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b00kdrag0n40 's review for:
A Study in Scarlet
by Arthur Conan Doyle
Watson meets Holmes and chronicles their first adventure together. An excellent mystery for the first part, but the transition to the backstory was abrupt, the second part dragged along, and I had several issues with the tail end of the second part and then with the third. Why on Earth did Lucy and her father wait so long to flee? Why would the Holy 4 muck around with a month long count down? Why after hearing of Lucy's marriage didn't Hope attempt to rescue her rather than just wait a month for her to die? Why does Hope bother eating the pills himself? The choice between the poison and the harmless pill was a nice idea, but there's no need for Hope to risk poisoning himself. And Mormons should be incredibly offended by the backstory. I appreciate Doyle's attempt at a unique style in interrupting his mystery to provide a context and attempt to sympathize the reader with the murderer, but I think the mystery would have fared better if it maintained the style and pace of the first half.