Book: ‘The Scarlet Letters’ by Ellery Queen – June 26tyh, 2016
by Rob Smith, Jr. on Jun.26, 2016, under What's New?
The Scarlet Letters by Ellery Queen
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I love the Queen series. i just picked up another clump of them. This is one of them. However, this is not an example of the reason i picked up so many.
This Queen tale is waaaaaaay too prolonged with an involved MaGuffin that seems orderly enough, but gets monotonous quickly as little else happens involving, what appears to be, a domestic dispute. The story doesn’t make sense unless Queen jumps to too many assumptions. which is something he warns not to do in many of the Queen novels. This is a repeated inconsistency that is the only way the writers could link events, but a flimsy one and one that had me find the entire tale ridiculous.
Due to the prolonged trip through the alphabet, the few characters are very well identified. Odd that the few settings, that are repeated many times, did not have the detail they could have.
The ending is very unsatisfying considering all it took to get to the point. All proving this would have been a far better short story.
Bottom line: I don’t recommend this book. 5 out of 5 points.
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