by Doyle, you don't need to read the rest, though I once did read an entire omnibus of his work).
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