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Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide
by Rupert Holmes
Spoilers-?
This was so high concept it was hard to get through- textbook of a secret murder school including 3 case studies one of which is told in journal entries, with asides from the book’s author-? Maybe at a less fraught time I would have had the bandwidth for this but it just felt to me like trying to braid spaghetti. A surprisingly large proportion of the book seemed to be just a vehicle for death/murder puns, and setting it in such an archaic time period (which was stated to be in the 60s but felt much more like the 40s with all the stilted speech and lack of any technology) provided too handy an ongoing excuse for the strategies to work. Basically: it was smashingly easy to get away with everything before ubiquitous cameras, dna testing, instant photo sharing between police departments, etc. which made the culminating achievements of the mcs feel a lot less spectacular.
All in all this book makes you trek a long way for its payoff, and the journey was too disjointed and belabored to feel worth it. Cute idea tho.
This was so high concept it was hard to get through- textbook of a secret murder school including 3 case studies one of which is told in journal entries, with asides from the book’s author-? Maybe at a less fraught time I would have had the bandwidth for this but it just felt to me like trying to braid spaghetti. A surprisingly large proportion of the book seemed to be just a vehicle for death/murder puns, and setting it in such an archaic time period (which was stated to be in the 60s but felt much more like the 40s with all the stilted speech and lack of any technology) provided too handy an ongoing excuse for the strategies to work. Basically: it was smashingly easy to get away with everything before ubiquitous cameras, dna testing, instant photo sharing between police departments, etc. which made the culminating achievements of the mcs feel a lot less spectacular.
All in all this book makes you trek a long way for its payoff, and the journey was too disjointed and belabored to feel worth it. Cute idea tho.