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tales_from_absurdia's review
3.0
I enjoyed And Then There was No One.
I wasn't entirely convinced at first - Adair came across as pompous and overly wordy, but that's all part of the joke.
There's some really smart metafictional elements in here, as well as some great parody. It got a genuine chuckle out of me now and then.
That being said, the humour is a little too on the nose. A fun read, and I'll definitely check out Adair's Agatha Christie pastiches.
I wasn't entirely convinced at first - Adair came across as pompous and overly wordy, but that's all part of the joke.
There's some really smart metafictional elements in here, as well as some great parody. It got a genuine chuckle out of me now and then.
That being said, the humour is a little too on the nose. A fun read, and I'll definitely check out Adair's Agatha Christie pastiches.
shelleyanderson4127's review
3.0
Better than average pastiche including one of the best take offs on the Giant Rat of Sumatra I've ever read. Well worth a read for both Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes fans.
zefrog's review
4.0
This is the third book in the Evadne Mount trilogy and the best of the lot by far. While the first two were pastiches of Agatha Christie's works (murders in a closed setting with the amateur sleuth solving the mystery), this is a complete UFO of a book.
This time Adair has a go at Sherlock Holmes and, most ruthlessly, at himself. He gets busy wringing all verisimilitude out of his plot in the most meta narrative ever. He has a huge amount of fun in the process and so has the reader. Postmodern indeed!
This time Adair has a go at Sherlock Holmes and, most ruthlessly, at himself. He gets busy wringing all verisimilitude out of his plot in the most meta narrative ever. He has a huge amount of fun in the process and so has the reader. Postmodern indeed!
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