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A review by ashleylm
De dood van een admiraal by John Rhode, Clemence Dane, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Agatha Christie, The Detection Club, Ronald Knox, G. D. H. Cole, G.K. Chesterton, Henry Wade, Edgar Jepson, Milward Kennedy, Margaret Cole, Victor L. Whitechurch, Freeman Wills Crofts
2.0
Superficially this sounds like a great idea—what's better than one great mystery author? Several great mystery authors!—but no. We don't read books by these authors because their individual sentences are so pleasant, we read them because of their skill shaping the mystery and characters and retaining our interest throughout, and when each write only has to muster it up for one chapter, you end up with very little of actual merit. I read this as a kid, and even then I knew it wasn't one for the ages.
(5* = amazing, terrific book, one of my all-time favourites, 4* = very good book, 3* = good book, but nothing to particularly rave about, 2* = disappointing book, and 1* = awful, just awful. As a statistician I know most books are 3s, but I am biased in my selection and end up mostly with 4s, thank goodness.)
(5* = amazing, terrific book, one of my all-time favourites, 4* = very good book, 3* = good book, but nothing to particularly rave about, 2* = disappointing book, and 1* = awful, just awful. As a statistician I know most books are 3s, but I am biased in my selection and end up mostly with 4s, thank goodness.)