A review by lizdesole
The Inventor and the Tycoon: A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures by Edward Ball

3.0

Although it was a fascinating story at heart, the writing style marred the story for me. It is about Edward Muybridge, the man who invented moving pictures. Oh, and he also happens to be a murderer. So far, so good. My problem was that the language in the book had a tendency too much towards the flowery. It almost seemed as though the author submerged himself too much into the times and felt he needed to write it as if it were the late 19th century. I do read and enjoy novels from that era but here it felt forced