Advantages: Original plot, intriguing characters, mystery to keep you guessing until the end. Disadvantages: The author has an occasional tendency to use some very obscure words.
The Incendiary's Trail is provides a fresh opportunity to enjoy London as a scene of Dickensian squalor, with suitably grotesque characters and an intriguing and original plot. I very much appreciated the author's skill in teasing the reader with solutions to elements of the mystery in the course of the novel, rather than waiting until the last few pages to reveal all - and there was always plenty more to keep me intrigued and racing to the end. ... ...and the setting of London's new detective force in its infancy, but with all the excitement and mystery surrounding the murder and none of the dullness. Don't get me wrong: I am a fan of Mr Whicher but I feel the book is constrained by the need to stick to the facts: one friend described it to me as 'so boring, and yet so compelling' which I think is pretty accurate. As a work of fiction The Incendiary's Trail is not thus constrained and that means ...
helenstuff 25.08.2009
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