Book: ‘The Case of the One-Eyed Witness’ by Erle Stanley Gardner – September 4th, 2017
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Sep.04, 2017, under Books
The Case of the One-Eyed Witness by Erle Stanley Gardner
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
‘The Case of the One-Eyed Witness’ by Erle Stanley Gardener bugged me plenty in the end. As I read through the book I thought I was steaming to a socko ending. Instead it was more of a smelly sock.
Gardner slowly ambles through a perplexing number of events that seem to go nowhere or connect. The story, characters, settings seem good. Then comes the ending. All that stringing along and Gardner couldn’t unstrung some and better spell out conclusions in a better planned story. There’s a lot of fluff to get through to have the narrative at the end undo a bunch and retell to a conclusion that couldn’t have been figured out until the last few pages.
The writing is, otherwise, good. It’s the plotting that is pure stinky socks.
Bottom line: I don’t recommend this book. 3 out of ten points.
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