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A review by threerings
A Blunt Instrument by Georgette Heyer
2.0
I got this for $1 in a Kindle sale because I'd never read one of Heyer's mysteries and I like Golden Age mysteries. And it was decent, although the detective has pretty much no personality at all.
And the worst part was that I found the solution of the mystery completely obvious from the very beginning. It is meant to be a mystery that is totally impossible to have been committed until the big reveal that makes everything possible, but I saw that possibility at once. So it wasn't too much fun to read the entire book, increasingly sure of the culprit, as no one in the book has any idea until the last few pages.
So I probably won't be reading more of Heyer's mysteries any time soon, unfortunately. The one part of the novel that was enjoyable was a tiny little romance, which would make sense I suppose.
And the worst part was that I found the solution of the mystery completely obvious from the very beginning. It is meant to be a mystery that is totally impossible to have been committed until the big reveal that makes everything possible, but I saw that possibility at once. So it wasn't too much fun to read the entire book, increasingly sure of the culprit, as no one in the book has any idea until the last few pages.
So I probably won't be reading more of Heyer's mysteries any time soon, unfortunately. The one part of the novel that was enjoyable was a tiny little romance, which would make sense I suppose.