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A review by johnnyb1954
The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White
4.0
I haven’t seen the movie “The Last Vanishes” so the mystery was unspoiled going on. However the means of Miss Froy vanishing is obvious as soon as it happens.
It seems a cliché. But clichés come from somewhere and I think it’s from here.
Earle Stanley Gardner used a very similar device in one of his Perry Mason mysteries written after this book. Christie and others have similar trickery. I’ll credit White with originating it in absence of any research on my part.
The reason for the disappearance is only vaguely understood in the end (by me anyway).
White does a good job of teasing possible safe outcomes and then pulling them back. The suspense is not exactly unrelenting but strong enough that it kept me reading.
Interestingly, iris briefly mentions a story she heard about a missing woman, and Hitchcock used that story in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
3.6 rounded up
It seems a cliché. But clichés come from somewhere and I think it’s from here.
Earle Stanley Gardner used a very similar device in one of his Perry Mason mysteries written after this book. Christie and others have similar trickery. I’ll credit White with originating it in absence of any research on my part.
The reason for the disappearance is only vaguely understood in the end (by me anyway).
White does a good job of teasing possible safe outcomes and then pulling them back. The suspense is not exactly unrelenting but strong enough that it kept me reading.
Interestingly, iris briefly mentions a story she heard about a missing woman, and Hitchcock used that story in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
3.6 rounded up