Book: ‘The Flight of the Falcon’ by Daphne du Maurier – June 2nd, 2018
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.02, 2018, under Books
The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne du Maurier
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
I do like du Maurier’s writing a lot. This book is very well written. It’s the plot and layout of the story that is not well thought out.
This book starts out with someone coming across someone they that looks familiar and some thing more occurs. Lo and behold, that familiar one turns up dead. The someone who saw the familiar now seems to remember who the dead one was and goes off to find out what happened. The someone is a tour guide, not a detective, but du Maurier wants to show off her knowledge of the scenes of Italy again. The device is a bit much. Moreover, it all tipped me off who did what and why and who was wh’s mother. It was all obvious to me. That really kills a book for me.
Her writing makes up for some of that. But this could have been more tightly written and cut away a lot of trivial stuff that helped me know along the way my conclusion had to be correct.
A weak mystery in a heavily written book.
Bottom line I recommend the book: 6 out of 10 points.
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