Title: Gideon Fell fans stay away
Product review: This books mindless "mystery" and painful attempts at farce seem pathetic compared to Carr's other smart Gideon Fell mysteries. The characters are as flat and wooden as they are thinly developed and the plot is as forgetable as any movie of the week. I also believe that the true crime is putting Gideon Fell in maybe 5% of a Gideon Fell mystery. Unforgivable. This story seems like it was to never actually meant to be a Fell mystery and his character was tacked on when perhaps it was thought that this book would not pass muster on its own. ( it doesn't) Enter at your own risk. Better yet read The Mystery of the Green Capsule or the Three Coffins instead for a couple of great Gideon Fell mysteries.
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