October 8th, 2014 – Book: The Case of the Stuttering Bishop’ by Erle Stanley Gardner
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Oct.08, 2014, under Books
The Case of the Stuttering Bishop by Erle Stanley Gardner
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
A very concocted mystery that, if followed carefully, can be a great surprise in the end. I think this would be best to read in one sitting. What didn’t help me is the amount of everything else happening around me from travel to performing. I forgot a couple bits of the book and got a bit lost as the book wound up.
I just had the exact same trouble with the Colin Dexter novel i read before this, ‘The Riddle of the Third Mile’. Both have a series of characters that have similar names, various motivations, disappearing characters, etc. Both are similar in many ways, except, I feel, Dexter rather cheated in the end by a massive kill off of characters that didn’t make much sense. This Perry Mason mystery ends with a rather complicated conclusion due to Gardner not being a killing machine towards the final bow.
Bottom line: I recommend this book.
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