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binaldoshi252 's review for:
Have His Carcase
by Dorothy L. Sayers
Ms Sayers dropped the ball on this one. I wonder if Harriet in this story is supposed to be her - an author in no mood to finish a book well.
Here are the problems:
- It is unbearably long.
- It is ridiculously convoluted. Instead of using anything else, the murderer has to procure a weapon that can absolutely be traced. The murder itself is done right out in the open where anyone can see it. No body commits a murder like this.
- A good detective novels keeps hinting at THE thing several times throughout the novel. Instead, the thing itself and a particular characteristic of the murder are mentioned at the very beginning and never come up again till Ms Sayers looks at the page count and thinks 'My God, it has gone on long enough. Let me wrap it up!'
- Also, if Lord Peter wastes time on a particular object, it HAS to play an IMP part.
You can only ask the reader to accept one ridiculous thing not a bunch of them in sequence.
2 stars solely for Peter and Harriet scenes. It could have gotten intolerable real quick but just when Harriet wants Peter to compliment her, he gets distracted by the murder at hand while still remaining fully aware of why she is miffed. If Peter wasn't written aware and clever like that, he would have come across as pathetic and Harriet plain unlikeable. I also sympathized with Harriet's insecurities after her past.
ps: A certain other character had in fact a bigger reason for doing away with Paul (What a tragic end!)
Here are the problems:
- It is unbearably long.
- It is ridiculously convoluted. Instead of using anything else, the murderer has to procure a weapon that can absolutely be traced. The murder itself is done right out in the open where anyone can see it. No body commits a murder like this.
- A good detective novels keeps hinting at THE thing several times throughout the novel. Instead, the thing itself and a particular characteristic of the murder are mentioned at the very beginning and never come up again till Ms Sayers looks at the page count and thinks 'My God, it has gone on long enough. Let me wrap it up!'
- Also, if Lord Peter wastes time on a particular object, it HAS to play an IMP part.
You can only ask the reader to accept one ridiculous thing not a bunch of them in sequence.
2 stars solely for Peter and Harriet scenes. It could have gotten intolerable real quick but just when Harriet wants Peter to compliment her, he gets distracted by the murder at hand while still remaining fully aware of why she is miffed. If Peter wasn't written aware and clever like that, he would have come across as pathetic and Harriet plain unlikeable. I also sympathized with Harriet's insecurities after her past.
ps: A certain other character had in fact a bigger reason for doing away with Paul (What a tragic end!)