Title: a travelogue of a boring place
Product review: A young writer named Will Porter once wrote that Austin, Texas was "fearfully dull.''In what passes for irony in ``A Twist at the End,'' it turns out that writer was none other than the man who would later be known as O'Henry, and he was about to become embroiled in the investigation of serial killings.Steven Saylor, whose books on a detective in ancient Rome also show off scads of research, clearly wants to write the Texas version of The Alienist. Unfortunately, the books suffers from too many subplots, and far too much of the "look how much research I did'' school of atmosphere.``Fearfully dull" says it all. The ``Twist at the End'' can be seen from about a hundred pages away-- for those who have the patience to stick around.
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